How many calories are in a chocolate rice cake?
One chocolate rice cake weighs 17 g and carries 80 calories, which works out to 471 calories per 100 g. That density sits in cookie territory, but the piece is thin and light, so the number on your log stays small. The trap is the second and third cake, not the first.
You'd need to walk about 16 minutes to burn the 80 calories in one cake (17 g).
How long does it take to burn off 80 kcal of chocolate rice cake?
One cake (17 g) is 80 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
lb
| Activity | Time to burn 80 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 16 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 10 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 11 min |
| Jogging | 9 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 18 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (17 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Chocolate rice cake quick facts
- US servings, from one cake to a full ounce
- Milk, dark, brittle-topped and plain
- Fat is what the chocolate adds
- How does a chocolate rice cake compare?
- Most popular chocolate rice cake brands
- Chocolate rice cake FAQs
Chocolate rice cake quick facts
USDA has no generic, unbranded entry for a chocolate-coated rice cake. It has a plain one, and it has package labels. Since the thing in your hand is coated, the number that matters is a label, and the one used here is Element, Rice Cake, Milk Chocolate, fdc_id 2011418 — one of the most widely stocked chocolate rice cakes in US grocery.
It is not an outlier, either. Brad's Organic dark chocolate cakes land at 479 calories per 100 g and the same 80 calories a cake, so 471 and 80 read as the category consensus rather than one brand's arithmetic.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 cake (17 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 471 | 80 | — |
| Total fat | 20.59 g | 3.5 g | 4% |
| Carbohydrate | 64.71 g | 11.0 g | 4% |
| Protein | 5.88 g | 1.0 g | 2% |
| Sodium | 59 mg | 10 mg | 0% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Four rows you would expect are missing: saturated fat, dietary fiber, total sugars and added sugars. The USDA Branded record for this GTIN carries only calories, fat, carbohydrate, protein and sodium, so those lines are left out rather than guessed at. Cholesterol and potassium are absent from the same record for the same reason. If you want a fiber figure for the base, the plain rice cake record, fdc_id 168107, lists 4.2 g per 100 g and 0.88 g of sugars — but that is the naked cake, before anything is dipped in chocolate.
US servings, from one cake to a full ounce
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cake, labeled serving | 17 g | 80 kcal |
| 2 cakes | 34 g | 160 kcal |
| 3 cakes | 51 g | 240 kcal |
| 1 oz | 28.4 g | 134 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 471 kcal |
Only the first and last rows come straight from USDA. One cake at 17 g is the serving printed on the package; 100 g is the reference amount. The two-cake, three-cake and one-ounce rows are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings.
That ounce row is worth a second look, because recipe sites and older food logs often list snacks per ounce. An ounce of chocolate rice cake is 134 calories — more than one and a half cakes, not one. If you tapped "1 oz" while eating a single cake, you overcounted by 54 calories; if you ate two and logged an ounce, you undercounted by 26.
Counting by piece is the reliable move here, and it is easy: everything on the shelf is between 15 g and 17.5 g, which is 70 to 90 calories. Lieber's dark chocolate cakes are the lightest at 70 per 15 g slice, Element and Brad's Organic dark sit at 80, Brad's Organic milk at 83, and the brittle-topped version tops out at 90.
Milk, dark, brittle-topped and plain
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milk chocolate (Element, fdc_id 2011418) | 471 kcal | 1 cake (17 g) | 80 kcal |
| Dark chocolate (Element, fdc_id 2011419) | 471 kcal | 1 cake (17 g) | 80 kcal |
| Organic dark chocolate dipped (fdc_id 2584486) | 471 kcal | 1 cake (17 g) | 80 kcal |
| Brittle topped milk chocolate (fdc_id 2311056) | 514 kcal | 1 cake (17.5 g) | 90 kcal |
| Plain rice cake, no coating (fdc_id 168107) | 392 kcal | 1 cake (9 g) | 35 kcal |
| Caramel rice cake (fdc_id 2528128) | 385 kcal | 1 cake (13 g) | 50 kcal |
Dark versus milk is the question people ask most, and on calories the answer is boring: identical. Both Element records read 471 per 100 g and 80 per cake. What actually separates them is salt — the dark cake logs 118 mg of sodium per 100 g against 59 mg for the milk one, about 20 mg a cake versus 10 mg. Both are trivial against a 2,300 mg day, but the direction surprises people who assume dark is the plainer choice.
Sodium is the widest-swinging number in this whole category, in fact. Brad's Organic dark chocolate cakes list 6 mg per 100 g and Lieber's lists 0, while the brittle-topped cake reaches 200 mg per 100 g — 35 mg in one 17.5 g piece by our own scaling. If you are tracking sodium closely, read that panel; if you are not, none of these will move your day.
The brittle-topped cake is also the only one in the set above 500 calories per 100 g. A caramel-brittle layer sitting over the chocolate is enough to push it to 514, and at 17.5 g a piece it is 90 calories, ten more than the standard chocolate cake for a piece that looks the same size.
Plain cakes are the real reference point. At 9 g and 35 calories, a plain rice cake is less than half the chocolate one — and note that USDA carries two plain records, 392 and 386 calories per 100 g, which both round to the same 35 calories for a 9 g cake by our own arithmetic. The coating roughly doubles the weight of the piece and more than doubles the calories.
Fat is what the chocolate adds
Look at the fat row and the story writes itself. A plain rice cake carries 4.3 g of fat per 100 g. The chocolate one carries 20.59 g — nearly five times as much. Carbohydrate goes the other way, from 81.1 g down to 64.71 g per 100 g, because the chocolate is displacing puffed grain, not adding to it.
Per cake, none of that is alarming. One cake is 3.5 g of fat, 4% of the FDA Daily Value of 78 g, and 11.0 g of carbohydrate, another 4%. Protein is where these fall short: 1.0 g a cake, 2% of the 50 g Daily Value, so this is a snack that will not hold you. Pair it with something that has protein if you want the calories to buy you more than fifteen minutes.
Scale it to a realistic sitting and the picture shifts. Three cakes, by our own arithmetic from the 100 g figures, come to 240 calories, 10.5 g of fat (13% DV) and 33.0 g of carbohydrate (12% DV). That is a small meal's worth of calories from something that eats like air.
One more label detail worth knowing: because the USDA record here is a Branded panel and not a lab analysis, it reports what the manufacturer declares. The plain rice cake record is an analyzed food, which is why it carries fiber and sugars while the chocolate one does not. MyPlate counts the rice base as a refined grain either way — the chocolate does not change that classification, it just adds fat and calories on top.
How does a chocolate rice cake compare?
| Rice cake | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate rice cake, milk | 471 kcal | 1 cake (17 g) | 80 kcal |
| Plain brown rice cake | 386 kcal | 1 cake (9 g) | 35 kcal |
| Caramel rice cake, Quaker | 385 kcal | 1 cake (13 g) | 50 kcal |
| Strawberry 'n' cream rice cake | 471 kcal | 1 cake (17 g) | 80 kcal |
Our take: if the goal is the lowest-calorie crunch in the aisle, the plain brown rice cake wins outright at 35 calories, and nothing coated comes close. Caramel is the honest middle at 50 — thinner coating, thinner cake. And if you want the sweet one, take the chocolate over the yogurt-style strawberry, because they cost exactly the same 471 per 100 g and 80 per cake, so you may as well eat the flavor you actually wanted. What none of these deserve is the health-food halo: at 471 calories per 100 g, a coated rice cake is candy on a cracker, and the only thing keeping it cheap is that the cracker weighs 17 grams.
Most popular chocolate rice cake brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Lieber's Rice Cakes with Dark Chocolate | 467 cal |
| Brad's Organic Dark Chocolate Rice Cakes | 479 cal |
| Element Rice Cake, Milk Chocolate | 471 cal |
| Element Organic Dipped Rice Cakes, Dark Chocolate | 471 cal |
| Brad's Organic Milk Chocolate Rice Cake | 497 cal |
| Lieber's Brittle Topped Milk Chocolate Rice Cakes | 514 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Chocolate rice cake FAQs
How many calories are in a chocolate rice cake?
One chocolate rice cake is 80 calories, based on the 17 g cake in the USDA Branded record for Element milk chocolate rice cakes, at 471 calories per 100 g. Brands run from 70 to 90 calories a cake, because the piece weighs anywhere from 15 to 17.5 grams and the coating varies.
How many calories in a dark chocolate rice cake?
A dark chocolate rice cake is also 80 calories per 17 g cake, the same 471 per 100 g as the milk version in USDA's Element records. The one thing that moves is sodium: 118 mg per 100 g in the dark cake against 59 mg in the milk one, or about 20 mg a cake.
Chocolate rice cake vs plain rice cake calories?
A plain rice cake is 35 calories and a chocolate one is 80, so the coated version is more than double. Per 100 g the gap is smaller than it looks, 392 against 471. The size of the piece is doing most of the work: a plain cake weighs 9 g, a coated one 17 g.
How many carbs are in a chocolate rice cake?
One cake carries 11.0 g of carbohydrate, 4% of the Daily Value, scaled from 64.71 g per 100 g. Two cakes put you at 22 g. A plain rice cake is actually denser in carbs per 100 g, at 81.1 g, because there is no chocolate displacing the puffed grain.
How much fat is in a chocolate rice cake?
One cake has 3.5 g of fat, 4% of the Daily Value, from 20.59 g per 100 g. That is where the chocolate shows up on the panel. A plain rice cake carries 4.3 g of fat per 100 g, so the coating multiplies the fat content of the base by nearly five.
How many chocolate rice cakes is one serving?
One cake, 17 g, is the labeled serving on the Element package, and it is 80 calories. Most brands print something between 15 and 17.5 g. Two cakes are 34 g and 160 calories, which is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure rather than a USDA serving.
Are chocolate rice cakes a healthy snack?
At 80 calories a cake, with 1.0 g of protein and 3.5 g of fat, a chocolate rice cake is a small sweet snack rather than a source of nutrition. The USDA Branded record does not list fiber or sugars for it at all, and MyPlate counts the rice base as a refined grain.
Are chocolate rice cakes good for weight loss?
At 80 calories, one chocolate rice cake fits almost any snack budget, and it costs 45 calories more than a plain one. The catch is that they are thin and easy to eat in threes, which is 240 calories, the same as nearly seven plain rice cakes. Count them by piece.
Similar foods
- Chocolate Chip Cookie — 148 cal per medium cookie
- Steak — 368 cal per regular steak
- Eggnog — 112 cal for 1/2 cup
- Protein Shake — 156 cal per cup
- Bubble Tea — 239 cal per drink
- Apple cider — 114 cal per cup
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