Healthy Oatmeal Cocoa Cake with Date-Yogurt Frosting
Recipe summary
A soft, fluffy, and healthy cake made with oats, cocoa, eggs, and honey, topped with a creamy date-yogurt frosting. No flour or sugar, perfect for a clean-eating dessert.
Ingredients
- 130g rolled oats (1¼ cups)
- 21g cocoa powder (2 tbsp)
- 20g ground coconut (¼ cup)
- ½ tbsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 eggs
- Zest of 1 lime
- 55g honey (3 tbsp)
- 20g melted butter (3 tbsp) or coconut oil
- ½ tbsp vinegar
- 80g milk (½ cup)
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder (for topping)
- 5 pitted dates (for topping)
- 110g Greek yogurt (for topping)
- 1 tbsp milk (for topping, add more if needed)
- Desiccated coconut for garnish
Method
- 1
Preheat your oven or prepare your cooking method as needed.
- 2
In a bowl, combine rolled oats, cocoa powder, ground coconut, baking powder, and baking soda.
- 3
In another bowl, whisk eggs, lime zest, honey, melted butter or coconut oil, vinegar, and milk.
- 4
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until well combined.
- 5
Pour the batter into a suitable baking dish or mold.
- 6
Bake or cook the cake for about 5 minutes or until soft and fluffy.
- 7
For the topping, blend cocoa powder, pitted dates, Greek yogurt, and milk until smooth.
- 8
Spread the creamy date-yogurt frosting over the cooled cake.
- 9
Garnish with desiccated coconut.
- 10
Serve and enjoy your healthy, sugar-free, flour-free cake.
Source details
ChefScribe structured this recipe from the original YouTube source. The original recipe credit remains with the creator.
Original video
Source video from Healthy Crumbs. The recipe card keeps the ingredients and steps handy while you cook.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWyh3oIYEoo
