Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake
Serves: Serves 18
Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Ingredients
- ½ cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- ½ cup boiling water
- 80g canola margarine
- 1½ cup SPLENDA® Granular
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- 1 cup low-fat milk
- 4 egg whites
- For the icing:
- 250g light cream cheese
- 1/3 cup SPLENDA® Granular
- 2 teaspoons cocoa
- 1 tablespoon low-fat milk
- Optional topping: strawberries
Method
Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 22cm round deep cake tin with baking paper.
Combine cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and water. In a separate bowl, beat margarine, SPLENDA® Granular and egg yolks together. Add cocoa mixture, flour and milk.
Beat egg whites until stiff. Gently stir 1/3 egg whites into the mixture. Stir in another third and then the remainder.
Spoon cake mixture into lined cake tin. Bake for 40 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Remove from tin and cool.
Prepare icing by combining light cream cheese, cocoa, low-fat milk and SPLENDA® Granular with a wooden spoon (note: do not mix with a food processor or icing will become too soft to handle). Ice with chocolate icing.
Decorate with strawberries and serve.
Tips
- Dissolving the cocoa in boiling water helps distribute it throughout the cake mixture as well as giving it a better flavour.
- Ricotta cheese can be substituted for light cream cheese .
- Cake will store for 3-4 days in the refrigerator.
Nutritional Information
Per serve
| Protein | 5.5 | g |
| Fat | 7.3 | g |
| Carbohydrate | 16.1 | g |
| Energy | 630 | kj (150 cal) |
| Fibre | 2.1 | g |
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