Chocolate and orange. A match made in heaven if you ask me. Typically you see chocolate and strawberry, or chocolate and raspberry paired together. I think people often don’t think about how delicious chocolate and orange is together.
I created this Chocolate Orange Protein Cake with Chocolate Icing as I wanted a decadent cake that was fit for a snack. The icing is a bit sweet, as I used real icing sugar, but the cake itself is really great without the icing at all.
If you don’t want to go to the trouble of making an actual icing, melting some chocolate chips and spreading onto the cooled cake would be a great alternative.
For a sugar free icing, another option would be melting coconut oil, mixing with cocoa powder and adding stevia. Icing options are endless really, so feel free to get creative!
I just happened to want mine to taste like a healthified chocolate cake, and I definitely accomplished that.
Who says you have to just have chocolate cake a couple times a year? Not I! Keep a napkin handy after eating one, cause I’ll warn you…your face will most likely be covered in cake 😉
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk of choice (I used unsweetened almond milk)
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 2 tsp orange zest (about the zest from 1 orange)
- ⅓ cup unsweetened applesauce (1 snack pack)
- ¾ cup non-fat greek yogurt
- 12 packets stevia (or 100 drops liquid stevia)
- 1½ cups oat flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup chocolate whey protein (or add an extra ½ cup oat flour)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup chocolate chips
- 2 Tbsp butter, softened
- 3 Tbsp lower fat cream cheese
- 2 cups icing (confectioners) sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3-4 Tbsp milk
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x11 inch pan with cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix together all the wet ingredients and stevia (eggs through to stevia in list).
- Then add in the dry ingredients to the wet and mix in (oat flour to salt)
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour batter into your pan. Bake for 18 or so minutes, until cooked through (may test with a toothpick).
- Allow to cool. Meanwhile, mix together frosting (if using)
- Spread frosting over cooled cake and cut into 24 squares.
- Store in the fridge after 1 day, or freeze for up to a few weeks.
Calories: 61 Fat: 2.1 g Carbs: 8.4 g Fiber: 1.5 g Sugars: 2.3 g Sodium: 55 mg Protein: 4.4 g