I've never made this, but it was on the Dr. Oz show, and I've heard it's
really good.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Never-Get-Sick Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Serves 12
Cake
1 2/3 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tsp baking soda
3 1/2 cups pitted dates, divided
1 cup pineapple chunks in own juice, drained
1 banana
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 cup raw beets, shredded
3/4 cup raw carrots, shredded
1/2 cup raw zucchini, shredded
3 tbsp natural, nonalkalized cocoa powder
1/2 cup currants
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 1/2 cups water
2 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate Nut Icing
1 cup raw macademia nuts and/or raw cashews
1 cup vanilla soy, hemp or
almond milk
2/3 cup pitted dates
1/3 cup brazil nuts or hazelnuts
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a small
bowl. Set aside.
In blender or food processor, purée 3 cups of the dates, pineapple, banana and
applesauce. Slice remaining 1/2 cup dates into 1/4-inch pieces.
In large bowl, mix sliced dates, beets, carrots, zucchini, cocoa powder,
currants, walnuts, water, vanilla and flour mixture. Add the blended mixture and
mix well.
Spread in a 9 x 13-inch nonstick baking pan.
Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
For the icing, use a high-powered blender and combine all icing ingredients
until smooth and creamy. Spread on cooled cake.
--- On Wed, 3/27/13, Desi Noller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Desi Noller <[email protected]>
> Subject: [CnD] Healthy Chocolate Cake
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 4:21 PM
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm looking for "healthier" recipes for chocolate
> cake. I am on a continuing quest to lose some weight,
> but my husband's Birthday is coming up in just over a week,
> and because we both have high blood pressure and high
> Cholesterol, I'd like to find a recipe that would get us
> both in as little trouble as possible! I know there
> are some alternative chocolate cake recipes out there, but
> I'm wondering if any of you have tried them, and if so,
> would you be willing to share them with me? Thanks!
>
> Desi
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