Pearlsofeast: Guilt free- Warm chocolate fudge cake

The moment we picture our self eating cakes and cookies we instantly dread the calories loaded in it. That’s what stop us from having sinful cakes. I always love baking cakes and I think it is a kind of passion in me to always try out new recipes.

I do subscribe few magazines and the tempting picture in it drives me insane. This cake was so tempting and it was featured in low cal section. Usually the chocolate cakes have 26 g fat per serve but this cake is only 9.3 g fat per serve. Wow what a reduction!!!

I have bake it couple of times and it was always irresistible for my family. It is very simple cake without any raising agents and extra butter.The hazelnut meal also adds a nutty flavor to the cake.The original recipe had called for a good quality dark chocolate approx 75 % cocoa .This time I made a slight variation of using orange flavored chocolate. The orange and chocolate combination is always divine.

I personally have an addiction to orange flavored cookies or cakes. I have also tried these cakes using plain dark chocolate and adding fresh orange zest. The original recipe is adapted from October2007 edition of Superfoodideas It is an Australian magazine and I am a loyal subscriber of this wonderful magazine. I have been a regular reader for last 5 years and since having moved from Sydney to Beijing . My husband subscribed the magazine for me. So every month I have some new tempting recipes knocking at minds doorstep and also thanks to the creative food blogging website where there is no limit our imagination.

Ingredients

½ cup boiling water
½ cup cocoa powder
¾ cup sugar
1/3 cup plain flour
1/3 cup hazelnut meal
80g darkchoclate with 75 % cocoa ( melted)
2 eggs
1tbslp orange zest
Walnuts ( optional)

Method

Mix the boiling water and cocoa until smooth. Add melted chocolate, hazelnut meal,plain flour, sugar, eggs and orange zest .Using a hand blender whisk until well incorporated.

Preheat oven to 180’c and grease a muffin tin. Pour the batter and fill the muffin holes .Bake for 15 mins.

serve warm.

If you don’t mind having a slightly calorie loaded dessert for the evening , here is a wonderful option of having it with a scoope of vanilla ice-cream and drizzled with warm chocolate syrup.