Thursday, February 10, 2011

Weekly Recipe: Cake Mix + Greek Yogurt

This cake recipe came up in Wednesday's meeting, and we realized that none of us had taken a look to see how its value had changed under the new PointsPlus program. Here it is:

Cake Mix + Fat-Free Greek Yogurt
PER SERVING (1 piece, 1/12th of cake): 180 calories, 3.25g fat, 306mg sodium, 34.5g carbs, <0.5g fiber, 20g sugars, 3.5g protein

Ingredients:
One 18.25-oz. box moist-style cake mix
1 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt (like Fage Total 0%)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine ingredients in a large bowl and add 1 cup water. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. (Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.)

MAKES 12 SERVINGS


When I made this recipe I used a lemon cake mix. It was moist and fantastic!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I only have a 15.25 oz cake mix, can I use that?

Outsmart the Fat! said...

I doubt it would be a problem. Give it a try!