Chocolo


Ingredients:

1-2/3 cups (400 mL) all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (250 mL) brown sugar
1/2 cup (125 mL) crystal sugar
3/4 cup unsalted margarine, softened
1 whole egg
2 egg whites
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 (175 mL) cup boiling water

Icing:

2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup light sour cream
2 tablespoons coffee or chocolate flavored liqueur

Makes 15-18 servings.


Preparation:
  • Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa and salt.
  • In separate bowl beat margarine and brown sugar until fluffy.
  • Still beating add egg and egg whites, vanilla, yogurt and sour cream, mix well.
  • Preheat oven to 375 F and grease 13x9 cake pan.
  • Gradually add flour mixture to cake batter and mix until mixture is well combined.
  • Still beating, add in boiling water, scrape down sides of bowl and continue to mix until is combined.
  • Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
  • Bake in preheated oven 30-35 minutes or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
  • Let cake cool completely on rack.
  • Prepare icing and spread over cake.
To Prepare Icing:
  • In medium bowl melt chocolate, stir in sour cream and liqueur and beat until smooth. 
  • Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Spread icing over cake and decorate as desired.

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Did You Know?
Of the various components that are found in the human body, water occurs in the largest quantity. As a food substance, it is an extremely important feature of a person's diet. Its chief purpose is to replenish the liquids of the body and to assist in the digestion of food.

Although nature provides considerable amounts of water in most foods, large quantities must be taken in the diet as a beverage. In fact, it is the need of the body for water that has led to the development of numerous beverages. Besides being necessary in building up the body and keeping it in a healthy condition, water has a special function to perform in food preparation and cooking.

Ranking next to water in the quantity contained in the human body is mineral matter. This constituent, which is also called ash or mineral salts, forms the main part of the body's framework, or skeleton.

In the building and maintaining of the body, mineral salts serve three purposes--to give rigidity and permanence to the skeleton, to form an essential element of active tissue, and to provide the required alkalinity or acidity for the digestive juices and other secretions.

Plants in their growth seize from the earth the salts of minerals and combine them with other substances that make up their living tissue. Then human beings, as well as other living creatures, get their supply of these needed salts from the plants that they take as food, this being the only form in which the salts can be thoroughly assimilated.