Healthy(ish?) Birthday Cake??

When I was on Weight Watchers years ago we always had a standby cake recipe

1 box cake of your choice
1 can of diet soda - your choice

Many liked to do lemon cake with diet 7 up or a chocolate cake with diet dr pepper for that red velvet type. There are also recipes where you can substitute oils for applesauce or smashed bananas. I do this with great results.

I dont know if you are on Pinterest, but there are a ton of photos and low cal low fat style cake recipes there.

Do a cupcake cake and then the portion is controlled as well. Cupcakes are all the rage right now. I've seen them where they are shaped and frosted together to look like a cake but then everyone just graps one cupcake. www.skinnytaste.com has many cupcake recipies that are great and healthy. She uses applesauce and even pumpkin with cake mixes and I've made some of these for office events. They are wonderful. You could turn her cupcakes into a full cake as well and they would be yummy.

Here's the recipe you are referring to: http://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doctors-chef-chloes-healthier-chocolate-cake-recipe/

Chef Chloe’s Chocolate Cake Recipe

3 cups flour
⅔ cup Cocoa Powder
2 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
1 ½ c. water
1 ⅔ c. Agave
1 c. Canola Oil
¼ c. Vinegar
1 tbsp. Vanilla

1.Whisk the dry ingredients in a bowl.
2.Add the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.
3.Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
4.Enjoy your guilt-free chocolate cake.

This recipe has just 200 calories and 9 grams of fat per serving.

This sounds perfect! I'm keeping it for my birthday! Thanks for posting!

I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners or cakes where the fat has been replaced with applesauce. I like a real cake! I make a lot of simple unfrosted cakes that end up being less than 200 calories per slice. A couple days ago I cut the recipe for Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" cake in half, used walnut oil instead of vegetable oil, almond milk instead of milk, and added 1/2 cup each of mini chocolate chips and ground walnuts. When the cake was cool I gave it a thick coat of powdered sugar and cut it into 16 slices-- the cake is so chocolatey and rich that 1/16th of a 9" round cake is immensely satisfying. When I put the ingredients into MFP each slice came to only 181 calories.

okay - here were two - they are the only two cakes my kids ever want!

Crock pot - mix boxed choc cake mix, pkg sugar free chocolate pudding, 1 c applesauce, 1 c fat free sour cream, 1 c. egg beaters, 1 c water, 3/4 c chocolate chips. Stir and cook on low 6 hours or so....is like a fudgey molten lava cake. I use frozen light cool whip instead of ice cream, but light ice cream would work too!

Dreamsicle Cake (sugar free, diabetic approved) one boxed orange cake mix, made per directions (i use applesauce instead of oil and eggbeaters). Let cool in pan, poke full of holes with a fork. One pkg sugar free orange jello with 1/2 c hot water, 1/2 c cold water. Pour over cake, letting sink in. For frosting: one pkg sugar free vanilla pudding with 1 c cold skim milk. Whisk till thickened, fold in one tup of light cool whip. The cake is fabulous, we use it at all functions in the community to offer dessert to the diabetics.......except even the non-diabetics love it! lol

There's a recipe in better homes and garden cookbook, one bowl chocolate cake, it is easy to make and only makes an 8x8 square pan or 9 inch round pan. I made it into cupcakes and used the chocolate glaze. Ok, it is decadent, but it is limited in size, so you only have very limited servings. I think I made a dozen cupcakes and when they are gone, you go back to your diet. real ingredient = real food. :bigsmile:

Have you considered a raw cake? I know it sounds bananas, but it has the same consistency as cheescake, but is sooooo amazing. Here is the link http://www.sweetlyraw.com/2010/01/winter-dinner-party.html

Its a blueberry cake, but once you seen the recipe you can see how its easily adaptable to lots of different flavors. I did make the blueberry and it really was a vibrant as the pictures, and kept really well.

I've got several other recipes on my pinterest too http://pinterest.com/Rapunzel24/body-health/

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