Chocolate Cake with Coconut Topping (Vegan)
This recipe is for a vegan chocolate cake with a coconut crumble topping.
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
- 200 g margarine, very soft
- 400 g white granulated sugar
- 75 g dried grated coconut
- Zest of a lemon or grated ginger
- 250 ml soy milk, cold
Dry ingredients
- 750 g flour
- 150 g soy flour
- 2 sachets (40 g) baking powder
- 6 pinches vanilla powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 100 g unsweetened cocoa powder
Add-ins
- 450 ml soy milk
- 2 glasses (500 g) cranberries or lingonberries
- 700 ml soy milk
- 2 small apples, cut into small pieces
Topping
- 200 g dark chocolate couverture
- Grated coconut
Steps
- Beat all wet ingredients 10 minutes until creamy, adding the soy milk gradually.
- Combine all dry ingredients. Sift loosely.
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Add wet mixture and add-ins to the dry mixture. Stir briefly until smooth. Do not overmix; the batter deflates and turns tough.
- Spread batter in a large baking pan lined with baking paper.
- Bake 20 minutes. Turn off oven. Leave the cake in residual heat 15 minutes. Cool.
- Unmold. Remove baking paper.
- Melt chocolate couverture over a double boiler. Spread on top of the cake.
- Sprinkle the still soft couverture with grated coconut.
Notes from the original
- Do not overmix the batter once the wet and dry mixtures have been combined. This will prematurely release all the CO2 and make the cake tough.
- The cake becomes greasy if it contains too much margarine relative to the other ingredients. Margarine is heavy and does not give stability (unlike flour).
- The cake can collapse if you take it out of the oven too early. If you wait too long, it gets too dry or even burns. If you wait too short or if the baking temperature is too low, it will not be cooked through.
- The detailed recipe version is available on the homepage of Markus Müller: http://www.mm65.de/VeganerSchokoladenkuchen.html (German).
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Chocolate Cake with Coconut Topping (Vegan)” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2026-04-05, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Changes. Steps rewritten into short commands. Introduction shortened. Wiki formatting removed. This adapted recipe is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.






