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Easy One Bowl Strawberry Cake. Vegan Strawberry Cake with whipped coconut cream or strawberry beet buttercream frosting. Vegan Spring Cake Easy Strawberry Cake Recipe. Pin this post.
Strawberries are appearing all around. All ripe and pretty and delicious. What do you do with the load when you are tired of eating them as is? Make cake! This cake is adapted from my 1 bowl Orange Cake. Easy, tasty and ready within minutes. Blend up the strawberries with non dairy milk. Add to the bowl of dry flours, mix and bake.
For more pink color, add some cooked beet along with the strawberries in the blender. Serve the cake with lightly sweetened whipped coconut cream and strawberries or strawberry preserves. For a frosting, blend soaked cashews with strawberry preserves, a good pinch of salt and vanilla to a frosting consistency. Or make vegan buttercream frosting with the preserves + beet puree. Frost the cake and decorate with fresh strawberries! We finished up this one with some masala chai every evening.
I use 1/2 cup non dairy milk and a loaded cup of strawberries for the wet in the cake. You can also use just strawberries. Use 2 cups of chopped strawberries, puree and use instead of the 1/2 cup milk + strawberry puree.
More cakes from the blog
- 1 bowl Orange Cake
- Cream Cheese Marble Pound Cake
- Basic Vegan Yellow Cake
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
- Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate PB Ganache
- Gingerbread Cake
The cake is incredibly moist and soft. For stronger strawberry flavor, blend in some strawberry preserves along with the fresh strawberries or make a layer cake with the preserves between the layers!
1 Bowl Strawberry Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Dry:
- 1 cup whole wheat flour , or pastry flour
- 1/2 cup unbleached white flour, or all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp starch like cornstarch or arrowroot starch
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Wet:
- 1/2 cup non dairy milk
- 1 cup chopped ripe strawberries (loaded), scant 1.5 cups
- 1 tsp white vinegar, or use apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup unrefined or raw sugar
- 2 tbsp oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F / 185ºc. Line or grease a cake pan. In a bowl whisk all the dry ingredients really well.
- Add all wet ingredients except oil to blender and blend until smooth. Add the blended puree to the dry bowl. Add oil. Mix to make a smooth batter. Transfer the batter to the cake pan and even the top with a spatula if needed.
- Bake at 365 degrees F / 185ºc for 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick from the center comes out clean. It depends on the pan, oven and moisture content of the strawberries.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan and cool on the wire rack for another 10 minutes or longer before slicing. Serve with whipped coconut cream and fresh strawberries or strawberry preserves.
Notes
Add 2 tbsp strawberry preserves or more strawberry flavor. For a layer cake: Divide the batter into 2 cake pans to make thinner cakes. Layer with strawberry preserves and frost with your favorite pink frosting. Easy frosting: blend soaked cashews with strawberry preserves, a good pinch of salt and vanilla to a frosting consistency. Nutritional values based on one serving
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can I use regular sugar instead of raw sugar? Also can I double the recipe? Some recipes turn out gummy when doubled.
yes use any sugar.
Doubling a recipe sometimes needs additional changes. You have to keep track of the batter and see if it needs additional flour to adjust. Baking time also increases if the pan size increases. Gummy results are usually because of under baking (the cake needed more time to bake) or because wet ingredients balance is more than the dry.
This was easy and delicious – thanks for a great recipe. I made this in a heart shaped silicone mold, greased with olive oil in the misto, and they popped out beatifully. My non-vegan kids ate ’em up!
If making cupcakes, do I grease the paper muffin cups? If so, what do you recommend? Thank you!
what kind of oil for the cake?
what kind of oil?
Your cake looks amazing and I plan to make it as an option for my daughter’s 8th birthday party next weekend! To make it healthier, I’m hoping to use date sugar and flaxseeds in place of the cornstarch. Any thoughts on how much flaxseed to use and whether it may cause trouble?
you might want to make a test batch like a half or quarter recipe to see if the date sugar will affect the texture and flavor. You can use 1 tbsp flaxmeal.
for the cashew frosting, how many cups of cashews and strawb jam would I need? making for my daughters first birthday 🙂
3/4 cup raw cashews soaked for atleast an hour in warm water, 1/3 cup refined coconut oil, melted,1/2 cup jan, a good pinch of salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. taste and adjust sweet by adding sugar
Hi, would this work for cupcakes? Do I just decrease the cooking time? I’d really like to use this recipe for my daughter’s 1st birthday this weekend!
yes u can. bake 24 to 27 mins
Hello! I will be trying this cake soon. Do all the strawberries need to be blended? I like a little chunk of fruit. 🙂 I love so many of your recipes! You have been a great help to my slow conversion to vegan. Thank You!
Yes blend the given amount. You can chop up a few more starwberries and fold it in the batter and then bake.
This strawberry cake looks positively scrumptious, and you photographed it so beautifully too! I’d so love to try making it, but is there any way it could be made with baking powder instead of baking soda? If that is a viable option, I’d be so grateful if you could let me know the correct amount of baking powder to use in place of the 3/4 tsp baking soda called for in your lovely recipe. Also, with regard to the 1 cup whole wheat flour or pastry flour called for, I was wondering if I should use whole wheat cake and pastry flour or white unbleached cake and pastry flour. I’d so appreciate any advice about which flour would be best to use here. (I think I’ll be opting to use 2 cups of frozen strawberries rather than the 1/2 cup of milk + strawberry puree.) I really hope I’ll be able to achieve the gorgeous colour and delectable texture seen in your photos! Thank you so much for sharing this and so many other great recipes.
Use 2 tsp baking powder instead. You can use any of the flours you listed. People have reported that the cake turns out berrier with a combination of berries, so you may want to try a cup of strawberries and a cup other mixed berries.