Low-fat Key Lime Lemon Cake!

I wanted a sweet treat without a lot of fat and calories.  After rummaging through my kitchen I found a lemon cake mix and key lime pie yogurt.  I decided to combine the two and a yummy super moist cake was born.  Better yet one slice of cake is only 37 calories!

Ingredients:

1 Lemon cake mix

1 cup of Key Lime Pie yogurt

3 egg whites

1 1/3 cups of water

¼ can of vanilla frosting

serving size:  16

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine all the ingredients and mix for three minutes. Pour into a greased and floured bunt pan.  Cook for 40 to 45 minutes until a knife in the cake comes up clean.  Let cake cool for 10 minutes.  

Turn out onto a rack and while cake is still warm frost the cake.  It will melt and as it cools will harden on the cake.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting!

Having a peanut butter chocolate craving?  These cupcakes hit the spot!

 

Peanut Butter Cupcakes:

1 chocolate cake mix

1 c milk

¼ c peanut butter

3 eggs

Bake according to directions on the back of the box.

Peanut Butter Frosting:

8 oz Cream Cheese

½ c Peanut Butter

2/3 c milk

2 c powder sugar

1 snickers bar cut up into pieces

Cream the cream cheese and peanut butter till smooth.  Add the milk and sugar alternately until frosting is thick and spreadable. 

Spread on top of cupcakes and top with snickers pieces.

Yummy!  Usually I just buy a toy and stick it on top of the cake for my kids birthdays. Ta da! A birthday cake with their favorite character.  This year my son wanted an Angry Bird cake.  I just could not shell out the bucks for a small cheap toy to stick on top of the cake.  I decided to try and make the cake myself.  If your a non decorator this is any easy cake to make.  

You'll need:
1 cake mix (make sure you have eggs and oil since most cake mixes call for these)

1 chocolate frosting can

1 vanilla frosting can

2 round pans

1 red cake mate decorating frosting and star tip

2 Oreo cookies

Instructions:

Make the cake as directed and pour into two greased and floured round pans.  Bake for 30 minutes until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.

Let the cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes so the cakes won't stick when you turn them over.

Turn cakes over onto a wire rack to cool. 

When the cake is cool place the one cake top side down on your cake plate. Use the chocolate frosting to frost the top of the cake. 

Place your other layer bottom side down on top of the first cake.  (If both flat ends face each other your cake won't slide and will be less lopsided.  

Use the chocolate frosting to frost the sides of the cake.

Take two Oreo's and separate the two pieces so the cream is on one side.  Use frosting an place on the cake.

Use the vanilla frosting and star tip to make a half circle shape at the bottom of the cake.  Fill the circle in using the star tip.  

With food coloring dye the rest of the vanilla frosting orange.  To make the beak use a star tip and make a triangle between the eyes and another triangle upside down from the first.  Fill in the triangles.

Use the red frosting cake mate with a star tip and decorate the top half of the cake with stars.  

With the chocolate frosting use a straight tip and outline the beak and the top feathers of the bird.  Also, dot the middle of the eyes and outline two eyebrows that cover the top part of the Oreo's.  Use a little water on a knife to smooth out the eyebrows.

Use the remaining orange frosting and add stars around the bottom of the cake.  

Have fun adding any detail to your cake!

star decorating tip