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Chocolate Oat Cake - Healthier Version

Picture by Taste of Home. My cake looks very similar other than mine is a bit fluffier :) I LOVE chocolate oat cakes. The main reason (even before I was a health nut) is because they were not sickly sweet. I had a recipe here at home that I wanted to convert using all natural sweeteners. It still takes unbleached flour instead of whole wheat but other than that, it's a lot more healthy than most cakes. Keep in mind, this is not meant to be really sweet. It does however satisfy my sweet tooth. This was my first time converting a cake recipe over to partial honey as an ingredient. I'm very excited with the texture and flavor. Yeah! A huge thanks to my sil, Beka for always encouraging me to keep trying :) Ingredients: 1 cup old fashioned oats 1 1/2 cups boiling water 2/3 cup rapadura, sucunat or demera (I used rapadure aka whole cane sugar) 1/2 cup softened butter 2 large eggs 3/4 cup honey 1 3/4 cups unbleached flour 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 heaping ta...