Skinnier Moist Chocolate Snack Cake Recipes

THE BEST CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees F.
• Set oven to second-lowest rack.
• Grease an 8 x 8-inch square baking pan.
• In a bowl mix together the first 6 dry ingredients.
• In another bowl whisk the water or milk with oil, egg, vinegar and vanilla; add to the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
• Transfer/spread into prepared baking pan.
• Sprinkle chocolate chips and walnuts over batter, swirl with a knife to mix into batter.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until cake tests done.

SKINNYGIRL'S CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH PEANUT BUTTER GLAZE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350°F Put all of the ingredients in a bowl and stir until combined.
• Pour the batter into a loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake 40 to 50 minutes, rotating the pan about halfway through the baking time. When a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean, it's done.
• Let the cake cool completely, then top with Peanut Butter Glaze. Slice & serve.
• For the glaze: Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix with a hand blender until the sugar crystal are dissolved. If they aren't dissolving, you can gently heat the mixture until they do. Heat on low on the stove or on 50 percent power in the microwave, stirring every 20 seconds. Be careful with splattering when blending.

CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and side of 9-inch round pan or 8-inch square pan with shortening; lightly flour.
• In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In small bowl, stir oil, vinegar and vanilla until well mixed. Vigorously stir oil mixture and coffee into flour mixture about 1 minute or until well blended. Immediately pour into pan.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or cool with ice cream.

SKINNIER MOIST CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat bottom of 9-inch X 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
• Throw all the stuff in a big, deep bowl and beat the heck out it with electric mixer; medium speed for 2 minutes. (If you use the optional chips, stir them in last unless you want them pulverized.).
• Spread the batter into prepared pan. Batter will be thick, sorta like a brownie batter.
• Bake for 35 minutes or till top springs back when touched, tester comes out clean and cake starts to pull away from sides of pan.
• NB - I tried something I read in an America's Test Kitchen cookbook - rotated the pan at half-time (~16 minutes). Supposedly, professional bakers do this to achieve an even rise. I do have a level-er than normal-for-me cake so I must have been baking in the dark for the past 40 years. ;-).
• I like it best still warm, straight up without icing or any decorative frou-frou. Feel free to pimp it up if you want to.