Sugar Free Chocolate Cake Food

SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 round 9-inch cake pans.
• For the cake, put flour, Splenda, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix well.
• In a stand mixer, mix the buttermilk, oil, eggs, vanilla together. Slowly add in the mix of dry ingredients while the mixer is on low. Add the coffee and make sure everything is combined. The batter will be very thin.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Turn the cakes out onto a cooling rack. While the cakes are cooling, make the frosting.
• Using a hand mixer, whip the softened cream cheese in a large bowl until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
• In another bowl, mix together the milk and sugar free pudding mix, whisking until smooth.
• Add the pudding, one spoonful at a time to the cream cheese, beating between each addition. Be careful not to add this too quickly or it won't mix in well.
• After you've added in all of the pudding, fold in the whipped topping and mix gently until completely combined.
• Place one cake layer on a plate.
• Spoon and smooth about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of frosting over the first cake layer.
• Place the second cake on top.
• Frost the top and outside of the cake (if desired) with the remaining frosting.
• Refrigerate the cake until serving. The frosting will soften and "melt" as it is at room temperature so be sure to keep the cake cold!

SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare coffee: Make the instant coffee and let cool to room temperature. (putting it in the fridge helps to cool it quickly)
• Preheat oven/prepare tin: Line a 22 cm springform tin with baking paper on the bottom, and grease the sides of the tin with butter. Preheat oven to 175 degrees C or 350 degrees F.
• Mix Dry Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder.
• Whisk Eggs: Use a whisk to beat together the eggs, granulated sweetener and vanilla until fluffy and pale. Hand whisk for about 1 - 2 minutes o make sure sweetener is dissolved.
• Add Wet Ingredients to eggs: Melt butter in microwave and to the egg mixture, along with the sour cream and cooled instant coffee. Whisk vigourously until all the lumps are gone and it is smooth, silky and a caramel like colour. (about 2 minutes or so)
• Combine Dry and Wet Ingredients: Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in wet ingredient mixture. Use a spatula to mix through, making sure to blend in all the flour. Set Aside.
• Melt Chocolate: Microwave chocolate until its only just melted (suggest microwaving at 50% power in 30 second spurts until it reaches that "just melted"stage)
• Pour Chocolate and Milk into Batter: Add the melted chocolate, along with the milk to the cake batter and gently stir through with spatula to create a thick dark batter.
• Bake: Bake for 30 minutes. To test if cake is cooked, insert a skewer into the centre. If it comes out clean, almost clean with few crumbs, cake is cooked. Let cool on a wire rack before slicing. Store in an air tight container at room temperature for 3 to 4 days.

SUGAR FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Directions.
• In a small saucepan warm the 1/2 cup milk, 1/3 cup Granulated Splenda, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Add in the 1/4 cup Hershey's Unsweetened cocoa powder and mix until blended. Pour the chocolate into a cup or small bowl for use later.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a medium mixing bowl beat the two eggs. Add in the 1 cup granulated Splenda, 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1/8 teaspoon (or a pinch) of salt, 2/3 cup powdered milk, 2/3 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 cup vegetable oil. Combine. Add in the chocolate from earlier, and mix til blended. Add the 1/2 cup milk a little at a time to thin the batter. It should be just a little watery.
• Pour into a buttered round nine-inch pan. Should take about 20 minutes to cook depending on the oven. Check it at 15 to get an idea about how much longer to leave it. When a toothpick comes out clean from the center, then it's done. The cake should be fluffy, but more cohesive than regular cake. It won't fall apart. Almost reminds me of a sponge, but fluffier -- Tastes good though.
• The cake I made was in a glass rectangle pan (not very wide), and it came out an inch thick. For my purposes that was fine, but if you want a taller cake, it would be a good idea to make two and have the cake be two layers to make up height. If you can find a good sugar free frosting recipe or put sugar free pudding in the center between layers that would make it even better. Or if you can double the recipe. I don't know how that works. I think it involves math of some kind, something about not doubling the salt or sugar or something.