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Vegan Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Pumpkin Ganache. Easy 1 Bowl Pumpkin Sheet Cake with a thick chocolate frosting. Vegan Soyfree Recipe. Can be nut-free. Glutenfree option Jump to Recipe 
Cakes make for a perfect end to a festive meal or beginning a day :). This simple spiced vegan pumpkin cake is paired with a smooth hearty thick chocolate pumpkin ganache. The cake is made in 1 Bowl, without added refined sugar, and only takes 15 mins to put together. The frosting is just chocolate and pumpkin, no Butter, no cups of sugar! Simple ingredients, quick and festive!
Make it with less sweet for a breakfast cake. Double the recipe for a layered pumpkin spice cake! Add a sugar frosting layer in the middle and chocolate pumpkin all over. Top with candied pecans or serve with whipped coconut cream. More the merrier.
Mix all the wet ingredients, then fold in the dry to make a thick cake batter. Spread in parchment lined pan and bake. Brush with maple + water mixture for additional moisture. Then spread the ganache. Don’t like chocolate, use my vegan cream cheese based frosting.
More Festive Bakes
- Cinnamon Swirl Cake
- Eggnog Pound Cake
- Easy Coffee Cake – Cinnamon Streusel Cake
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
- Lemon blueberry pound cake
Gluten-free
- GF Cashew Butter Chocolate Marble Cake.
- Gluten-free Cinnamon Roll Bread yeast-free.
- GF Carrot Banana Bread – Also grain-free.
- Sweet Potato Crumb Cake. GF
If you make this cake, do let me know by commenting and using the rating option with the comment.
Vegan Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Pumpkin Ganache
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree, , not pumpkin pie mix
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut milk, , or use almond milk
- 2 tbsp oil, , optional or use more non dairy milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice, , add 1/2 tsp cinnamon for additional spice
- 2 to 3 tbsp sugar for sweeter, (coconut, cane or brown)
Dry:
- 1.25 cups flour, (I use a mix of all purpose and whole wheat)
- 3 tbsp almond flour, , or use more flour for nutfree
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Ganache:
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp almond or coconut milk
- 1-2 tbsp sugar, , optional
Instructions
- Line a brownie pan or 8 or 9 inch cake pan with parchment. Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (180 C).
- Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until just about combined. The batter will be thick. Spread evenly in the prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 mins. 5 mins less or more depending on the pan used. Taller cake will need longer time. Check with a toothpick inserted in the middle. It should come out clean. For muffins or cupcakes, bake for 20 to 22 mins.
- Cool for 5 mins, then remove from the pan and cool completely before frosting. At this point you can optionally brush the cake with a mix of 1 tbsp maple syrup+ 2 tsp water(mix well in a small bowl). This keeps the cake more soft and moist.
- Make the ganache: Heat pumpkin puree and milk over medium heat until bubbling hot. Add chocolate, whisk for a few seconds, then take off heat. Continue to whisk until all the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Cool for 5 mins then chill for 15 mins to thicken. Then then spread over the cake. Add other garnishes such as chopped hazelnuts, coconut or candied pecans. Serve. The frosted cake can be refrigerated for upto 4 days. Frozen for upto a month
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I absolutely LOVE this cake. Do you think it could be done with all almond or an almond/coconut flour combo?
Use this recipe with pumpkin purée and the ganache https://fettabbau-trim.today/2017/10/vegan-gluten-free-coffee-cake-sweet-potato-pecan-crumb-cake.html%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Delicious. My son loves it too. I will make this again. Thank you!
I made this cake about a week ago. It took longer to make and bake than it did to finishing eating it. Delicious, too delicious. I didn’t frost with ganache, I went with a vegan buttercream. This cake is awesome and so much pumpkin smell and flavor. I doubled the recipe and used two 9 inch pans. Next time I plan to use 8 inch pans.
awesome
Can soy milk be used in place of almond milk? My nephew has dairy, egg, and nut allergies but I think he would love this for Thanksgiving.
yes
If I want to double it for a layer cake, what size cake pans should I use? Thanks!
Oops, sorry, I just saw it in the recipe. Thanks!
Another awesome recipe! Thanks so much. I made this tonight and it’s delicious.
yay
Thank you for this recipe! This cake turned out perfect! I doubled it for a 13×9 pan and topped it with vegan cream cheese frosting, mini chocolate chips and orange zest. My husband and I loved it!
awesome!
So I made this amazing Pumpkin cake with a few changes as I did not have the flour recommended. I used arrowhead mills gluten free flour for about 3/4 cup as that was all I had left. I then used about a 1/4 cut almond flour and the rest oat flour. I also added the additional 3 tbl. almond flour called for. For the spices I used 1 tsp all spice and 1 tsp cinnamon. I only used coconut milk for the cake instead of any oil. I did use a hand mixer to beat the liquid part and then again when adding the flours. The mixture was thick and kind of spongy quickly. Baked it in a square 8″ pan for about 35 minutes I think. It came out so perfect. The texture was spongy and kinda sticky but loved that. So I did finish making the ganache chopping up some of the huge 72% trader joes pound and a half chocolate bars. I needed to add some maple syrup as not sweet enough BUT to be honest, I liked the cake WITHOUT the ganache. It was too perfect alone so thats how I’ll keep it. Really the best recipe out there. Thanks so much.
This is the first recipe I have made from veganricha but will definitely be trying more.
Awesome! i have different types of pumpkin cakes on the blog. a crumb cake, a loaf cake without any topping. So i chose a chocolate for this.You can mix and match to preference!
How many slices per cake? I see 217 calories per slice but isthat 1/6 or 1/8 of the cake?
9 . its right above the ingredients.
K, thanks. We were looking and couldn’t find it….
no probs. i should prob move it closer to nutrition
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Can this recipe be doubled for a 9×13 pan?
yes