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Orange-Pineapple Right-side-up Cake

13 May

Ingredients
– 1 box of orange cake mix
– 1 can of 20 oz crushed pineapple (in juice, not syrup)
– 5 egg whites
– 1 tub cool whip free* (optional)

Directions:

1. Mix cake, eggs, and pineapple together.
2. Pour into a prepared (sprayed with non-stick spray) glass 13×9 pan.
3. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.
4. If desired, cool cake completely, and top with cool whip.

Variations: The cool whip on this is totally optional. The cake is awesome without it. If you choose to do the cool whip, you could also top with fresh berries to make this extra pretty.

You can also sub: white cake mix, orange, yellow, lemon, or angel food cake.

12 Servings= 210 calories per slice (without cool whip)
12 Servings- 240 Calories (with cool whip)
15 servings= 167 Calories (no cool whip)
15 servings= 187 Calories (with cool whip)

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Mixed Berry Cobbler

10 May

So, there are two ways you can make this.  You can make it pretty healthy, and use a regular yellow cake mix, or, you can make it very low calorie by using a sugar free cake mix, which is my preference.  However, my husband thinks it tastes a little “diet-y”.  I disagree.  I think this cobbler is great, particularly for a “diet” dessert.  Try it out, and you be the judge!

Ingredients:

– 1 box of yellow cake mix (sugar free or regular)

– 1 can of diet soda (i used mello yello zero.  diet sprite, sierra mist, sprite zero would all work)

– 4-5 cups of frozen fruit of your choice (i used cherries and blueberries)

Directions:

1. Spread Fruit on bottomo of a 9X13 baking dish.

2. Pour cake mix evenly over top.

3. Pour soda over the top of cake mix.  DO NOT MIX.

4. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

Variations:  Spice cake and frozen apples or peaches.  White Cake instead of Yellow.

Serves: 12= 179 calories per serving*

*my calorie count was based on sugar free cake mix, and a mix of cherries and blueberries.

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Lemonade Pie

8 May

Ingredients:

– 1 block of fat free cream cheese

– 1 small box of fat free, sugar free vanilla pudding

– 1 cup of 1% milk

– 2 tsp crystal light lemonade mix

– 1 tub of cool whip free (divided into 2 halves)

– 1 reduced fat graham cracker crust

 Directions:

1. Mix cream cheese until soft. Add pudding, milk and lemonade.  Mix well.

2. Fold in 1/2 of cool whip.  Fill pie shell with this mixture. Top with remaining 1/2 of cool whip.

3. Refrigerate for at least 2 hrs before serving.

Also good frozen.  YUMMMMM…. enjoy 🙂

8 servings=    225 Calories per serving

Apple Torte

4 May

First, and foremost, I got this recipe at “Emily Bites” and it looks and smells awesome. (see pic below)

Ingredients

3 medium apples
1 t lemon juice
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
4 T granulated sugar, divided
1 t all-purpose flour (plus a little bit to flour the surface of your workspace when you work with the pastry dough)
½ t cinnamon
1/8 t nutmeg
1/8 t allspice

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside (I used a 10 x 15” baking sheet).

2. Slice the apples open and remove the core. Cut the apples into thin slices (about ¼” thick). Toss lightly with the lemon juice and set aside.

3. Lightly flour your workspace surface and unfold the thawed puff pastry sheet onto the floured space. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the pastry sheet out to be a 10” x 14” rectangle. Place the pastry rectangle onto the prepared baking sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes.

4. In a small dish, combine one tablespoon of the sugar with the teaspoon of flour and stir. In a separate small bowl, combine the remaining 3 tablespoons of sugar, the cinnamon, the nutmeg and the allspice. Mix until combined.

5. Leaving about 1/2” around the edges, sprinkle the flour mixture across the surface of the pastry rectangle. Line the apple slices onto the pastry in three long rows, overlapping the slices. Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar mixture evenly over the top of the apple slices.

6. Bake for about 35 minutes or until the edges are browned and the apple are cooked through and tender. Let the tart cool for a few minutes. Cut tart into 12 equal pieces (I used a pizza cutter to slice lengthwise between each row of apples to form three long sections and then I just cut each of those into four equal pieces) and serve.

12 servings= 122 calories per serving

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