I have and I miss my ball of fluff. He became an old man and he crossed the rainbow bridge last year. I figure I'll have a dog again someday. Just not now.
As far as the cake is concerned... this is what I do. I lighten up the cake and make it as 'clean' as possible. I will use natural sweeteners or I will cut the sugar with Splenda. Sometimes I use egg beaters in place of whole eggs. If the cake calls for 4 eggs you can use 2 full eggs and 2 egg whites. I always choose a healthy oil in place of butter.
Using this chart:
http://catarzyna.livejournal.com/482385.html
It is challenging to lighten up icing but it can be done by using light butter (LAND O LAKES® Light Butter with Canola Oil) or 1/3 fat cream cheese. Or you could opt to do a cake without icing and just dust it lightly with confectioners sugar.
Here is an example of how I lightened up brownies:
http://catarzyna.livejournal.com/#catarzyna619121
This is a good magazine: http://www.diabeticcooking.com/
Another option is angel food cake with fresh strawberries and light whipped cream.
This looks like a wonderful recipe too with fat free yogurt to give the cake moisture.
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Date: 2009-03-12 04:12 pm (UTC)As far as the cake is concerned... this is what I do. I lighten up the cake and make it as 'clean' as possible. I will use natural sweeteners or I will cut the sugar with Splenda. Sometimes I use egg beaters in place of whole eggs. If the cake calls for 4 eggs you can use 2 full eggs and 2 egg whites. I always choose a healthy oil in place of butter.
Using this chart:
http://catarzyna.livejournal.com/482385.html
It is challenging to lighten up icing but it can be done by using light butter (LAND O LAKES® Light Butter with Canola Oil) or 1/3 fat cream cheese. Or you could opt to do a cake without icing and just dust it lightly with confectioners sugar.
Here is an example of how I lightened up brownies:
http://catarzyna.livejournal.com/#catarzyna619121
This is a good magazine:
http://www.diabeticcooking.com/
Another option is angel food cake with fresh strawberries and light whipped cream.
This looks like a wonderful recipe too with fat free yogurt to give the cake moisture.
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=549841
Cooking light is another great site to search for a cake. http://www.cookinglight.com/
I hope you followed all that. :-)
Ask me questions if you need me to clarify.