Chocolate Mud Cake for Dieters
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 100 g pitted prunes
- 3⁄4 cup apple juice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
- 4 egg whites
- 1⁄2 cup caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons icing sugar
directions
- Preheat the oven to 160°C and line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
- Place the prunes, apple juice and bicarbonate of soda in a saucepan, bring to the boil, turn off the heat, cover and leave to cool.
- Once cool, puree until smooth.
- Sift the flour and cocoa and stir into the cooled prune puree.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding sugar gradually.
- Fold half the egg whites into the prune mixture and then fold in the remaining egg whites.
- Keep stirring gently until the egg white is incorporated.
- Spoon into the cake tin and bake for 35 minutes or until a cake skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Cool on a rack and just before serving, sieve the icing sugar over the top.
- Serve with low-fat ice cream, low-fat fruche, or a coulis made from pureed, frozen raspberries.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Grace Fung
Hong Kong
I am a Chinese teenage girl who is a beginner in cooking...especially desserts. I have a really sweet tooth, and it is of course not surprising that I am a chocoholic...I cannot live a day without munching on at least one piece of chocolate!
(By the way, the combination of hazelnut praline and dark chocolate is my favourite...how about you?)
To compensate my passion for chocolate and desserts as a weight watcher, I would turn to low fat main meal ideas. (Actually the fat and sugar content of most desserts are scary enough...but as long as I am "ignorant" of the ingredients, who cares?)
I know I definitely would be enjoying my time on Zaar, with all your recipe ideas and generous help to my cooking queries...
Thanks for those who offer me help!