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Hungry Girl Today: 4.22.08
CHEW THE RIGHT THING
BITE IT!
HG's 14-Carat Cupcakes
Cake Superior!
Carrot cake rules. It's thick, sweet, delicious and slathered in cream cheese
frosting. Mmmmmm! But since the nutritional stats on the average carrot
cake are pretty horrendous, we decided to create our own guilt-free version.
We made ours as cupcakes, 'cuz cupcakes are cute, fun, and, best of all,
portion-controlled (it's too easy to cut yourself sliver after sliver with a full
cake). But if you want, you can easily whip up a classic cake with this recipe -
- just add 10 minutes to the cooking time. Here it is now...
Ingredients:
For cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups shredded carrots, roughly chopped if shreds are long
1 cup (1/4th of box) Pillsbury Moist Supreme Reduced Sugar Cake Mix,
Classic Yellow
3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
3/4 cup canned pure pumpkin
2/3 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters Original)
2/3 cup canned crushed pineapple in juice (not drained)
2/3 cup Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (granulated)
1/4 cup raisins (not packed)
2 tbsp. brown sugar (not packed)
1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking powder
For frosting:
4 oz. fat-free cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup Fage Total 0% Greek Yogurt (or another thick, plain fat-free yogurt)
1/2 cup Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (granulated)
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine all dry cupcake
ingredients except for the carrots and raisins (in other words -- cake mix,
flour, Splenda, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and baking
powder). Mix well and set aside. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin, egg
substitute, and 1/4 cup water until blended. Add the contents of the medium
bowl to the large bowl. Using a wire whisk or fork, blend until just mixed.
Then, stir in the carrots, pineapple, and raisins. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan
with nonstick spray. Evenly distribute cake mixture among the cups, and
place in the oven to cook for 20 - 25 minutes (until a toothpick poked into the
center of one comes out clean). While the cupcakes cook, combine all the
frosting ingredients in a small bowl. Using a whisk or fork, blend until
smooth. Place frosting in the fridge to chill. Once cupcakes are fully cooked,
remove the pan from the oven and allow to cool completely. Then plate
cupcakes, and spread frosting evenly over tops. Refrigerate until frosting has
set and you're ready to serve. Enjoy!!! MAKES 12 SERVINGS
Serving Size: 1 frosted cupcake
Calories: 130
Fat: 1g
Sodium: 205mg
Carbs: 26g
Fiber: 2.5g
Sugars: 10g
Protein: 5g
POINTS® value 2*
FIGHT IT!
Carrot Cake, Average
Carrot Flop!
Stupid carrot cake. Trying to fool everyone into thinking you're healthy by
naming yourself after a vegetable, and then stuffing yourself silly with zillions
of walnuts, brown sugar and raisins. But we're onto you. And we're outing
you right here and now. So, listen up peeps -- whether you get your carrot
cake from a bakery, a restaurant, the freezer aisle or your grandmother's
oven, a slice of the stuff with frosting contains an alarming average of 535
calories and a whopping THIRTY grams of fat. And that's just an average!
Ready for the real doozies? A slice of carrot cake at Denny's contains 799
calories and 45 fat grams (POINTS® value 19*). And a piece at The
Cheesecake Factory reportedly packs in an absurd 1,510 calories and 84g fat
(POINTS® value 36*)!!! How depressing. But wait! HG's come to the rescue
of carrot cake lovers across the globe. Check out our 14-Carat Cupcakes.
They're head-explodingly delicious!
Serving Size: 1 slice with frosting
Calories: 535
Fat: 30g
Sodium: 401mg
Carbs: 61g
Fiber: 2g
Sugars: 37g
Protein: 6g
POINTS® value 13*
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