Healthyfied Chocolate Cake

**sorry, I was too lazy to get out my camera so I took a pic with my cell phone***




The original recipe to this is a pretty typical recipe for a German Chocolate Cake (and by that I mean a chocolate cake as we bake them in Germany). They are a lot more dense than the chocolate cake you get here.

I took the original recipe, cut the sugar by 50 grams and added Flax seed. My husband and I and even my picky kids all really enjoyed the results.

This cake is not very sweet so if you want it sweet, use 200 grams of sugar instead of the 150 that I used.


- 3 eggs
- 200g soft butter (about 1 1/2 sticks)
- 150g sugar (use 200 for sweater results)
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 bottle of rum extract
- 400g flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- about 1/4 cup flax seeds (grind them in a coffee grinder)
- about 1 cup of melted dark chocolate (I used Ghirardelli 60% cocoa chocolate chips )
- approximately 1 cup of mini chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 340 degrees.

Mix the flour, flax seeds and baking powder.
In a separate bowl beat butter, eggs and sugar until nice and smooth.

Slowly add milk and flour-mix as well as vanilla and rum extract. Now add in the melted chocolate as well as the chocolate chips if you use them.

Fill the batter into a well greased loaf pan or gugelhupf pan (or use the silicone version like I did... the cake comes out so easy!!!)

Bake for approximately 60 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out mostly clean.

Let it cool. You can eat as is or you can glaze or drizzle it with chocolate or sift some powdered sugar on it. I decided to grate some white chocolate on top for decoration.

Enjoy, healthyfied and good!

Chicken Piccata

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Chicken Piccata is such a simple, yet flavorful dish.

The most important component in here is definitely the lemon so if you are not a fan, then this dish is likely not for you.

I really did not follow any recipe here, I just threw the ingredients together and created my own. So this may or may not be a recipe that exists already.

This recipe serves 4 people that have a good appetite or 5-6 people that eat like birds:

- 4 pieces of chicken breast

- 2 lemons (wash them well)

- about 2 Tablespoon of capers (adjust to taste)

- flour to dust the chicken with

- seasonings to taste. I use: lemon pepper, garlic, salt,

- about 2 tablespoons of butter

- about 1 cup of white wine

- chicken broth as needed


Season the chicken and then pound it to about 1 inch thickness. Cut the pieces in half so they are not too huge. Coat each chicken cutlet with flour on both sides.

(Start a pot with pasta of your choice, I used whole wheat spaghetti .. cook according to package instructions)

Melt about 1 teaspoon of butter in a frying pan and add the chicken. Cook on both sides until just cooked, be careful not to overcook. Take the chicken out and set aside.

Add the rest of the butter to the pan and scrape the pan as the butter melts so the scrapings from the chicken mix into the butter. Add the white wine and capers. Let it all cook for a couple of minutes. Now squeeze in the juice of 1 1/2 lemons ... slice the other half lemon and set aside.

Add some chicken broth to create more sauce and flavor. Season to taste. Let the sauce simmer for a couple of minutes.

Put the chicken back in, together with the reserved lemon slice and reheat from both sides for about a minute.

Arrange two cutlets on each plate with a slice of lemon on top.


Put the pasta into the pan and mix well with the sauce. Arrange in plate


That's it .... simple, yet so good!