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Chocolate Frosted Yellow Cake

Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 2¼ cups cake flour
  • 2¼ teaspoons baking power
  • 4 tablespoons margarine
  • 1¼ cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon orange peel
  • ¾ cup skim milk
  • Icing:
  • 3 ounces low fat cream cheese
  • 2 tablespoons skim milk
  • 6 tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
  1. Preheat the over to 325ºF.
  2. Grease with small amount of cooking oil or use nonstick cooking oil spray on a 10-inch round pan (at least 2½ inches high).  Powder pan with flour.  Tap out excess flour.
  3. Sift together flour and baking powder.
  4. In a separate bowl, beat together margarine and sugar until soft and creamy.
  5. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and orange peel.
  6. Gradually add the flour mixture alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with flour.
  7. Pour the mixture into the pan.  Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until done.  Let cake cool for 5 to 10 minutes before removing from the pan.  Let cool completely before icing.

Icing:

  1. Cream together cream cheese and milk until smooth.  Add cocoa.  Blend well.
  2. Slowly add sugar until icing is smooth.  Mix in vanilla.
  3. Smooth icing over top and sides of cooled cake.
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Prep Time
30 min
Nutrition Facts
  • Servings per Recipe: 16
  • Serving Size: 1/16th of cake
    • Calories: 228
    • Calories from Fat: 47
  • Total Fat: 5
  • Cholesterol: 56 mg
  • Sodium: 131 mg
  • Carbohydrate: 42 g
  • Dietary Fiber: .5 g
  • Protein: .5 g
  • Exchange: 3 starch, 1 fat
  • Carbohydrate Units: 3