Friday, June 30, 2006

A Not-So Guilty Pleasure


This post is for anyone who has a chocolate-loving sweet tooth while also trying to maintain the waistline... ME! I posted earlier this summer about a new website that I found that provides nutritional values to menu items at various restaurants; now I'd like to share some new, extremely simple cake recipes that I got from my mom and aunt that make eating chocolate cake guiltless!

1.) Cola Cake
Ingredients:
1 box chocolate cake mix
1 can diet soda

Directions:
Mix cake mix and diet soda for two minutes.
Pour mixture into greased bundt pan.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

2.) Choco-pumpkin cake
Ingredients:
1 box of chocolate cake mix (During the holidays, substitute chocolate cake mix for spiced cake mix.)
1 can of pumpkin
1/2 cup of water

Directions:
Mix ingredients for 2 minutes
Pour mixture into greased bundt pan.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

*Note: These recipes are lower in calories and fat because you are omitting the eggs and oil. Nutritional values will vary depending on the cake mix of your choice.

Instead of icing or ice cream, I have been serving it with lite coolwhip.

I have made them both, and they are ooey-gooey and moist, delicious, satisfying-my-sweet-tooth desserts! Enjoy!


4 comments:

Ashley @ pure and lovely said...

mmmmmm your cake was swell the other day! yay! I cannot wait to try it...

Anna said...

I love new recipes! I will definitely be trying these. Thanks!

Heather said...

That recipe sounds great! I love anything chocolate and my waistline could use anything a little less guilty.

Cristin Claire said...

Thats awesome!!! I actually wrote and entire post on chocolate... you should read it even though it is extremely long!!! Man, i'm pumped about trying these out! Thanks for the tips!!!