Heart Healthy Flourless Chocolate Cake

(5.0)
By Judy Capodanno
Published 2/7/2022
Dietitian Reviewed: Jane Schwartz, RDN, CLT
Approved for These Diets:
Heart Healthy | Gluten Free | Diabetic | Vegetarian

Here’s a quick and easy recipe for a heart healthy flourless chocolate cake that’s perfect for a low calorie or low cholesterol diet. This heart healthy cake recipe calls for just eight ingredients, two of them are chocolate. We whisk sugar free cocoa and healthy dark chocolates with a little sugar for sweetness to create a decadently rich and fudgy heart-healthy chocolate cake that’s ready in 45 minutes.

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Total Time
45 minutes
Servings
12
Calories
162
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Why You’ll Love This Heart Healthy Cake

The secret to making a heart healthy chocolate cake is to reduce the sugar and limit saturated fat. This healthy cake recipe mixes unsweetened cocoa powder and heart healthy dark chocolate pieces with egg whites, butter and only a half cup of sugar to create an unbelievably rich healthy cake. 

Congratulations on finding the best healthy flourless chocolate cake recipe for all your healthy guests. Use this cake recipe to proudly make a healthy chocolate dessert for friends who follow a gluten free diet or a diabetic diet, too. 

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Ingredients

Recipe yields 12 servings

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How to Make Flourless Chocolate Cake

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 375° and lightly coat an 8-inch round baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line bottom with a round of wax paper or parchment paper. In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave butter and chocolate on high for 20 seconds, stir, and continue to microwave at 20-second intervals until melted. Remove from microwave and whisk mixture until smooth.

  2. Step 2

    Whisk granulated sugar into chocolate mixture. Add egg whites, oil and vanilla and whisk well. Sift cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined.

  3. Step 3

    Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in middle of oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack for 5 minutes. Turn onto a serving plate.

  4. Step 4

    Dust cake with confectioners sugar.

  5. Step 5

    (After being cooled completely, cake keeps in an airtight container for 1 week.)

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size:
3/4-inch slice

162
Calories
11
g
Fat
22
mg
Cholesterol
81
mg
Sodium
17
g
Carbs
6
g
Sat. Fat
1
g
Fiber
2
g
Protein
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