A healthy and low fat chocolate cake recipe that tastes so sinful you will never believe it!
There is NO oil needed for this chocolate cake!
The recipe gets rave reviews every single time I make it… even from people who aren’t normally fans of healthy desserts!
It can definitely hold its own against any high-calorie chocolate cake from a fancy restaurant or cake shop, and no one ever guesses it isn’t full of fat and sugar.
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Bonus points: There are no crazy ingredients in this recipe.
No offense to my cauliflower based Healthy Chocolate Cake.
By using yogurt (I like nondairy yogurt) you can cut way back on the fat and empty calories while still retaining all of the moisture and richness of a traditional cake made with oil.
Years of experience have taught me that chocolate tastes much better when some fat is included, and therefore I chose to add a little nut butter to the healthy chocolate cake recipe as well (for allergy-friendly, you can use Sunbutter or Peabutter).
Can you think of a better way to spend one’s birthday (my birthday was this past Saturday) than taste-testing chocolate cakes?
I couldn’t, and so this is exactly what I did!
Anyways, back to the chocolate cake…
What was your BEST birthday ever?
Although my best birthday was probably my 16th, this past birthday came pretty close. When it started to lightning and pour rain around 8 PM, I was initially worried no one would show up.
But the rain quickly dissipated, and I had an amazing night in downtown DC with around 30 close friends, none of whom I knew a year ago.
It was completely terrifying to start over when I first moved to the area, and I think last Saturday was the first time I realized I finally didn’t feel like an outsider anymore.
P.S. If you need ideas for your next birthday, please feel free to steal my idea of spending the day eating chocolate cake!
Watch the video above for how to make a low calorie chocolate cake
100 Calorie Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup spelt, white, or gf ap flour
- 6 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp each: baking soda and salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar of choice or xylitol
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips, optional
- 1/4 cup yogurt (I like nondairy)
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup almond butter, peanut butter, OR allergy-friendly sub – For a nut-free cake, try my Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and grease an 8-in square or round pan. Set aside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, optional chips, and sweetener, and stir very well. (If your nut butter is not stir-able, gently heat it until stir-able.) In a new bowl, whisk together the nut butter, yogurt, water, and vanilla. Pour wet into dry and stir until just combined (don’t over-mix), then pour into the greased pan. Bake 25 minutes or until batter has risen and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out mostly clean. (I like to take it out when it’s still a little undercooked, let it cool, and then set in the fridge overnight. This prevents overcooking, and the cake will still firm up nicely as it sits.) If you can wait, I highly recommend not taking a taste until the next day… this cake is so much richer and sweeter after sitting for a day. Trust me! View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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This was exceptional! Made it for my 7 year olds bday party and everyone just loved it. Thank you!!
I did some alterations to this recipe, since I didn’t have all the listed ingredients.. 🙂
I subbed this:
1 cup all purpose flour –> almond meal
3/4 cup granulated sugar of choice –> 3 tbsp + 6 tsp stevia powder
2 tsp pure vanilla extract –> vanilla powder
Results: the batter was a bit too salty, so I added a squeeze of agave & raspberries!
And the cake was soo good! 🙂
Can I use yogurt instead of the butter
I made this recipe with coconut flour, but the batter is too dry. Did anybody else face the same problem?
You used coconut flour, and that’s not one of the flour options in the recipe. It cannot be substituted in most recipes in a 1-to-1 ratio.
I just posted about it! Yes I had to add milk x
Where is the frosting recipe?!
https://lett-trim.today/2012/05/04/reeses-pieces-fudge-frosting/%3C/a%3E 🙂
Wow. I think I love u. Keep The low cal chocolate recipes comin please!!!
Could maple syrup be used instead of sugar/ sweetener?
Hi,
Waiting to
Try this recipe. Instead of vegan yogurt can I use nut milk
With vinegar? Please let me know as I do not get vegan yogurt here.
Thanks,
Radhika
Hi, just use this one 🙂 https://lett-trim.today/2017/07/24/vegan-chocolate-cake-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
AMAZING taste for the ingredients used. 1/4 almond butter as the only fat? Excellent. I even scaled the sugar back to 2/3C and it was great, sprinkled 2T mini chocolate chips on top but no additions/frostings are necessary really, tastes like a true chocolate cake as is.
HI,
So I used the ingredients below and entered it into my recipe builder with 9 servings and got 185 per slice. Please explain how you only got 95.
Thank you.
0.50 tsp, Leavening agents, baking soda
0.50 tsp, Salt
0.50 cup(s), Special Dark Chocolate Chips
0.25 cup, Yogurt- Greek 0%
0.75 cup (8 fl oz), Water
0.25 cup(s), Almond Butter
2 tsp, Pure Vanilla Extract
6 Tbsp, Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder
1 cup, Spelt white
1/2 cup truvia Baking Blend
Chocolate chips are optional in the recipe 😉
This tasted too good to be true so I also manually (not online calculator) added up the ingredients. I used 1/2 cup granulated Stevia + 1/4 cup sugar for the sugars. Used reduced fat peanut butter. I did use the the chocolate chips but omitted them when adding up the calories because they are listed as optional. Total without chips is 1124 or 125 calories when cut into 9 pc. With the chips the total per serving goes up to 187 cal.
Hi Katie. This is a delicious cake, but the calorie count is misleading. With chocolate chips, according to MyFitnessPal, this clocks in at 202 calories per slice without any frosting. I’m counting calories, and I can certainly make room for a treat like this, but on a 1400-calorie diet, 100 calories makes a huge difference. I’d suggest updating the title of the recipe to be 200-calorie cake!
Hi Carly, the chocolate chips are optional so not counted in nutrition facts. You can leave them out and it will still be delicious 🙂
Jason