Birthday coming up... cake?

My Birthday is Saturday and I had the same question. My answer originally: angel food cake, but I'm gonna go further and have banana cake cupcakes instead. No matter your decision, just ENJOY IT !!! And Happy Birthday!

I'm afraid I am a believer in delish high calorie cake... and I know you said that you didn't want to "make" a cake, but if all else fails:

If you make this and cut into 20 pieces, 345 calories per piece. (Although that is without icing) It would be nice with yoghurt.

Ingredients
• 420g (2 cups) castor sugar
• 315ml (1¼ cups) salad oil
• 10ml (2 tsp) pure vanilla essence
• 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
• 3 eggs (lightly beaten)
• 270g (2 cups) carrots (peeled and grated)
• 195g (1 cup) apple (peeled and grated)
• 50g (1 cup) unsweetened crushed pineapple (drained)
• 65mls (¼ cup) pineapple juice (juice from crushed pineapple)
• 40g (½ cup) desiccated coconut
• 420g (3 cups) flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
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Method

•Preheat oven to 170°C. Spray a 25cm ring tin with a depth of at least 7.5cm.

•In a large bowl with hand whisk, whisk together sugar, oil, vanilla and lemon rind. (Do not use an electric mixer because you will create too much air).

•Add eggs and mix well. Stir in carrot, apple, pineapple, pineapple juice and coconut.

•Sift dry ingredients, add to bowl and gently fold in.

•Pour batter into prepared tin and bake for approx. 1 hour or until a cake skewer inserted comes out clean, and the cake bounces back when you prod it.

•Allow cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then remove cake from a tin to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Cake pops! Easy to control yourself since there's a limited number... one for each person

CHEESECAKE!

I don't know what the question was, but the answer is always cheesecake.

Do it up, it's YOUR birthday. Honestly, it's ok to treat yourself. It's just other people's birthdays and other silly events that you should be more cautious about. If you go to every party and say, "I'll just have a little cake," it will eventually spiral out of control, but if once a year or so you indulge it is OK!

you only get one birthday a year. EAT TILL U CANT MOVE

This.

any cake mix + diet soda (I recommend chocolate with diet dr pepper)
or
any cake mix + canned pure pumpkin.

still has the sugar and carbs, but a lot lower in fat and calories

Yeah, *reward* yourself with all the cake you can eat (even if it's one day each year)...


...because treating food as a reward has served so many so well.


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My Birthday is Saturday and I had the same question. My answer originally: angel food cake, but I'm gonna go further and have banana cake cupcakes instead. No matter your decision, just ENJOY IT !!! And Happy Birthday!

My birthday is also Sat. I am waiting to see what happens in regards to the cake. My mother or my daughter have made a cake for me the last few years but they both know I am trying to lose weight. My daughter gave me my present today so I know she is thinking about it. If I don't have a cake that will be fine. If I do have a cake, I plan on eating a healthy sized serving and limiting it to that one slice - no seconds over the next couple of days - but REALLY enjoying that slice!

Happy Birthday!

Nevermind. Turns out I didn't read the post either. I fail.

BUT she did give a good tip on replacing oil in a cake mix with greek yogurt. & she gave some hungry girl link, where the girl tested replacements for oil and that was the best one.

When I do cake for my birthday, I have actual cake, but I use whole wheat stone ground flour, I replace the oil with apple sauce, and the sugar in the recipe with either honey or stevia. I cuts a lot of calories and fat, yet still tastes fantastic. I might recomment making cupcakes to keep portions in control. Also, to cut back on frosting I'll melt it down and drizzle designs on the cupcakes instead of slopping on lots of frosting.

Edit: I think if you want to buy a cake low in calories, you won't find one. If you don't want anyone, or you to have to make it...you might as well just enjoy whatever you buy at the store.

Find the very best cupcake shop in town. Buy yourself two and eat them both. Enjoy your birthday!

If you were to eat an entire cake every year on your birthday, it wouldn't affect your weight. (provided you ate sensibly the rest of the time)

enjoy your day

I recently saw that DQ has Blizzard Cupcakes. I coudn't look up the nutritional value and for sure they aren't going to be low cal, low fat or low sugar... BUT they are portion controlled. I thought it seemed like a good idea... hope you have a great birthday!