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Hot Cakes
Hot Cakes

Hot cakes recipe folds beaten egg whites into a sour-milk batter with melted lard for old-fashioned pancakes that puff tall and tender. Eight pantry ingredients.

Creamsicle Cake
Creamsicle Cake

If you can't find orange cake mix, use white or golden---just use orange juice in place of the water when preparing the mix, and add 1 tsp. of orange extract/flavoring. To the topping I also add 3/4 tsp. each of vanilla and orange extract. Garnish, if desired, with Mandarin orange segments.

Smores Cake
Smores Cake

Smores cake layers fluffy graham cracker sponge with toasted miniature marshmallows and mini chocolate chips broiled until bubbly. Low-fat campfire-flavored cake without leaving the kitchen.

Angel Food Cake
Angel Food Cake

Egg whites beaten to stiff peaks with sugar and cream of tartar bake into this impossibly light angel food cake where almond extract adds subtle nutty fragrance to the cloud-like crumb.

Strawberry Meringue Cake
Strawberry Meringue Cake

Light and packed with strawberry flavor. Make this delicious cake with seasonal strawberries, if you can find organic ones, the cake would taste more strawberry-y. Only 1/2 cup flour in the cake, and almost fat-free and guilt-free. Enjoy :)

Homemade Steamed  Cake
Homemade Steamed Cake

Soft, springy steamed cake made without an oven, a brown sugar and honey batter poured into cups and steamed into fluffy little sponges. A simple no-bake-style treat from Sri Lanka.

Homemade Funnel Cake
Homemade Funnel Cake

Homemade funnel cake just like the fair: a simple batter piped into hot oil in lacy swirls and fried until golden and crisp. Drizzle with chocolate or dust with sugar for a carnival treat at home.

Grannys' Fruit Cake
Grannys' Fruit Cake

Granny's boiled fruit cake: an old-fashioned eggless, butterless loaf made by simmering raisins with sugar and shortening, then folding into spiced flour. Plump, moist and Christmas-ready.

Moist Gingerbread Cake
Moist Gingerbread Cake

Moist gingerbread cake sweetened with molasses and applesauce, no butter or oil added. Whole wheat and white flour blend with buttermilk for tender low-fat texture and warm spice.

Zucchini Corn Cakes
Zucchini Corn Cakes

This scrumptious appetizer is made with cornmeal, buttermilk and zucchini.

Coconut-Chocolate Poke Cake
Coconut-Chocolate Poke Cake

Devil's food cake imbibed with cream of coconut and sweetened condensed milk, it is reminiscent of a tres leches cake. Topped with whipped cream and a sprinkling of toasted coconut, it's an easy to do treat.

Applesauce Carrot Cake
Applesauce Carrot Cake

This super moist carrot cake was absolutely delicious and much much lower-fat than a regular carrot cake, thanks to applesauce and yogurt instead of butter and cream cheese. I used whole wheat pastry flour to make it even more nutrition dense. I will be making this low-fat carrot cake again for sure.

Applesauce Breakfast Cake
Applesauce Breakfast Cake

Make this delicious applesauce cake for breakfast, everyone will enjoy and love it.

Flip Flops Cake
Flip Flops Cake

"A fun, easy to make pair of flip flop cakes for many occasions...the beach, picnics, cookouts, etc. Everyone will love them, especially the kids."

A1 Angel Food Cake
A1 Angel Food Cake

Fluffy light yet firm baked to a perfect soft golden crust.

Skinny Raspberry Lemonade Cake
Skinny Raspberry Lemonade Cake

This cakes uses low fat yogurt so you don’t have to use any oil or eggs, only egg whites, which cuts down on fat and calories. A refreshing summer treat!

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