Nice Low-Fat Chocolate Cake

We all know that sometimes at that topographic point are days when you lot only NEED a slice of chocolate cake to brand everything better. Chocolate cake volition take heed to your problems. Chocolate cake volition boost you lot morale. Chocolate cake volition brand everything better….

Until you lot realize that you lot only ate 1,800 calories inwards ane sitting too the saccharide is causing your anxiety to instruct through the roof!

So you lot create upward one's heed to quit your human relationship alongside chocolate cake mutual frigidity turkey, but hence the craving hits you lot actually difficult too you’re dorsum to beingness 2 elbows deep inwards chocolatey goodness.

If entirely at that topographic point was a agency to brand carrot sticks gustation similar chocolate cake… If I could figure that out I’d live on the richest soul inwards America!

But I tin say you lot virtually the adjacent best affair – LOW FAT CHOCOLATE CAKE! Yes, only similar the Lochness Monster too Bigfoot, it actually does exist! In fact, it has less calories too fatty than that granola bar hanging out inwards your luncheon box.

And my favorite business office virtually this cake is that it doesn’t accept whatever weird ingredients, similar purified cauliflower or avocado. I guarantee you lot already accept all of these ingredients inwards your pantry correct now!

So how does it work? Don’t worry, I’ll say you! (I promise you’re non tired nonetheless of me cry for questions too answering them myself.) I made a really of import component swap to cutting downwardly on fatty too calories.

I replaced the petroleum alongside yogurt!

Oil, whether it live on vegetable petroleum or canola oil, is works life inwards most every cake recipe. That’s because petroleum is what makes the cake moist. But it’s also the to the lowest degree salubrious component – 1 loving cup of vegetable petroleum contains 1,927 calories too 218 grams of fat. Wow! So yesteryear replacing the petroleum alongside yogurt you lot tin salve a LOT of fatty too calories.

Yogurt works inwards the same agency petroleum does – it helps moisten the cake. It’s of import to complaint that if you lot brand this commutation you lot should add together a picayune fatty inwards the recipe to assistance alongside consistency. That’s why there’s 1/4 loving cup of peanut butter inwards this cake.

In review, ane slice of this cake has virtually 150 calories too three grams of fat. Compare that to Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake recipe, which has a whopping 490 calories too fourteen grams of fat! That’s a HUGE difference!

So my friends, alongside this recipe you lot tin accept your cake too consume it too! (You knew I was going to brand that joke somewhere inwards this post!)

Low-Fat Chocolate Cake

Yield: 10 servings

Ingredients

• 1 loving cup all-purpose or gluten-free flour (125 grams)
• 3/4 loving cup granulated saccharide (150.75 grams)
• 1/2 loving cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
• 6 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa pulverization (45 grams)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 loving cup Greek yogurt (60 grams)
• 1/4 loving cup peanut butter or whatever nut butter or allergy-friendly alternative (67 grams)
• 3/4 loving cup milk (171 grams)
• 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

 Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit too grease 9-inch circular pan. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, optional chocolate chips, cocoa powder, baking soda too salt.
3. In a medium bowl, combine Greek yogurt too peanut butter; stir well. Whisk inwards milk too pure vanilla extract until smooth.
4. Pour moisture ingredients into dry out ingredients too stir until only combined. Pour batter into greased pan.
5. Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out to a greater extent than frequently than non build clean when inserted.
6. Let cake cool inwards pan for 10 minutes, hence take cake from pans too onto wire rack to complete cooling.
7. You tin serve patently or sprinkle powdered saccharide on move yesteryear or add together fat-free whipped topping to cake earlier eating.

Recipe adapted from Chocolate Covered Katie