Low Fat Cinnamon Roll Cake!

My family loves cinnamon rolls.  I created this cake so that we can have our cinnamon roll taste without having to wait a couple of hours before we can eat a fresh from the oven cinnamon roll.  A bonus of this cake is that it is low fat!

Ingredients:

1 white cake mix

1 ¼ c. water

1/3 c. plain or vanilla low fat yogurt

3 egg whites

¼ c. brown sugar

2 T flour

1 t cinnamon

3 T butter or margarine

½ c powdered sugar

1 T skim milk

¼ t vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix, water, yogurt and egg whites.  Beat on high for 2 minutes. Spray a 9 x 13” pan with cooking spray.  Pour in cake.  Set aside.  In a small bowl combine brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and mix with a spoon.  Cut in butter till the mixture is course.  Sprinkle on top of your cake.  Bake for 25 to 30 minutes till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the cake.

As cake cools make the powdered sugar glaze.  Whisk together in a small bowl powder sugar, milk and vanilla till there are no lumps then using a spoon drizzle over the top of the cake.

My family loves to eat this cake warm right after the glaze has topped the cake.

Pinwheel fun!

I love pinwheels!  They always remind me of summer so this month’s pillow sham is patriotic pinwheels.

 

Instructions: 

Cut out eight 4” squares of the white background fabric and four 4” squares of the red polka dot and flag fabric.  This website is a great source on how to assembly the pinwheel blocks: 

 http://www.youcanmakethis.com/articles/post/how-to-make-3-d-pinwheels.htm

To have one pinwheel slightly above the other sew a 3 x 7 ½” strip of background fabric to the bottom of the red pinwheel block and another 3 x 7 ½” strip to the top of the flag pinwheel block. Trim and iron. Cut out two 3 x 10” strips of fabric from the background fabric.  Sew one to the left side of the pillow sham top and one to the right side of the pillow sham top.  Iron and trim to 9 x 18”.  Cut out two 4 x 18” strips from the brown fabric.  Sew one to the top of the sham and one to the bottom of the sham.  Iron and trim to 14 x 18”

To sew on the rick rack, lay it under one of the pinwheels and sew on at a diagonal using a straight stitch.

Sew on a fun button to go in the middle of your pinwheel.

Next, cut two rectangles measuring 14” x 11”.  Hem one side of each of the rectangles measuring so that they measure when hemmed 9 ¼”.  With right sides facing together lay the hemmed rectangles so that they slightly overlap in the middle on top of pinwheel square.  Pin and sew ¼” seam all the way around the edges.  

To make the ties cut two rectangles measuring 3" x 5".  Fold in half with right sides together and sew ¼ inch seam all around but leave one side open.  Turn fabric right side out and press.  Tuck in raw edges of open side and sew onto wrong side of opening on each of the hemmed squares fabric.  Turn sham right side out place a 12"x 16" inch pillow in your sham and tie back close.