Delicious cooking without the mess and the calories.
Ingredients
Cake
- 125 g unsalted butter chopped
- 100 g dark chocolate chopped
- 1/2 cup Whole Earth Baking Sweetener Blend
- 2 free-range eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
- 1/4 cup Dutch cocoa
- 1 dark chocolate curls *to decorate
Chocolate icing
- 1 tbs Whole Earth Sweetener Baking Blend
- 1 tbs boiling water
- 125 g butter chopped softened
- 2 tbs Dutch cocoa
Method
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Step 1Preheat oven to 180C fan-forced. Grease a 22cm round cake tin and line base and sides with baking paper.
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Step 2Put butter and chocolate into a large microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high 100% for 30 second intervals, stirring, until melted and smooth.
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Step 3Add Whole Earth Baking Blend, eggs, milk and vanilla, then beat with a whisk until combined. Sift in flour and cocoa and stir with whisk until a smooth batter forms. Pour into prepared tin. Smooth surface and bake for 30-35 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Set aside for 15 minutes to cool slightly, then remove from tin and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Step 4To make chocolate icing: put Whole Earth Baking Blend and boiling water into a small bowl and stir. Then set aside for 5 minutes until most of the Baking Blend has dissolved.
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Step 5Put butter into a large bowl and beat with electric hand beaters for 1 minute or until light and creamy. Add the Baking Blend mixture and cocoa and beat again on low speed until mixed. Then beat on high for 1 minute until smooth.
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Step 6Spread icing over the top of the cake. Decorate with chocolate curls.
Recipe Notes
Whole Earth Baking Blend is a sweetener that bakes and browns like sugar.
For Christmas, decorate the cake with reindeers and upturned rosemary sprigs as Christmas trees.
Nutritional table: (PER SERVING) 316 calories, 4g protein, 21g total fat, 27g total carbohydrates, 16g total sugars, 1.5g fibre.
If you like the sound of this recipe, you might also like these Low-Calorie Triple-Choc Almond Cookies.
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