Colorful and festive vegan funfetti cake! This gorgeous, light and fluffy, moist and vanilla flavored cake with vanilla frosting is perfect for celebrations!
I always think a vegan funfetti cake is such a great celebratory cake.
It’s the perfect kind of cake to have for a birthday party, and while all the bright and cheery colorful stuff is very kid-friendly, adults also tend to be pleased as punch with cakes like this.
I’ve made some vegan funfetti cupcakes already, and those were so awesome, I knew I’d make a vegan funfetti cake one day!
What kind of sprinkles are best for a funfetti cake?
I wanted to wait until I could get hold of some rainbow sprinkles, because when I made my cupcakes I used non pareils (the balls). Those worked okay, but rainbow sprinkles is really the best for a funfetti cake.
If you use the wrong kind of sprinkles then they just melt and run and you end up with a cake that is too wet and doesn’t have the little dashes of color going through it because they all just melted away.
So you want to use rainbow sprinkles (also called jimmies)! That is really the top tip for this cake.
The other tip is to add the rainbow sprinkles in last, once you have already mixed your batter, and just gently fold them in.
Then divide between your cake tins and right into the oven.
You don’t want them sitting around in the batter, or that could result in the color streaking.
What about the flavor?
The flavor of this cake is delicious vanilla and the frosting is a fabulous vanilla buttercream that just melts in your mouth.
I’m not one for cake decorating (I just don’t have the skills!) but I decided to complement the colorfulnesss of the cake with some colorful frosting too. So after frosting the cake, I put a little frosting aside, divided it into two bowls and then added a drop or two of pink food coloring to one bowl, and a drop or two of green food coloring to the other bowl, and then just piped alternating colors along the edges of the cake.
Loads more sprinkles went into the middle for decoration and suddenly it was a pretty cake! And so easy anyone can do it. Really, there are no special skills involved in making or decorating this cake.
So I hope you’ll love this gorgeous vegan funfetti cake! It is:
- Colorful
- Vibrant
- Super easy
- Vanilla flavored
- Light and fluffy
- Moist
- A great vegan birthday cake!
- Perfect for celebrations!
Keep it covered at room temperature and enjoy within a few days or keep covered in the fridge and consume within a week.
More Vegan Cakes
- Vegan Lemon Cake
- Vegan Chocolate Cake
- Vegan White Cake
- Vegan Coconut Cake
- Vegan Vanilla Cake
- Vegan Vanilla Sheet Cake
Vegan Funfetti Cake
Ingredients
For the Funfetti Cake:
- 2 and ⅔ cups All Purpose Flour (330g)
- 1 and ½ cups White Granulated Sugar (300g)
- 1 and ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ¾ tsp Salt
- 1 and ½ cups Soy Milk (360ml) or other non-dairy milk
- ½ cup Canola Oil (120ml) or Vegetable Oil
- 1 Tbsp Distilled White Vinegar
- 3 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ cup Rainbow Sprinkles (95g)
For the Vanilla Buttercream Frosting:
- 4 and ½ cups Powdered Sugar (540g)
- ½ cup Vegan Butter (112g)
- 3-4 Tbsp Soy Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Pink and Green Food Coloring Optional
For Decoration:
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and spray 2 8 inch cake pans with non-stick spray and line the bottoms with circles of parchment paper.
- Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and add the sugar, baking soda and salt.
- Add the soy milk, oil, vinegar and vanilla and use a hand whisk to mix until just combined.
- Add the sprinkles and fold in gently.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cakes comes out clean.
- Transfer the cakes to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool completely before frosting.
- Add the powdered sugar, vegan butter, 3 Tbsp of soy milk and the vanilla to the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Beginning at slow speed, gradually increase speed until thick and smooth. If it's too thick, add in the extra tablespoon of soy milk but add it in slowly as you might not need all of it.
- If you don't want to do the pink and green frosting decoration then just use all the frosting to frost the cake. But if you would like to do it, then leave a little frosting behind after frosting the cake. Take the remaining frosting and divide it into two bowls. Place a couple of drops of pink food coloring into one bowl and a couple of drops of green food coloring into the other and mix it in. Then pipe on alternating pink and green around the edges of the cake.
- Decorate the top of the cake with sprinkles.
- Keep the cake covered at room temperature where it will stay fresh for a few days or covered in the fridge where it will last up to a week.
Notes
- Measure the flour correctly using the spoon and level method, spoon the flour into your measuring cup and then level off the top with a knife. Don't scoop it and don't pack it into the cup. Alternatively weigh it on a food scale for complete accuracy.
- Check your sprinkles for vegan friendliness or try these from Sweetapolita.
Nutrition
Can’t wait to try out this recipe. Been wanting to make my own sprinkles as well.
Made this just now, so fantastic! Quick and easy to make, and fills the house with a lovely smell! Tastes amazing. Thank you, will definitely be making again.
Awesome! Thanks so much Rosa!
Made this cake for my daughter’s birthday.it was super delicious!
Wonderful! Thanks so much Gabriella!
This was my first vegan dessert ever, and it turned out really well! It was moist, dense, and flavorful. Very popular with the crowd. Thank you 🙂
Thanks Elaine!
This is my go to cake recipe! I have modified it with whatever plant milk i have on hand, cocoa powder, made cupcakes, etc. and it never fails me. Thanks!
Yay! Thanks so much Marta!
This recipe is DANK as fuq!
Used almond milk and coconut oil.
Son rated it 75 stars.
Hahaha, awesome! Thanks Arik!
Can I use Gluten Free Flour instead of regular AP flour?
Yes that should be fine so long as it’s a gluten free all purpose blend.
I just have to share that this is the best cake I’ve ever made and honestly, one if the best cakes I’ve had ever, period. YUM.
Wonderful! Thanks so much Amanda!
Hi! How could I modify this for cupcakes?
Hi Sara, we do have a funfetti cupcakes recipe as well. Otherwise this one would adapt to around 18-24 cupcakes depending on how high you fill the liners. Baking time would be 20-25 minutes.
Can oat milk be used in place of soy, in cake and frosting?
Hi Veronica, yes as long as it’s a brand that can heat well (generally not a homemade oat milk) then it will be fine! 🙂
Hello! I’ve tried this cake a couple of times an it never seems to turn out right .. the first time I think I cooked it on a too high temp but this time I put the temp lower and it seems to be better but I can’t see the sprinkles? Any ideas why this would be?
Hi Amanda, the kind of sprinkles is very important, you need to use jimmy sprinkles since a lot of other types of sprinkles will just bake into the cake and you won’t see them.
Do u think like those powder milk will work?
Hi Mandy, if you mix it up with water so that it’s the same consistency as milk then I think it would work but I haven’t tried it! 🙂