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Clean Eating Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Chocolate Cake

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 12
Author Brenda Bennett

Ingredients

  • Chocolate Cake
  • 2 ½ cups white whole wheat flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 cup plain Greek nonfat yogurt
  • 1 cup brown rice syrup or honey
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
  • 12 egg whites or 1 ¾ cup 100% pasteurized egg whites
  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
  • 2 tablespoons softened butter
  • ¼ cup brown rice syrup or honey or sucanat
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • cup white whole wheat flour or whole wheat flour
  • ¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • pinch salt
  • ½ cup chocolate chips grain sweetened or 70% cocoa or higher, or sugar free if you can find them
  • Chocolate Syrup
  • ¼ cup chocolate chips
  • 3 tablespoons milk 1%

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Make chocolate chip cookie dough first by combining all ingredients, except chocolate chips, in a bowl and mix well to combine.
  • Once combined stir in chocolate chips. lay waxed paper onto a baking sheet and using a tablespoon drop cookie dough onto sheet. Make 16.
  • Cover loosely with waxed paper and place in freezer for 10-15 minutes. Prepare chocolate cake: In a large bowl combine first 5 ingredients together. In a small bowl, mix together the next 6 ingredients.
  • Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until incorporated. Do not over mix.
  • In a stand mixer or using an electric beater, beat egg whites until soft peaks form.
  • Using a rubber spatula, fold egg whites into cake batter.
  • Batter may be a little lumpy, do not over mix.
  • Pour batter into a 10 inch spring form nonstick pan.
  • Remove cookie dough from freezer and evenly drop into cake batter.
  • Bake 45 minutes or until top of cake cracks and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for an hour on a wire rack.
  • Once cooling, make the chocolate drizzle by set a small bowl over a pot of barely simmering water.
  • Add chocolate and continue to stir until melted.
  • Add milk until smooth.
  • Drizzle over cake and let cool.