Died and Went to Heaven Chocolate Cake,diabetic Version

Annacia's Note:

Deliciously moist low-sugar chocolate cake, made even more flavorful by the addition of coffee. This is from the Splenda site.

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 10

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup Splenda granular
• 1/2 cup Splenda brown sugar blend
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups low-fat buttermilk
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup Egg Beaters egg substitute
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup hot strong black coffee

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease a deep cake pan or bundt with non-stick cooking spray, set aside.
3. Blend flour, SPLENDA® Granulated Sweetener, SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt in large mixing bowl.
4. Combine buttermilk, oil, EggBeaters, vanilla extract, and coffee in a small bowl.
5. Add flour to mixture, using an electric mixer on medium speed, mix until Smooth (about 2 minutes).
6. Pour batter into cake pan or bundt pan.
7. Bake for 35 minutes, until an inserted toothpick in center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes.
8. Note.
9. Exchanges per Serving: 2 Starches, 2 Fats.

Reviews

[Sweet Baboo]

This cake will be my standard family chocolate cake from now on...it was everything the intro promised: moist with a well rounded chocolate flavour minus the sugar and high fat. I would never downgrade a review due to recipe changes I must make to feed my family members who are diabetic, but when I make these changes successfully I want to share them with others who may have the same needs. This gem of a recipe has already been tweaked to make it suitable, so the only other alteration I made was to substitute 3/4 of a cup of spelt flour for part of the all purpose flour, and other than the cake perhaps not rising quite as high as without spelt, the flavour was still excellent, and the cake moist. I could not detect a coffee flavour, but I understand that the addition of coffee serves to intensify the deep chocolate flavour of cocoa. It worked! I will use this recipe to make a layer cake also, as I'm sure it would adapt to a 9x13 or 9 inch round pans, but next time I will either line the pan with parchment, or grease and "flour" with a light dusting of cocoa for a perfect release. Probably because of the spelt flour, or because I didn't leave it in the pan for the full 5 minutes before turning it onto the rack, one little tear occurred, but I am quite sure it was my fault, not the recipe's. Thanks for this great dessert recipe.

[Chef #1358782]

OMG!!! Made this cake as a wedding cake (had to bake 5 batches of it) and it was AWESOME!!! You couldn't even tell it was diabetic... taste was delicious, crumb was just like a regular cake. Thank you so much for posting it!

[Monica May]

I have made this recipe twice now and love it. I replaced the oil with applesauce to lower the points and it turned out great. I also upped the splenda to 3/4 cup to make it a little sweeter. After adjusting the ingredients my calculation shows that the whole cake has 38 points.