Flour Power: A Healthier Take on Chocolate Cake

Healthier Homemade Chocolate Cake
Healthier Homemade Chocolate Cake

Can't stand to cut-out the chocolate? With this recipe you can have your cake and eat it, too! Healthier than the usual dessert and just as delicious, I can actually feel good about eating chocolate cake.

Healthier Homemade Chocolate Cake


Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar 1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground on
1 egg
1 teaspoon ground flax seed + 3 teaspoons water in a small bowl (to replace a 2nd egg)
1 cup coconut milk (you can substitute with regular or almond milk)
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon instant coffee (optional)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

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Helpful Tip: Refrigerate the frosted cake and warm it up in the microwave when ready to eat. The frosting will hold up in most temperatures, but the cake tastes great when the frosting melts. Try it! Frost the middle of the two layers of cake with dulce de leche for a delicious filling. How to make it

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven at 350° F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.

2. Stir the dry ingredients in a large bowl: Sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.

3. Add the coconut milk, egg, flax seed mixture, and applesauce to the dry ingredients and use a mixer in the medium setting to mix well for two minutes.

4. If you're using instant coffee, add it to the boiling water and add it to the cake batter last. If not, just add the boiling water and stir. Then, add the chocolate chips, if using.

5. The batter should be runnier than what you are used to. Pour in the prepared cake pans and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

6. Remove the pans from the oven, but leave the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes to cool. Then, transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

7. While the cake cools, you can prepare the frosting. Heat a medium sauce pan and melt the butter, and then remove from stove. Add in the cocoa, salt and boiling water and stir until smooth.

8. Add the powdered sugar and mix until frosting reaches desired consistency. Add water If frosting seems too thick, and powdered sugar If too thin. Make sure it reaches a spreadable consistency but remember that it will be a little thicker as it cools.

- By Denisse Icaza
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