Churro Cake
Fluffy Churro flavoured cake dipped in melted chocolate to full fill all of your Churro cravings -- with only half the fat!
Weight Watchers: 3pp per slice
Weight Watchers: 3pp per slice
Servings: 21 slices
Calories: 101kcal
Ingredients
Churro Cake
- ⅔ cup lightly packed brown sugar or muscavado sugar
- ½ cup natural sweetener or your sugar of choice
- ½ cup light butter , room temperature (or sub with spread of choice)
- 2 tablespoons apple sauce (or extra butter/spread of choice)
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups plain flour (all-purpose)
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch salt
- ⅔ cup unsweetened almond milk
- Cinnamon sugar
Optional:
- 1/4 cup melted chocolate OR a Clean Chocolate Sauce (See recipe below)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 176C | 350F. Grease a square 8-8-inch baking tray with cooking oil spray, and wipe over with a paper towel.
- In a bowl, whisk brown sugar, sweetener/sugar, butter and apple sauce until. Add egg and vanilla and whisk again until light and creamy.
- In a smaller bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Gradually beat in the dry ingredients.
- Pour the milk into the batter, and mix well. Do not over beat batter.
- Pour batter into prepared baking tray and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake until golden, about 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Cool completely before spreading with melted chocolate of choice, or a clean chocolate sauce.
Chocolate Sauce: To make your own Chocolate Sauce, combine and mix the following
- tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- teaspoons natural sweetener/sugar of choice
- tablespoons warm water, or enough to mix into your desired consistency
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition calculated excluding melted chocolate, as this is completely optional!
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 101kcal | Carbohydrates: 18.7g | Protein: 2.7g | Fat: 2.4g | Fiber: 0.3g