Low-Fat Devil's Chocolate Fudge Cake

1 cup water
1/2 cup prune puree* or prepared prune butter
3 egg whites
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup plus 2 tbsp. flour
1 cup plus 2 tbsp. sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Icing:
2-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup low fat milk.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch square pan with cooking spray. In a mixer bowl, combine water, prune puree, egg whites and vanilla. Beat thoroughly to blend. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat dry ingredients into liquid mixture. Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake about 30 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool on rack in pan. Serve dusted with powdered sugar or with the following icing.

Icing:
Combine ingredients. Spread on cooled cake.

Comments from Sylvia Steiger :

*To prepare prune puree, simmer 1/2 c prunes in water to cover for about 10 minutes. Let stand until cool. Drain well. Force the prunesthrough a sieve, leaving behind the skin particles and seeds.


This recipe for all of you healthy chocolate freaks. This recipe comes from an article about fruit, since it uses prune puree instead of fat. My one gripe, about which I have written to the paper, is that they do NOT do a nutrition alanalysis of a recipe, even though they call it low-fat. However, those of us who are experienced in baking low-fat can see that there is little fat in this cake.

User Reviews:

This cake has excellent flavour and texture and still hard to believe it's low-fat.

submitted by hypern on December 09, 2004

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