Best Ever Healthy Devil's Food Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 1/2 cups 2% buttermilk
• 4 ounces 60% cacao chocolate chips
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup applesauce
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/4 cup cake flour
• 1/4 cup dark unsweetened cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 (8 ounce) reduced-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
• 6 ounces cool whip lite
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar (maybe a little bit more)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f. on a double boiler melt 1 cup of buttermilk and chocolate chips. let it cool.
• 2 mix eggs, applesauce, sugar, remaining buttermilk, and vanilla. beat until combined.
• 3 sift flours, cocoa powder, baking soda, and cream of tartar into a bowl. gradually add dry ingredients to wet ones and combine.
• 4 add melted chocolate stirring at the same time as you incorporate the melted chocolate into the bowl.
• 5 grease and flour a 9 inch spring from pan and add cake butter into the pan.
• 6 bake for 40 to 50 minutes depending on the oven. cool in pan before frosting.
• 7 for the frosting, combine cream cheese and sugar with electric mixer. fold whip cream and frost cake. decorate as desired.