Vegan Pumpkin Spiced Cake
The vegan pumpkin spiced cake at Emmett’s woodland themed birthday party last weekend was a hit! We realized recently that he loves pumpkin so when I was trying to decided on the type of cake for him, it seemed like a natural fit.
This recipe was mostly thrown together on a whim. For the actual cake part, I just kind of adapted other recipes I use. I have a muffin recipe and a banana bread one that I always turn to that use apple sauce and honey and I love how moist they stay (Ew, I know. That word sucks. Sorry.)
So, I mostly just made minor tweaks to random recipes I found online, and since my daughter can’t really do dairy, we just happened to have vegan butter in the house and… voila! Here we are! Talking about vegan pumpkin spiced cake.
The cake itself is more just vanilla – the pumpkin spice comes in the icing. This makes it a subtle pumpkin flavour that’s not too overwhelming.
Shall we?
Vegan Pumpkin Spiced Cake
FOR THE CAKE:
2 1/2cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups raw cane sugar
1/2 cup vegan butter
1 1/2 cups almond milk
1/2 cup unsweetend apple sauce
2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
FOR THE ICING:
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup vegan butter
2 tbsp almond milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp (heaping) pumpkin spice
Instructions
+ Preheat oven to 350.
+ In a large bowl, mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt
+ In a separate bowl, using a hand or standing mixer, combine the butter and sugar together. Then add milk, applesauce, vinegar, and vanilla to the butter/sugar mix and stir to combine
+ Combine the wet and dry ingredients and stir until everything is mixed.
+Pour into greased cake pans. I used 3 6″ pans for this! Bake for approx. 35 minutes. Once finished, leave to cool!
For the icing: simply mix everything together!
Once the cakes have cooled, slice the top “dome” part from each cake to help make them flat for stacking. Spread a generous amount of icing on the top of each cake and stack. Use the leftovers to spread as desired!
If you’re using this recipe for a larger cake, I honestly couldn’t tell you the cooking time, but if you google “how long to bake different size cakes”, a neat little chart will pop right up for you.
What are your favourite pumpkin spice recipes? If you have any of your own, leave the links below! XO