Need birthday 'cake' ideas!!!

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.

Just want to point out two things that bother me personally.
1) Someone claiming angel food cake has less calories. I am guessing that is because it's serving size is less because it's mostly air? Or is it really less cals per gram?
2) Fat free icing... with 1 cup of corn syrup!??! That's like, this cigarette is nicotine free, instead of tobacco I used crack.

Just want to point out two things that bother me personally.
1) Someone claiming angel food cake has less calories. I am guessing that is because it's serving size is less because it's mostly air? Or is it really less cals per gram?
2) Fat free icing... with 1 cup of corn syrup!??! That's like, this cigarette is nicotine free, instead of tobacco I used crack.

It bothers me too.
I think peeps are mentioning angel food cake because it's fat free. It is LOADED with sugar. 1 3/4 cups of sugar in a basic recipe.

And 1 cup of corn syrup is STILL one cup of sugar. Heavily processed, SUGAR. It's just a meringue folks. You can make it with any kind of sugar.

I don't understand this obsession with fat free? I just don't.

Just want to point out two things that bother me personally.
1) Someone claiming angel food cake has less calories. I am guessing that is because it's serving size is less because it's mostly air? Or is it really less cals per gram?
2) Fat free icing... with 1 cup of corn syrup!??! That's like, this cigarette is nicotine free, instead of tobacco I used crack.

It bothers me too.
I think peeps are mentioning angel food cake because it's fat free. It is LOADED with sugar. 1 3/4 cups of sugar in a basic recipe.

And 1 cup of corn syrup is STILL one cup of sugar. Heavily processed, SUGAR. It's just a meringue folks. You can make it with any kind of sugar.

I don't understand this obsession with fat free? I just don't.

A few years ago there was a diet book out. Maybe it was the "T-Facto,r" I don't know. It pointed out the high caloric nature of equivalent amounts of fat vs Carbos.
For a few years, everybody was talking about "fatgrams" like they were little demons or something.
As a result, dieters were porking out on pretzels, candies (red rope licorice and jelly bans, IIRC) and claiming to be losing lots of weight. This might sound familiar to some of you.

That's to answer your question about why people make such a big deal about fat.

As for cake, make your favorite cake, enjoy a small slice, log it, and give the rest to the cat.

Me, I hate cake. But I will take a slice of blueberry pie.

If you're open to things other than cake, I LOVE this recipe and it's absolutely DELICIOUS. You can use fat free cool whip, low fat philedelphia (i don't reccommend fat free) and sugar free jello to reduce cals as well.
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/strawberry-pretzel-squares-53033.aspx

If you're open to things other than cake, I LOVE this recipe and it's absolutely DELICIOUS. You can use fat free cool whip, low fat philedelphia (i don't reccommend fat free) and sugar free jello to reduce cals as well.
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/strawberry-pretzel-squares-53033.aspx

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I would suggest a small cupcake in your favorite cake and icing flavor....

Corn syrup is high carb but regular icings are half fat and half sugar. This recipe eliminates the fat, 90% of which is converted to bodyfat if it's surplus calories. It takes roughly 40% of the calories in corn syrup to convert them to fat.

So...do you want to eat regular icing and convert 90% of the fat AND 60% of the sugar which would be 150 calories ? Or just 60% of the sugar (60 calories)? Me? I'd take the fat-free icing.

It's her birthday and she wants to celebrate so she's trying to find the best way to make it fun without blowing her calorie count which I think is admirable. She's not going to eat the whole cake. If she cuts it into 8 slices, that's about 115 calories from the whipped corn syrup, or 25 fewer calories than a can of coke.

Just want to point out two things that bother me personally.
1) Someone claiming angel food cake has less calories. I am guessing that is because it's serving size is less because it's mostly air? Or is it really less cals per gram?
2) Fat free icing... with 1 cup of corn syrup!??! That's like, this cigarette is nicotine free, instead of tobacco I used crack.

Angel Food cake = 129 calories, .1 gm fat and 15 grams of sugar. Devil's food cake = 180 calories, 3.5 grams of fat and 20 grams of sugar. The devils food cake figures are WITHOUT icing, btw. Both are 1/12 cake slices.

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.

This yum yum. We have had spice cake with Sprite Zero, carrot cake with Sprite Zero and chocolate with Coke Zero. We use sugar free fat free instant powders pudding mixed with the cool whip to add a second flavor.