Saturday, January 26, 2013

Lower Calorie, Yet Delicious, Cakes

Some ways to get lower calorie yet very delicious cakes:
1. Replace oil with apple sauce.

2. Use diet-soda instead of eggs and oil while making a box cake:
http://www.skinnytaste.com/2008/12/diet-soda-cake-35-pts.html

(source: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ Stuart Miles)

Example:

Here is a lemon-poppyseed cake I love, but I replaced the oil with apple sauce and eggs with mostly egg whites:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lemon-poppy-seed-bundt-cake/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=poppyseed&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e13=A%3aSearch%20Results-List%28control%29&e7=Recipe%20Search%20Results

PointsPlus Calculation:
1 box cake (lemon flavour) = 55 PointsPlus
1 instant pudding mix (vanilla flavour) = 11 PointsPlus
1 egg = 2 PointsPlus
4 egg whites = 1 PointsPlus
1/2 cup apple sauce = 1 Points Plus
TOTAL = 70 Points Plus

Total weight of cake made = 892g
Each slice (1/6th of cake) or 1 Cupcake = 72g

Points per slice or per cupcake = 6 PointsPlus

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