This gluten-free, vegan chocolate applesauce cake is a delicious, easy, allergy-friendly dessert… or breakfast.
The perfect pregnancy. . . meal.
I’m not going to lie. I first came up with this chocolate applesauce cake 5 years ago I was pregnant with my 3rd daughter. The morning all-day sickness was bad and I was about to be put on bed rest for the last trimester of my pregnancy. I was struggling to find foods that didn’t make me want to throw up.
This easy vegan cake was all I could handle for breakfast.
And lunch.
And sometimes dinner.
Happy birthday, baby.
Fast forward one crazy hard labor, and 5 loud and dramatic years, and my little bundle of joy announced that for her upcoming birthday she wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
I knew just what cake to make.
This delicious and easy gluten-free, vegan chocolate applesauce cake. After all, it’s practically what nourished her in the womb, isn’t it? So why would it not be the perfect birthday cake?
And to be honest, it went over a whole lot better than last year’s chocolate chip cookie cake. Not that the chocolate chip cookie cake wasn’t insanely delicious, I just made the unknowing mistake of frosting it with whipping cream. Apparently she doesn’t like whipping cream.
Chocolate Applesauce Cake.
This chocolate applesauce cake is quite easy to whip up, and is completely allergy-friendly, too! Even though I frosted it with a rich chocolate buttercream frosting for these pictures, I usually just make it with a simple chocolate frosting. It can be baked in two 9-inch cake pans for a layer cake, or in a 13×9 inch dish for a sheet cake. Either way, it’s delicious!
It’s not too sweet, either, so there’s no guilt in eating it whenever the heck you want. I mean, how could there be guilt when you’re basically just eating applesauce? 😉
I use a mix of brown rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca starch, with some guar gum to hold it all together. If you want to, you can just sub those ingredients for a gluten-free, all purpose baking mix. If your mix doesn’t contain guar gum or xanthin gum, just add in a little.
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I love recipes that come out delicious even when you substitute…I halved the recipe, used sorghum instead of rice flour, tapioca in place of other starches, xanthan gum, coconut sugar…DELICIOUS and so quick and easy! Many thanks!
Yay! I'm so glad that it turned out well for you and that you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know! It's always encouraging to hear updates like this. : )
Evaporated cane juice is a cane sugar that has not gone through the refining process like table or white sugar. You can click on the text in the ingredients list and it will take you to the product on Amazon so that you can see what it looks like. You can use regular sugar, or coconut sugar, rapidura or something else like that as a replacement, if you like. 🙂
I love those sweet photos and SO wish I had a piece of this cake right now. I think the chocolate on chocolate idea is brilliant 😉 gotta love that chocolate!
That looks and sounds amazing!
Thanks! 🙂
I love recipes that come out delicious even when you substitute…I halved the recipe, used sorghum instead of rice flour, tapioca in place of other starches, xanthan gum, coconut sugar…DELICIOUS and so quick and easy! Many thanks!
Yay! I'm so glad that it turned out well for you and that you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know! It's always encouraging to hear updates like this. : )
What is cane juice please?
Evaporated cane juice is a cane sugar that has not gone through the refining process like table or white sugar. You can click on the text in the ingredients list and it will take you to the product on Amazon so that you can see what it looks like. You can use regular sugar, or coconut sugar, rapidura or something else like that as a replacement, if you like. 🙂
I love those sweet photos and SO wish I had a piece of this cake right now. I think the chocolate on chocolate idea is brilliant 😉 gotta love that chocolate!