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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