Low Fat Chocolate Bundt Cake/Pound Cake
- 34 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder, plus
- 1 tablespoon Dutch-processed cocoa powder, 80 gm (do NOT sub regular baking cocoa!!!)
- 2 14 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 2 large eggs
- 4 large egg whites
- 38 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 38 teaspoon baking powder
- 34 cup low-fat buttermilk
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 6 ounces unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
- 2 23 cups granulated sugar
- Have all ingredients at room temperature.
- Position the rack in lower third of the oven.
- Preheat to 350.
- Spray pans with vegetable oil spray.
- Weigh & whisk or sift together well flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- Whisk the whole eggs with the egg whites in a small bowl; set aside.
- Dissolve the espresso powder in 3 tablespoons warm water and combine with the vanilla and buttermilk in a small bowl.
- Cut the butter into chunks and place in an electric mixer bowl.
- Beat to soften, about 1 minute.
- Add sugar gradually, beating constantly for about 3 minutes at medium speed.
- Gradually dribble eggs into sugar mixture, beating at medium-high speed for 2 to 3 minutes.
- On medium-low speed, beat in a third of the flour mixture, scraping the bowl as necessary.
- On medium speed, gradually dribble in half of the buttermilk mixture, scraping the bowl as necessary.
- On low speed, beat in half of the remaining flour followed by the rest of the buttermilk scraping the bowl as necessary.
- Beat in remaining flour mixture until well combined.
- It is OK if batter looks slightly curdled.
- Scrape batter into the pan or pans and smooth the top as necessary.
- Bake until the cake just starts to shrink away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out barely clean.
- Do not overbake.
- A 6-cup bundt cake will be done in 3540 minutes, a tube or large bundt pan in 50 to 55 minutes; an 8-inch layer takes about 40 minutes and loaves 4550 minutes.
- Cool cake, in the pan, on a rack for 10 minutes.
- Invert and remove pan.
- Turn right side up if baked in loaves.
- (I nearly always make this in a nordicware bundt pan.
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- MAKE IT AHEAD: Cake remains moist and delicious for 4 to 5 days, well wrapped.
- Cake may also be frozen for up to 2 months.
- I serve this with Mean Chef's chocolate ganache, which, of course, completely negates any inkling of low-fat sanctimony!
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/low-fat-chocolate-bundt-cake-pound-cake-149701 (may not work)