Dessert

Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake is for Dessert.

Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake takes 20 minutes to prepare.

Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake takes 30 minutes to cook.

Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake makes 16 servings.

The ingredients for Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake are:

NOTE: I highly recommend using as many organic ingredients as possible. Besides being good for you, the flavor with organics is so much better.

Cake Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups Organic Whole Grain Spelt Flour*
1 cup Organic Raw Turbinado Cane Sugar
2/3 cup Organic Unsweetened Cocoa Powder**
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup warm filtered water
2 tsp Organic PURE Vanilla Extract (ONLY contains alcohol and vanilla. No high fructose corn syrup or other sweeteners.)
2/3 cup Organic Cinnamon Apple Sauce (no sugar added)
1 tsp Raw Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar with the Mother

Topping
1 pint fresh Organic Strawberries, sliced thinly

Chocolate Glaze
1/2 cup Raw Organic Turbinado Cane Sugar
4 tbsp Butter (or Margarine for Vegan)
2 tbsp Organic Whole Milk (or Soy or other nut milk for vegan)
2 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
2 tsp Organic Pure Vanilla Extract (only Vanilla & alcohol)

Here is how you make Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 8x8 or 7x11 glass baking dish with non-stick spray and dust with flour (spray & dust is optional). Mix together dry cake ingredients with a fork until well blended. Add wet cake ingredients to dry ingredients and blend well. Pour into baking pan and place in oven on middle rack. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until knife comes out clean. Remove and cool completely.Once cool, slice strawberries and put on top of cake in a single layer.Glaze: In a small sauce pan, bring sugar, butter, milk, and cocoa to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes, still stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir constantly for 5 more minutes. Add vanilla, stir, and immediately pour onto cake over the strawberries. (Glaze sets quickly.)Let cool. Cut into 2 x 2 inch square pieces. *You could substitute any number of flours in this recipe; whole wheat, barley, brown rice, oat, buckwheat, rye, quinoa...it never hurts to experiment!**The first time I made this, I doubled the glaze recipe. It was delicious, but not needed. I also substituted 1/3 cup of cocoa powder in the cake recipe for unsweetened carob powder. I don't recommend this unless you are use to (and like) the taste of carob powder).Serving Size: Makes 16 two inch square piecesNumber of Servings: 16Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KEL_MB.

The nutritional information for Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 16
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 169.1

• Total Fat: 1.1 g
• Cholesterol: 0.3 mg
• Sodium: 155.6 mg
• Total Carbs: 20.1 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.4 g
• Protein: 2.4 g

The dietary needs meet for Healthy and Delicious Chocolate Cake is Vegan