Chocolate Cake with Cheese Filling

Name: Chocolate Cake with Cheese Filling
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 1 egg; 3 egg whites; 177 milliliters all-purpose flour; 59 milliliters Kahlúa or other coffee-flavored liqueur; 59 milliliters plain nonfat yogurt; 1 teaspoon powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters sliced fresh strawberries; 59 milliliters sugar; 118 milliliters sugar; 59 milliliters unsweetened cocoa; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 Tbsps vegetable oil

Chocolate Cake with Cheese Filling is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 12 servings with 138 calories, 3g of protein, and 3g of fat each. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, sugar, egg, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Prepare Ricotta Filling.

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Ricotta Cheese

Place in a bowl; cover and chill.

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Bowl

Combine 1/2 cup sugar, oil, and egg in a large bowl; beat at medium speed of a mixer until thick and pale (about 5 minutes).

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Sugar

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Blender

Bowl

Add yogurt and vanilla; beat well.

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Vanilla

Yogurt

Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt; stir well.

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Baking Powder

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Add to egg mixture; beat well. Set batter aside.

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Egg

Beat 3 egg whites (at room temperature) and cream of tartar at high speed of mixer until foamy. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-fourth of egg white mixture into batter; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture.

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Cream Of Tartar

Egg Whites

Sugar

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Blender

Pour batter into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

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Loaf Pan

Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean; let cool in pan 10 minutes.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Remove from pan; let cool completely on a wire rack.

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Wire Rack

Frying Pan

Using a serrated knife, split cake into thirds horizontally.

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Serrated Knife

Brush each of 4 cut sides of cake with 1 tablespoon Kahla.

Place bottom layer, cut side up, on a serving platter; spread with 1 cup Ricotta Filling. Arrange 3/4 cup strawberries over Ricotta Filling, and top with middle cake layer.

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Strawberries

Ricotta Cheese

Spread

Spread cake with remaining Ricotta Filling, and arrange remaining strawberries over Ricotta Filling; top with the remaining cake layer. Cover and chill for 24 hours. To serve, sift powdered sugar over top of cake.

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Powdered Sugar