Lowfat Dark Chocolate Cake With Whipped Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- vegetable oil, for pan
- unsweetened cocoa powder, for pan
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil (can use canola or other preferred salad oil, but does not work as well with olive oil)
- 2⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄4 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg white
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Oil an 8 inch round or sqaure cake pan (or a 9 inch heart shaped cake pan). Cut a piece of wax paper to fit, place in bottom of pan, and oil it too. Dust with cocoa powder and shake out the excess.
- Mix 2/3 cup cocoa, flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
- In another bowl with a mixer, blend 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1/4 cup oil, 2 egg whites, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 cup water. Add flour mixture and stir to mix. Then, beat until batter is smooth. Scrape batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven until cake begins to pull back from pan and springs back when lightly pressed in center, 35 to 40 minutes.
- Let cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes. Run a knife between cake and pan rim, invert cake on rack, and remove wax paper. Let cool 1 hour.
- Prepare a double boiler and heat over high until water in bottom pan is boiling. Be sure water in bottom pan does not evaporate.
- In top pot of double boiler (before placing on bottom pot of double boiler), combine 1 egg white, 1/2 cup sugar, and cream of tartar. Beat with a hand mixer until blended. Reduce heat to maintain a gentle simmer and place pan on top of double boiler. With mixer on medium speed, beat until it holds peaks that curve slightly, 5 to 7 minutes (also known as "soft peaks"). Be sure not to overcook or the frosting will be grainy.
- Remove from heat and bottom pan, and mix in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Immediately frost cooled cake. Best when eaten same day.
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