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Healthy-ish Chocolate Cake

Total Time
44 min
20m prep · 24m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🌱 Vegan 🥬 Vegetarian 🥛 Dairy-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

I started out trying to make healthy brownies and ended up with this moist and healthy chocolate cake!

Ingredients

  • 0.67 cups agave nectar
  • 0.5 cups unsweetened applesauce
  • 0.5 cups raw sugar
  • 2 eggs , beaten
  • 1 tablespoon sunflower seed oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1.67 cups all-purpose flour
  • 0.5 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 0.33 cups coconut flour
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups shredded zucchini
  • 0.5 cups chopped walnuts

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x13-inch baking dish with parchment paper.

  2. 2

    Beat agave nectar, applesauce, raw sugar, eggs, sunflower oil, and vanilla extract together in a large bowl. Whisk all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt together in another bowl. Add flour mixture to applesauce mixture and stir until combined.

  3. 3

    Fold zucchini and walnuts into applesauce mixture until batter is evenly-mixed. Spread batter into prepared baking dish.

  4. 4

    Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Per serving

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