Opinion Best vegan cakes: 15+ delicious egg-free & dairy-free recipes

Looking for fuss-free vegan cakes that serve up serious fluff, flavour, and frosting? These drool-worthy recipes make plant-based baking a piece of cake — literally! 😋🍰💕

With so many plant-based alternatives lining the supermarket shelves, whipping up decadent vegan cakes has never been easier – or more delicious! We’re talking plant-based cakes so soft, sweet, and satisfying that you won’t even be able to tell the difference.

These days, plant-based milks, vegan butter, dairy-free cream, and egg substitutes are easy to find at the shops, making dairy-free and egg-free baking a breeze.

To inspire your sweet tooth, we’ve rounded up our all-time favourite vegan cakes – all taste-tested and adored by the VegKit team (Card-carrying cake lovers, reporting for duty 🍰) 

From timeless classics like vanilla sponge and carrot cake to fancier flavours like chocolate and pear and vegan Biscoff cake, there’s a recipe here to suit every craving and occasion. 

Whether you’re a seasoned plant-based baker or just dipping your wooden spoon in for the first time, here are some foolproof vegan cakes we know you’ll fall in love with.

1. Vegan Biscoff Cheesecake

Cookie butter lovers, rejoice: This creamy, dreamy cheesecake features a caramelised Biscoff flavour, crunchy biscuit base, and velvety cream cheese filling. All 100% plant-based and dangerously moreish.

2. Vegan Ice Cream Cake

Featuring crushed Oreos, vegan cookies-and-cream ice cream, and a generous drizzle of chocolate sauce, this delectable ice cream cake has childhood nostalgia written all over it! It’s the perfect summer birthday cake – or a treat all year round! 

3. Nanna’s Vegan Carrot Cake

This iconic carrot cake is a beloved family favourite from VegKit’s sassiest honourary team member, Nanna Mirella. Now made delightfully plant-based, it’s bursting with spices, lemon zest, and topped with luscious vegan cream cheese frosting. Perfect with a warm cuppa, it’s proof that Nanna’s recipes never miss 🙌

4. Strawberry Tea Cake

Is it just us, or does vegan strawberry tea cake have “cottagecore” written all over it? This quaint plant-based recipe is popular for picnics, brunch, afternoon tea, or just because.

5. Chocolate Mud Cake with Rich Ganache

Dense, dark, and unapologetically decadent, this recipe is everything a fudgy chocolate mud cake should be. You’d never know it was vegan! 

6. Nanna’s Apple Tea Cake 

Nanna Mirella’s cinnamon-spiced apple teacake tastes like something straight out of your childhood kitchen. It’s guaranteed to become a fast family favourite.

7. Vegan Lemon and Blueberry Cheesecake

Vegan lemon and blueberry cake—yes, please 😍 This easy no-bake cheesecake is so silky and rich that your guests won’t even be able to tell it’s made with cashews instead of dairy.

8. Cinnamon Tea Cake

There’s something timeless about a tea cake, and this one nails the brief – soft and airy on the inside, and crowned with a crunchy cinnamon topping.

9. Vegan Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake

Sunny lemon and crunchy poppy seeds come together in this tasty little number that feels both posh and playful. It’s like springtime in cake form – bright, light, and unexpectedly addictive.

10. Chocolate Celebration Cake

Looking for a simple celebration cake to impress both vegans and non-vegans alike? This recipe is a brilliant option for anything from birthdays to anniversaries – or simply for celebrating the existence of cake itself 😉Any excuse will do!

11. Lemon & Apple Olive Oil Cake

Whisked up with lemon zest, baked apple, and the decadence of olive oil, this is one of those easy vegan cakes that’s earthy, elegant, and effortlessly sophisticated. It’s a lovely, refreshing option if you’re craving something a little lighter!

12. Chocolate & Pear Cake

Dark chocolate cake meets the lightness of pear slices in this slightly unexpected – yet perfectly balanced – flavour combo. One forkful of this dreamy duo and you’ll be hooked!

13. Spiced Treacle Cake with Lemon Buttercream

Infused with the cosiness of ginger, nutmeg, and chilli, this spiced treacle cake is comfort food at its finest – sweet, zesty, and soul-warming.

14. Vegan Hummingbird Cake

This hummingbird cake hits all the right spots! Its tropical mix of banana, pineapple, pecans, walnuts, and spice makes it a sweet Southern classic – and a true crowd-pleaser. 

15. Blueberry and Macadamia Cheesecake

Lusciously smooth and sweetened by nature, this perfectly purple no-bake delight is what happens when blueberries and macadamias decide to throw a garden party. 

16. Classic Vegan Birthday Cake

Pillowy vanilla layers, fluffy dairy-free frosting, and a whole party’s worth of sprinkles – this childhood-inspired birthday cake recipe is cheerful, nostalgic, and entirely plant-powered. Just add candles!

17. Passionfruit Cake

Few things are more addictive than a tropical, tangy passionfruit cake, especially drizzled with a sweet yet refreshing glaze. I simply cannot have this vegan cake near me, or I will scoff it all at once!

No eggs, no dairy, no worries! Plant-based baking takes the cake 💕

And there you have it – a drool-worthy collection of vegan cakes that prove you don’t need animal products to whip up an impressively indulgent sweet treat.

So, go forth and bake! And don’t be surprised if friends start requesting that “secretly vegan” cake at every get-together from now on (We won’t tell if you don’t 😉)

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