Chocolate cake for chocolate lovers!

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Chocolate Cake

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Health Check

Apple sauce makes a moister cake with less sugar

Omit icing and serve with berries to further reduce fat and sugar

Preparation Time

20 minutes

Baking Time

35 minutes

Recipe Makes 12 slices

¼ cup mono or polyunsaturated margarine

¼ cup tightly packed brown sugar

¼ cup apple sauce

1 60 g egg, lightly beaten

1⅓ cups buttermilk

1½ cups self-raising flour

½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

8 teaspoons corn syrup

4 teaspoons cocoa

1 cup icing sugar, sifted

½ teaspoon vanilla flavouring

Preparation & Baking

Preheat oven to 180℃. Line a 23cm round cake tin with non-stick baking paper and spray with vegetable oil cooking spray.

Place margarine and brown sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add apple sauce, egg and buttermilk. Mix well.

Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa together, onto a sheet of greaseproof paper. Add to buttermilk and fold in.

Place mixture in prepared tin; spread level with a spatula. Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre of cake comes out clean. Cool in tin on a cooling rack for 15 minutes; turn out onto rack and cool completely.

Icing: combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Stir over a low heat, until smoothly combined. Pour warm icing over cake; stand for 30 minutes before serving.