Need birthday 'cake' ideas!!!

these are all great ideas! I made my husband a pumpkin apple cake (using applesauce instead of any oils and as a sweetener). the frosting was still pretty high in calories though even though i used a reduced fat cream cheese with powdered sugar.

Answer this. Would you rather have:

1) Low cal cake with lots of chemicals and preservatives and other $%^& messing with your body, OR
2) A natural cake with ingredients your body was made to digest and don't cause cancer or diabetes?

If 1, go ahead and eat man-made artificial sweeteners etc
If 2, I would suggest a paleo cake.

Examples:
Paleo German Choc Cake. Ingredients: eggs, maple syrup, butter, vanilla extract, coconut flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, dark chocolate, pecans, heavy whipping cream, coconut flakes.
Dark Choc Coconut Cake: eggs, honey, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla extract, coconut oil, coconut flour, baking soda

Health is more than your weight or calories. It's your immune and inner health as well. Just my two pennies

Definitely option 2. I like the Dark chocolate coconut cake idea... mainly because of the honey and coconut.

Do you have a link or baking instructions on that?

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How about a Diet Coke cake? Buy a box of the reduced sugar Pillsbury cake mix and add a 12oz can of diet coke. Nothing else. Mix and bake according to the box directions. It's yummy.

You can also try different flavor variations, i.e., white cake mix with diet orange or raspberry. If you want frosting, you can use lite cool whip if you like that.

Just an idea. Good luck.

I love these cakes! Generally, I make them into cupcakes but it definitely tastes good and fills the sweet tooth craving. Also, the first time that I had this, I didn't even know that it was a diet cake. Definitely use some lite (I use FF cool whip!)

Angel food cake with 1/3 less fat cream cheese mixed with strawberries would work. Or just leave out the cream cheese! Yum!

I never really liked birthday cake as a kid (yeah I was weird!) so my dad would always get me a watermelon, drill holes in the top of it and put candles in! He was a pilot so he'd 'buzz' my house with his plane then drive over later with my 'watermelon cake'.

Try Strawberries in a Cloud. For the cake, make (or buy) an angelfood cake, turn it out of the pan right-side-up and let it cool COMPLETELY. Carefully cut the top 2 inches off the cake, making two intact rings (top and bottom. It helps if you gently slide a plate under the top as you cut it). Hollow out the center of the opened cake with a spoon, leaving an inch wall all around.

Make fat free frosting:

2 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. fresh lemon juice
1 c. white corn syrup

Combine egg whites and syrup and beat mixture slowly until blended. On high speed, mix until peaks form. Add flavorings. Reserve 1/4 c. frosting in a bowl..

Slice 2-2-1/2 cups of fresh strawberries (sweetened with Truvia or something similar if you want). Save a few big berries. Stir the rest of the strawberries into the frosting and fill the cavity of the cake with the frosting mixture. Put the lid back on. Dot the top with dollops of frosting and top with reserved whole berries. Yummy! VERY low cal. You can add bananas if you like them.

Use any berries or soft fruit (apples need to be diced finely and mixed with cinnamon) for a change. Serve drizzled with sugar free chocolate syrup if you want. Happy birthday!

I love angel food cake with any fruit. For something fun and different get sugar free sundae syrup, the caramel kind and cut up apples. Either warm the apples with cinnamon and a drizzle of the caramel or just eat them nice and chilled with cinnamon and add the caramel to it. You can also do berries of course and use the chocolate syrup instead of caramel.
Happy Birthday!!! (I dont wait for a birthday on this one, its too yummy):happy:

It's your birthday, so indulge a little bit! Don't have some lazy-made boxed cake mix that's full of preservatives or some low-cal/low-everything cake that's going to disappoint and taste like cardboard. Have a REAL slice of cake and enjoy the crap out of it!

This is exactly what I did. My best friend made me a perfect chocolate raspberry cake, and I got to decorate with homemade icing and sprinkles. I had a piece, loved it, and that was that. It was great!

This is probably -TOTALLY- not what you're looking for, but I make my mom Jello cake every year as she doesn't eat the real thing. (Not for any diet reason, but a kind of gross one, lol.)
Basically, you take a trifle dish & make layers of jello, then unmold it, frost it with cool whip & stick candles on top.

It's your birthday, so indulge a little bit! Don't have some lazy-made boxed cake mix that's full of preservatives or some low-cal/low-everything cake that's going to disappoint and taste like cardboard. Have a REAL slice of cake and enjoy the crap out of it!

This is exactly what I did. My best friend made me a perfect chocolate raspberry cake, and I got to decorate with homemade icing and sprinkles. I had a piece, loved it, and that was that. It was great!

This is full of so much happy.