Created By: Jessica Seinfeld
Difficutly: easy
Time: 1 Hour
Portion: 12 servings
Ingredients:
Cakes:
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• ¼ tsp. salt
• ½ cup light olive oil
• 1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar
• 2 egg whites
• ½ cup spinach puree
• 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• ½ cup low-fat buttermilk
Filling:
• 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
• 1 ¼ cups confectioners sugar
• 2 cups marshmallow cream
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Directions:
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Whisk together flours, cocoa, baking soda and powder, and salt in a bowl.
2. In a standing mixer, beat the oil and brown sugar with an electric mixer at medium speed until well combined. Add egg whites and mix on low until well blended. Blend in spinach puree and vanilla.
3. Alternately add in the flour mixture and the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.
4. Coat 2 large baking sheets with cooking spray. Place tablespoon-fuls of batter about 2 inches apart onto baking sheets. Bake until cakes are cooked through and spring back to the touch, 8-10 mins.
Make the filling. With an electric mixer, beat together all the ingredients until smooth. Spread a rounded tablespoonful of filling on the flat sides of half the cakes, and top with the remaining cakes.