I will admit that I love cake. I even love to make cake. My family also loves eating the cake I make. However, my cakes are homemade, from scratch, full of fat cakes. Not exactly the kind of dessert you can have every night. So I have some tricks up my sleeve to make great cake without all the fat and calories. Best of all, these cakes are much easier and less expensive to make. Saves time, money and fat?! Tastes good already. The trick is to start with a cake mix and add in a few simple ingredients.
Cake and Add-ins
Yellow cake mix and a cup of applesauce. The cake is very moist and the texture is fluffy. We have long heard that applesauce can replace oil in recipes to take out the fat and retain the moist texture.
Weight Watchers gives us a fantastic idea that is only five Weight Watchers points. Cake mix with diet soda. This one allows you to get really creative. Try chocolate with diet cherry coke or yellow with diet cream soda or banana with diet orange.
Every Thanksgiving, I make a low fat cake to give some reprieve from the heavy high fat foods. I simply mix a spice or carrot cake with a 15 ounce canned pumpkin. I have been known to do chocolate and pumpkin and even yellow and pumpkin. It is always a hit and no one knows it is low fat. This cake is dense and may require a longer cooking time.
I was recently told of another recipe but I have yet to try it. Mix a cake mix with a cup of plain Greek yogurt and a cup of water. I was not advised to change the yogurt flavor but pick whatever cake mix desirable. Try it out and let me know what you think.
All cakes are baked per package directions but only add the ingredients listed. If you feel a mix is too thick then add an egg white.