I love chocolate souffle. When I was overweight, it was one of my favourite desserts, I mean what isn’t to like? It is a little pot of butter, chocolate, eggs and sugar. Well what isn’t to like is that one little pot has around 300 calories and a lot of fat. Of course that is fine once in a while, but if your cravings for chocolate dessert are as often as mine, then you will want something a little lighter. These have no butter in them and they are naturally sweetened with dates (you could used dried apricots too). If you don’t want to use dates, then switch the dates and water for honey, agave or maple syrup – but this will change the nutritional value. These are also very low in fat as well.
This is a recipe I have been working on for a long time and it came down to trial and error. If you have ever made souffle before, you will know it is pretty much an exact science, trying to get it to rise.
I will apologise for the pictures not being great as with souffle, as soon as they come out of the oven, they start to sink. So by the time the camera was positioned properly, they had started to sink. But don’t let that put you off as they are delicious.
As well as being a perfect dessert to cure your sweet tooth, these would be a nice healthy dessert to serve at a dinner party.
Ingredients – Serves 2:
- 15g/0.125 cup cocoa powder
- 1 egg white
- 2 tbsp plain flour (I used wholewheat but you could use almond or coconut)
- 8 pitted dates
- 5 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 60ml/0.25 cup milk (I used skimmed, but use which ever you normally would)
1) Put the dates and the water in a food processor and blend until it forms a paste
2) Whisk the egg white until it forms a stiff peak.
3) Put the cocoa powder, flour, milk, vanilla and date paste in a small pan and heat on low for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
4) Tip the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and gently fold it together, but not too much as you don’t want to let the air out of it.
5) Divide the mixture between 2 greased ramekins and put in a preheated oven (at 200C/380F) for 15 minutes.
6) Serve immediately.
Nutritional Information – per person:
Calories: 174
Fat: 2
Carbs: 32
Protein: 6.5
Fibre: 3.5
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making these now, cant wait to see how they turn out! feel all chef like trying to make souffle lol
Hi, where do you buy your dates from? I can’t seem to find any which don’t have syrup/sugar added. I am from the UK too.
Hi Maria,
I buy mine from a local health store in Manchester called Unicorn.
I can have dessert and lose weight? I love our blog even more now!
I just saw these on Facebook. I have pinned them to make next week as I am on a juice fast at the moment
Chocolate dessert is my weakness. I hope this tastes as good as it sounds.
I love your chocolate desserts, they are so creative. I will be trying this one too
These sound amazing. I made your enchiladas last night as well and they were so good. There are definitely going to be made again.
I have only recently discovered your blog from a recipe I found on pinterest and I just love it. So many great ideas.
I love your dessert recipes. I used to use hungry girls recipes all the time because they were lo in calories, but that is because they were full of artificial sweetener. Your blog and Facebook page has taught me that a few extra calories when they are from real food is better than lower calories that comes from artificial crap. I thank you for that.
Hi. I just saw your comment in Lauren’s forum. So I thought I’d check your blog out and I actually really like it! Maybe you’d like to check mine out as well
it’s http://vickynspiration.blogspot.com . We bloggers have to stick together!
xx
I am going to make this for my boyfriend tomorrow – he loves anything with chocolate on it, but I am trying to drop 25lbs.
I am going to make this tomorrow, but use orange essence instead of vanilla. I love chocolate and orange.
Thanks for the recipe x
Yummy. These sound delicious. So low in fat too
Souffle is my FAVORITE dessert. I am drooling just thinking about these. I agree with the first comment – thanks for everything you do. I can’t wait for your book.
I have all these ingredients (I have the dates left over from your amazing brownies) and I am so making this for dessert tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
oh my god! You might actually be a genius! Thank you so much for using your free time to make all these recipes for us, especially the ones that take trial and error. I think I speak for everyone when I say we really appreciate it.