Low Fat Chocolate Cake With Greek Yogurt

Greek yogurt is the key to this moist chocolate cake that s low in fat and super quick and easy to make with basic ingredients.

Low fat chocolate cake with greek yogurt.

1 1 2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder. It is no secret that i love baking with yogurt see here here and here. Swap out the semi sweet chocolate chips for dark chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or use a mixture of what you have on hand use 1 2 cup baking chips like caramel chips or toffee. Variations on chocolate yogurt cake.

1 cup coconut oil or canola oil coconut oil should be liquified 4 large eggs 2 large egg yolks. I have a list of family recipes that i want to create lighter versions of like my grandma s chocolate sheet cake and i knew that this was the perfect opportunity to create a lighter version of my great aunt s sour cream pound cake. Greek yogurt helps it stay rich and moist you won t miss the fat. You can use any whole milk yogurt for this cake if you don t like greek yogurt try flavored yogurt like chocolate coffee or vanilla yogurt too.

3 3 4 cups all purpose flour. 1 cup whole milk. Beat with electric mixer on low speed until blended then beat on high speed for 2 minutes longer. Crushed pineapple low fat pineapple yogurt lemon yellow cake mix greek yogurt cake soaked in syrup recipe yiaourtopita my greek dish sugar eggs vanilla extract baking powder orange butter self rising flour and 6 more.

There is absolutely no oil or butter in this skinny chocolate cake but you wouldn t know it. Sift flour cocoa cornstarch baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Yogurt can replace most or all of the fat in a lot of recipes while still giving you moist and tender. I love the original sour cream pound cake but it s full of butter.

Skinny low fat chocolate cake. 1 teaspoons baking soda. 1 cup water 1 cup water. For the greek yogurt chocolate cake.

Coat two 9 inch cake pans with cooking spray then dust with flour. 3 1 4 cups granulated sugar. 1 cup full fat greek yogurt. Add yogurt granulated sugar dark brown sugar oil eggs and vanilla to bowl.

For either recipe each small serving 1 24th of recipe has around 100 calories 3 g fat 17 g. 2 teaspoons baking powder. Low fat chocolate yogurt cake. This moist chocolate yogurt cake made with whole wheat flour cocoa powder and a touch of black coffee keeps for several days if well wrapped if it lasts that long.

Updated with new photos tips and recipe tweeks 6 19 18.