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Chocolate Cake with Chocolate-Orange Sauce
Have your cake and eat it, too: Swapping in applesauce for butter and using nonfat cream cheese saves you 215 calories and 19 grams of fat per slice of this rich-tasting chocolate cake.
👥 12 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 20m⏳ Prep: 20 min👤 Cheryl Slocum📖 countryliving
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●pan
- ●oven
- ●bowl
- ●spatula
- ●pot
- ●strainer
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a nonstick 9-inch cake pan. Cut and butter a circle of parchment to fit into bottom of pan. Set pan aside.
Butter, for greasing pan and parchmentc. low-fat buttermilk1
2
In a large bowl, sift flour, sugar, 1/2 cup cocoa, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, beat egg whites until glossy and soft peaks form. Using a rubber spatula, stir buttermilk, applesauce, and oil into flour mixture until combined and batter is smooth. Fold egg whites into batter and transfer to prepared pan.
large egg whites3
3
Bake cake, with rack set in the middle, until a toothpick inserted into center tests clean, 40 to ⏱️ 45 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cool for ⏱️ 20 minutes. Invert cake and let cool completely.
4
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and 1/2 cup cocoa. In a medium pot over medium-high heat, bring juice to a boil and cook until reduced by half, 2 to ⏱️ 3 minutes. Add juice to cocoa mixture and stir until combined and the consistency of molasses. Pass sauce through a fine strainer for a smooth and silky consistency. Stir in orange liqueur, if desired. Sift remaining 2 teaspoons cocoa over cake. Slice cake, spoon sauce over each slice, and serve.
Nutrition Facts
calories
295 calories
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