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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Hey! Do you think this would work with erythritol sugar substitute, pb2’s powdered peanut butter, and cassava flour?
It looks scrumptious but I notice the picture shows frosting and there is no mention of frosting in the recipe. I guess to keep it to 100 calories, you can’t have frosting?
Oh wow Katie should have mentioned that in the post, thank you for pointing that out! We are going to edit the post to mention it, and here is the link to the optional frosting she used: https://lett-trim.today/basic-chocolate-cream-cheese-frosting/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Hi,
I’m trying to lose weight and get chocolate cravings at times and need to eat chocolate. However if I force myself to not have chocolate then I end up eating all the chocolate in the house. So I seen this recipe and would like to try. What is the yogurt for and what can I substitute it for? Eggs etc. Also instead of sugar can I use date paste????
I’ve made this cake it’s absolutely outstanding! However can I use this recipe without the Coco? Adding just chocolate chips?
Hi! Maybe try this vanilla cake? https://lett-trim.today/vegan-cake-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Only 3 stars because I made the recipe and added up all the ingredients in my fitness pal and this is 200 calorie chocolate cake. NOT 100 calories. That is double the calories advertised. But it was good cake.
Hi, did you use regular or dutch-processed cocoa? In my country, we usually use dutch-processed for baking, but i have regular cocoa too, if it tastes better.
Hi, if you have both then do a mix if you can! We like 4 tbsp regular and 2 tbsp dutch 🙂
Great, thanks for advice!
What about the icing on the cake? You didn’t include that. And does the icing add additional calories? Would love to know. Thanks!
Hii!! 🥰 love the taste, mine didn’t grow much, it turned out like a brownie
Is it 100 calories for one slice or for the whole cake?
Can I use cacao powder instead of cocoa?
We often use the two interchangeably. As long as you are only subbing it for unsweetened cocoa powder (not dutch cocoa), it should be fine in recipes that call for cocoa.