'nothing Goes To Waist' Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 40 g dried prunes
• 40 g dried dates
• 1 egg
• 2 egg whites
• 2 tablespoons low-fat drinking cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 300 g fat-free sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 7 g granulated artificial sweetener
• 100 g self raising flour
• 3 cups skim milk
• 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons cornflour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• artificial sweetener

Recipe

• 1 place the dates and prunes in a sauce pan with a couple of teaspoons of water or apple juice and heat until liquid is gone and fruit is softened.
• 2 beat fruit until pureed and place in mixing bowl.
• 3 one at a time add the eggs, vanilla essence, condensed milk, golden syrup, sweetener and chocolate powders. mix well.
• 4 finally fold in the flour and put the mixture into a greased cake tin (use low calorie cooking spray, if preferred.).
• 5 bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes until risen and a fork comes out clean.
• 6 icing (double and add more corn/cocoa powder, if desired):.
• 7 to make the icing place all of the ingredients (minus the sweetener) in a non stick saucepan and mix well before gently heating until the mixture is just boiling & thickened well.
• 8 add granulated sweetener to taste.