MOIST One Bowl Vegan White Chocolate Cake
The ultimate vegan white chocolate cake recipe that doesn’t taste vegan! It’s entirely dairy free with a fluffy vegan white chocolate cream cheese frosting and easily decorated to be a fun and festive holiday cake!
The most moist white chocolate cake that just so happens to be vegan:
This is truly my favorite white chocolate recipe ever, hands down. And it’s entirely vegan?! Seriously, no one would know. In fact, every time I make it, everyone is shocked that it’s dairy free.
Based on my top rated vegan vanilla cake, we have a super tender and moist white chocolate cake that’s entirely egg free, dairy free, vegan, and can be gluten free. It’s topped with a fluffy and easy dairy free white chocolate cream cheese frosting, and decorated for the ultimate vegan Christmas cake.
Next to my vegan Yule log cake and vegan red velvet cake, this is one of my favorite holiday cakes to make.
I personally can’t stop eating it once I have a slice. The white chocolate works so beautifully in creating a really light yet tender cake that truly just tastes magnificent.
If you make any vegan cake recipe this holiday season, let it be this one!
And if you’re looking for a more year-round white chocolate cake, try my vegan white chocolate raspberry cake (and white chocolate cupcakes!)!
But is white chocolate vegan?
I’m sure you probably guessed it, but regular white chocolate is in fact not vegan. However, there are some great store bought vegan white chocolate brands on the market.
My personal favorites are both Enjoy Life Dairy free white chocolate chips and Milkless Polar Dream White Chocolate.
The Enjoy Life I purchase at my local Whole Foods, but both can be found on Amazon.
I also really like Rawmio, but it is more caramel in color. The flavor is spot on though!
How to make a white chocolate cake from scratch
Like my other vegan cake recipes, you can make this white chocolate cake into an 8″ cake, as I did, or a 6″ cake. Just keep in mind that your 6″ cake layers will need to bake a bit longer, as there is more volume in the smaller cake pans.
Making this vegan white chocolate cake is just like any other cake (and vegan cake for that matter!). The recipe card down below contains the full directions, along with the ingredients.
However, let’s go over some tips for ensuring that your vegan white chocolate cake tastes absolutely amazing (and that people will be in shock when you tell them that it’s vegan!):
- Melt the white chocolate before beginning the cake: this ensures that the white chocolate isn’t piping hot when it goes into the batter, which will drastically alter the texture of the cake while it’s baking. You want to make sure that the white chocolate is essentially room temperature to touch. To melt white chocolate, you can melt it in increments of 20-30 seconds in the microwave or via stove top over a double-boiler.
- Measure out all of your ingredients before beginning: the reason being is that once the liquid hits the baking powder and soda, the chemical reaction that gives a cake its rise begins, and you’ll want to move those cakes as quickly as possible into the oven. It also makes for a less stressful baking process, and ensures that you don’t miss anything!
- Make sure your cakes are completely cool before decorating: trust me, it is NOT a fun process for a cake to land on the ground because the layers were too warm when you iced the cake!
How to decorate a vegan Christmas cake
My all time favorite part of any cake baking process is the decorations. I wanted to give this white chocolate cake a Christmas theme, as I’m making it for the holidays and I tend to enjoy vegan white chocolate more in November and December.
I have two versions of decorations, but obviously let your creative juices flow! The updated version of this cake features piped snowflakes on top of the cake- I personally LOVE this.
My original version features a polar bear and snowman out of marzipan dough. The lovely part about marzipan is that it’s completely vegan and is so much like modeling chocolate. I also added on top my mini vegan gingerbread houses that I made from my vegan gingerbread cookie dough, and these cute little tree figurines that I picked up at Michael’s.
You can decorate this white chocolate cake however you please. Maybe you want to melt some more vegan white chocolate and create a drip effect on the top of the cake.
Or maybe you want to make a little igloo out of marzipan! I think cakes are like a blank canvas, and you just have fun!
If you make this cake, let me know down below in the comments section, as well as giving it a rating so that others may find it.
As always, I absolutely love to see your beautiful creations on Instagram and Pinterest, so be sure to tag me there!
Happy white chocolate cake baking!
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One Bowl MOIST Vegan White Chocolate Cake
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 35
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 16 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
The ultimate vegan white chocolate cake recipe that doesn’t taste vegan! It’s entirely dairy free with a fluffy vegan buttercream and easily decorated to be a fun and festive holiday cake!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup (300 mL) dairy free milk
- 3 2/3 cup (450 g) all-purpose flour (or gluten free 1:1 baking flour + 1 tbsp arrowroot or cornstarch)
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 3/4 cup (350 g) granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup (175 g) salted vegan butter (melted) or neutral oil
- 3/4 cup (175 g) dairy free yogurt, room temperature
- 1/2 cup (113 g) vegan white chocolate, melted and cooled to room temperature
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract (yes, 2 tablespoons!!)
- Optional (but recommended): 1/4 tsp vanilla powder
Vegan White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 batch vegan cream cheese frosting
- 1/2 cup (113 g) vegan white chocolate, melted and cooled to room temperature
Instructions
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease three 6″ cake pans or 8″ cake pans with cooking oil, and line them with parchment paper. Set aside. Make sure the vegan white chocolate is melted and cooled to room temperature before beginning.
- Whisk the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.
- Make the batter: In a large bowl, whisk together the vegan butter/oil, dairy free yogurt, sugar, melted vegan white chocolate, and vanilla extract. Add in the flour and dairy free milk, and whisk JUST until combined, being careful not to over mix the batter.
- Bake: Divide the batter between the three cake pans evenly, and bake for 35 minutes in 6″ cake pans, or until the toothpick comes out clean. (for three 8″ cake pans, bake for 27-30)
- Cool: Remove from the oven and allow the cakes to cool in their pans for 10 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely. Once cooled completely (there is absolutely no warmth to the touch!), then you can prepare your buttercream.
- Make the cream cheese frosting: Prepare the cream cheese frosting as instructed. Then add in the additional vegan white chocolate (melted and at room temperature), and whisk until combined. You can add in 1 tbsp of cornstarch in addition if your frosting is not thick enough. This is why it’s so important to make sure your vegan butter and cream cheese is not too soft!
- Frost and decorate your cake: Assemble and frost your cake! Pipe designs or follow the blog post for different ideas on how to decorate your vegan white chocolate cake.
- Serve and enjoy! Slice and enjoy. Store any leftovers in an airtight container for up to 4 days in the fridge.
Notes
Gluten free: I recommend King Arthur measure for measure gluten free flour.
White chocolate: See blog post for recommendations on different vegan white chocolate brands.
I used Evolved white chocolate bars from Whole Foods. White chocolate cake was my birthday cake every year until I went vegan. Happy to add this recipe to my collection so I can continue that tradition!
Oh that’s wonderful!! Happy birthday!! Enjoy, and thank you for the review!