Low-Fat Chocolate Mocha Cake
This light and fluffy cake has all the taste of a full fat chocolate cake but has only 180 calories per slice so you can enjoy a nice guilt free slab of chocolate heaven while still watching your weight.
The perfect chocolate cake!
The filling is made with light soft cheese and fat free yogurt instead of cream or butter cream and is topped with a chocolaty low fat creamy delight but still retains all the taste and it looks great too!
If you don’t like the taste of coffee you can leave it out the cake still tastes yummy!
Don’t use 70% or above dark chocolate for this recipe because it makes the topping taste a bit bitter anything below that is fine.
Ingredients for Low-fat Chocolate Mocha Cake
- Butter for greasing the tin
- 3 large eggs
- 75g/ 3oz caster sugar
- 62g/ 2 ½ oz plain flour
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- For the Filling and Topping:
- 25g/ 1oz dark chocolate chopped
- 1 tablespoon strong black coffee
- 100g/ 4oz light soft cheese, I used Philadelphia Light
- 100g/ 4oz fat-free Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- To Decorate:
- 12 ½ g/ ½ oz dark chocolate chopped
How to make Low-Fat Chocolate Mocha Cake
Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F, gas mark 4
Lightly butter and line the insides of two 18 cm sandwich tins
Whisk the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy
Sift the flour, cornflour, cocoa and baking powder into this mixture and fold gently using a metal spoon
Divide the mixture between the two tins
Bake for 15-20 minutes
Leave to cool in the tins for 5 minutes and then turn out onto a wire cooling rack
How to make the filling and topping:
Melt the chocolate and coffee together in a bowl over a pan of hot water stirring until the chocolate has melted
Leave to cool slightly
While this mixture is cooling
Beat the soft cheese, yogurt and icing sugar together until smooth
Place half of this yogurt mixture in a separate bowl this will be used for the filling
Stir the chocolate mixture into the other half of the yogurt mixture until well combined
Sandwich the two sponges together using the yogurt and soft cheese mixture
Cover the top of the cake with the chocolate mixture and drizzle over with the melted dark chocolate
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