Low Fat Chocolate Mint Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
• 1/2 cup low-fat milk or 1/2 cup skim milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon mint extract
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee, mixed with
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/2 cup pureed prune baby food (2 small jars)
• 1/2 ounce semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
• 2 egg whites
• 1 tablespoon non-fat fudge sauce
• powdered sugar (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300°f
• 2 spray a 10" cake pan with vegetable spray and lightly dust with flour.
• 3 sift together all the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
• 4 in a small bowl, mix the applesauce, milk, vanilla, mint, coffee, prunes and chocolate.
• 5 add to dry ingredients and mix well.
• 6 beat the egg whites in a small non plastic bowl till stiff.
• 7 fold in the cake batter.
• 8 spread the batter in the prepared pan.
• 9 bake 35-40 minutes, till knife comes out clean when tested.
• 10 remove the cake from the oven and cool.
• 11 when it is cooled off spread the nonfat chocolate sauce on top.
• 12 sprinkle with powdered sugar right before serving.
• 13 the easiest way to cut this cake is to cut into 12 equal servings is to first cut into quarters, then cut each quarter into 3 equal wedges.