ClareA

I'm on a diet at the moment, and I'm doing fine eating healthily and avoiding all those fatty and calorific foods and my weight is dropping steadily. I just wondered if any of you have any good recipes for cup cakes or any type of cake that won't be too damaging for my diet!

xjodeex

Ingredients
2 large eggs, cracked open
125g/4oz caster sugar (healthy option would be sweetener) (will save you hundred or so calories)
125g/4oz soft margarine (get the i cant believe it's not butter light or any LIGHT butter/marg)
125g/4oz self-raising flour


Method
1. Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat them together until the mixture is smooth and slightly lighter in colour.
2. Line a bun tin or cupcake tin with paper cake cases and half-fill each case with the cake mixture.
3. Cook the cakes for 18-20 minutes. You can tell they are done when they have risen up, are golden in colour, and spring back into shape when lightly pressed.
4. The cupcakes can be decorated using a basic icing, plus marshmallows, writing icing, food colouring and coloured sweets. You can even make a cupcake farm with animals such as sheep, piglets and dogs.

louisesept1970

Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes
Makes 12 cupcakes.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar or sugar substitute
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup fat-free plain yogurt
1/2 cup skim milk
1 egg
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix dry and wet ingredients separately, then stir just until combined. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake papers or spray with nonstick zero-calorie spray, fill each cup 2/3 full with batter. Bake 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.



Low-Fat Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
3/4 cup fat-free vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup fat-free small curd cottage cheese
16 oz Neufchatel or low-fat cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
Place yogurt and cottage cheese together in food processor and process until smooth. Cube cream cheese and add to processor, processing again until smooth. Add sugar in three parts, processing to mix between additions

DaniaC

You can mix any regular cake mix with 1 12oz can of diet soda and get great results. It cuts TONS of calories. Any diet sodas work, but you can match flavors (ie lemon cake with diet sprite, chocolate with diet coke or diet root beer etc).

Top with light cool whip.

ChristenC

You might want to check out this free ebook with award winning recipes.