Vegan chocolate cake

Use vegetable margarine or oil instead of butter
Use orange juice instead of milk
Use golden syrup for part of the sugar to replace the eggs
Use brown sugar instead of raw or white sugar, it's richer & moister
Use vegetable margarine in the icing to make is soft and yum

Depending on what recipe you've got I'd say use equal amounts of cocoa and flour (most recipes use more flour and aren't rich enough).

If it's a 'cream the butter and sugar' type cake, don't use all the sugar for this or it might end up too sweet. Use about half what they say as the golden syrup will be very sweet.

Use about a tablespoon of golden syprup per egg. Taste-test and add more sugar if you need to, to get the sweetness right. It's too easy to make chocolate cake too sweet so lots of tasting is good.

Orange juice makes it really yummy. I never use soy milk in cakes. You don't need much liquid though. Just add it bit by bit so it doesn't get too sloppy.

you can make decent brownies, fudges, chocolate chip cookies without any dairy ingredients but genuine Fluffy Cake is a waste of time and will leave you bitterly disappointed for having tried making.

if this is for someone's birthday, be extra careful not to make a them vegan chocolate cake, unless you enjoy being embarrased or enjoy embarrasing people on their birthday. make them brownies or give them some money or something (and make sure they don't use that money to buy a vegan chocolate cake). under no circumstances should you make vegan cake. would you like chocolate bread on your birthday when everyone else gets to have fluffy cake. trust me, i've been a vegan for 5 years now and intend to stay that way but have yet to eat vegan cake that eats like real cake.

To be honest, the tastiest thing I could do would be to get a take-away cake from Mildred's in Soho or something. But the whole point is, I wanna make the effort of baking a cake for someone who I know will appreciate the fact that I made the effort. Given my limited cooking skills, it's not necessarily gonna be the best available in London (in fact, it certainly won't be). She'll understand that. But I want to make the best cake that I can possibly make.

The only way I've ever got a flat, bread-like cake is by forgetting to put in the baking soda. It's hard to make a dry and fluffy vegan cake as these are based on fluffy egg whites but there's no problem making a moist and delicious one. Make sure you don't make the mixture too runny though. Go easy on the liquids - this is for all cakes, not just vegan ones.

I'll see if I can mither the creator for the recipe.

I made it. It was kind of crispy on the outside, perfect just under that, and the middle was sticky and chewy.

For a really dark rich cake use treacle instead of golden syrup.
It comes out dense but in a deliciously sticky and gooey way.