Best Vegan Pumpkin Cake Recipes

VEGAN PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Boil 1 cup water and mix with instant coffee in a measuring cup or mug. Set aside to cool.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a rectangular 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Combine flour, sugar, mixed spice, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in a bowl and mix well. Add cooled coffee, oil, and 3/4 cup water and mix until well combined. Fold in pumpkin puree and vanilla extract; mix well. Pour batter evenly into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or almost clean, as this cake can be quite sticky, about 30 minutes.
• Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert cake carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Cool at least 15 minutes more before cutting.

PUMPKIN & CRANBERRY SPICE CAKE (VEGAN OR NOT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two round baking pans.
• Combine pumpkin, spices, sugar, melted butter, soy milk and orange juice.
• Mix in flour, baking soda and powder, and salt.
• Cut cranberries in half and then add to mixture, mixing until well combined.
• Pour mixture into the two prepared baking pans and bake for approximately 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
• To make vegan buttercream frosting, mix 1 cup (1 stick) Earth Balance butter with 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, and 1/8 to 1/4 cup orange juice.
• Frost when cake is cool.

VEGAN PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease an 8x8 baking pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper.
• Place sugar, oil, syrup and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Whisk until sugar is dissolved.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, spices and salt.
• In small alternating portions, add the flour mixture and pumpkin to the liquid ingredients. Begin and end with the flour mixture.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake 55 minutes to an hour.

VEGAN PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven. Preheat to 350°F Grease and flour inside of a 9 inch square baking pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmet, and salt into a bowl. Whisk to combine well, and set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer with the whisk attachment, beat egg replacer and sugars at low speed about 2 minutes until pale. Add oil, pumpkin, milk, and vanilla and mix until blended.
• Add flour mixture at low speed in three additions, mixing just until blended. Remove bowl from mixer and stir in walnuts. Pour into pan and smooth top.
• Bake for 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack.
• To serve, cut into squares; may frost with vanilla frosting if desired.

VEGAN CHOCOLATE GANACHE PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350, grease or spray a 9x9 pan.
• Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler (or in the microwave for 30 sec. intervals, stirring after each 30 seconds until melted) in a medium bowl.
• Stir in pumpkin, vanilla, oil and flaxseed to the melted chocolate.
• Mix all dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves) until well combined, and stir in wet ingredients.
• Spread evenly into the pan (batter will be thick) and bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool.
• Ganache: melt margarine and soymilk in a small bowl (either in the microwave or on a double boiler). Stir in chocolate chips and continue heating until melted and smooth.
• Spread over cake when cake is cooled, refrigerate cake if you want ganache to set (or dig in for melty chocolate-y heaven :D).

VEGAN PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE - THERMOMIX VERSION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C Grease and flour a 9in square cake pan.
• Mix butter and sugars 10 seconds/speed 4 - or until combined.
• Add the egg replacer, soy milk, vanilla and pumpkin. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5. Scrape down. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5 again.
• Add the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5. Scrape down. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5 again.
• Add the walnuts and stir in by hand - the Tmix will pulverize them!
• Spoon mixture into the prepared pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.

VEGAN PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH VANILLA MAPLE FROSTING AND SPICED

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and position rack in center of oven. Line two six-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides with parchment paper. Coat parchment paper and pan sides with nonstick spray. Whisk flour, baking soda, spices, salt, and sugar in a large bowl to blend well. Whisk pumpkin, oil, maple extract, vanilla extract, and cider together in small bowl to blend well, then whisk into the flour mixture until well blended. Whisk in cider vinegar and stir quickly (pale swirls will be in the batter, which is the baking soda reacting with the vinegar, which allows the cake to rise since there are no eggs). Transfer cake batter to prepared pan and bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes. Cool cake completely in pan on rack, about 1 hour. Cut around sides of pan to loosen. Turn cake out onto platter; peel off parchment paper. Let cool completely, then place in the fridge to chill until very cold to make slicing easier (since cakes with no eggs crumble easier). When chilled, slice cakes horizontally in half so that you have 4 layers.
• To make spiced pepitas, heat oven to 375, line a baking sheet with foil, and spray with non-stick spray. Toss seeds with agave nectar, sugar, spices, and sea salt and mix until well combined. Spread out on prepared sheet, and bake for 10-15 minutes until seeds are fragrant and toasted. Remove pan from oven and let cool completley. Set aside until finished frosting the cake. You will only need some of these for the cake decorations, so you can snack on the rest!
• To make frosting, beat cream cheese in a large bowl until very fluffy and smooth, Then beat in remaining ingredients until well blended. To assemble cake, place a layer of cake on a plate, and spoon a heaping 1/2 cup frosting over, almost to the sides, then top with another layer and repeat. Top with another cake layer, another frosting layer, then the top cake layer. Spread the frosting over the top and the sides of the cake, and press spiced pepitas decoratively around the top of the cake, and a couple in the middle on the top. Place around the bottom of the cake as well. If you have leftover frosting, you can also pipe some of it decoratively on top of the cake. Chill the cake at least a few hours to set filling before serving.
• *if you would like a 4 layer 9 inch cake, double this entire recipe and bake in two 9 inch cake pans.

VEGAN CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN FUDGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour an 8" cake pan.
• Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave in 30 second increments.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, water, vinegar, sugar, vanilla, oil, and salt.
• In a large bowl, sift together the cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Add in spices and whisk to combine.
• Combine the wet mixture with the dry mixture until smooth. Pour in melted chocolate and whisk well to combine.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan and bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and continue cooling.

EGGLESS PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE WITH YOGURT GLAZE (VEGAN)

Steps:

• First add all the dry ingredients (all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt) and mix well until combined. To a large mixing bowl, add the oil, sugar, yogurt, pumpkin puree and beat using a hand whisk / blender until mixed well and fluffy. Add the dry ingredients little by little to the wet mixture and fold nicely until combined. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 10' bundt cake pan with oil. Transfer the cake batter to the bundt pan. Using a spoon slightly smooth the surface and then bake in the oven for about 1 hr. Inserting a toothpick in the thickest portion of the cake should come out clean. Leave the cake to cool for about 5 mins in the pan. Then transfer it to a cooling rack and cool to room temperature. Beat the Silk Non Dairy Yogurt until light and fluffy and drizzle it over the cake. Enjoy.
• - In case of using regular yogurt :- For the cake, add 1/2 cup more sugar and 1 Tbsp vanilla extract. For the glaze, you can add sugar and vanilla extract to the yogurt as per your taste.
• - For the glaze, if you feel that the yogurt is thick, you can thin it out with a little water/milk.
• - The Silk Non Dairy Vanilla yogurt itself is sweet, delicious and perfect for the glaze. However, If you want your glaze to be sweeter, you can add confectioner's sugar per taste.

VEGAN PUMPKIN-COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan with nonstick spray or line cupcake pan with paper liners.
• Whisk pumpkin puree, brown sugar, canola oil and coconut milk in a bowl.
• Mix flour, whole wheat flour, sugar, baking soda and pumpkin pie spice in another bowl. Whisk in pumpkin mixture until blended.
• Stir in flaked coconut. Scrape batter into pan or divide into cupcake liners. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes for loaf and less for cupcakes. Let cool in pan 5 minutes. Unmold and let cool completely on rack. **If making muffins, reduce baking time to 35-40 minutes.