Chocolate Beet Cake

Many many moons ago, I came across this recipe over on Green Lite Bites and I have been meaning to make it for a while. She has a super awesome page; go check her out! Any who, life being life, and my kitchen being my kitchen, I didn't have all of the ingredients to make it exactly like she made hers, so here is my version. I wasn't completely sold on the cake flavor at first. It is definitely chocolatey but it has a bit of an earthy under tone, if that  makes any sense at all. I told Ed to try it and he liked it :) He said it was good, definitely not the worst thing he had ever eaten. Best of all, I got to make it in my super awesome paper pan!
*** recipe revision for a less earthy beet cake!***

Ingredients:

1 box mix Pillsbury Moist Supreme Dark Chocolate
1 8 oz can beets with juice **for less earthy beet cake, drain beets, but retain the beet juice, place the beet juice with the same amount of water** ie: can had 1/2 cu beet juice, use 1/2 cup water
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 large egg
1 tbs cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350. Spray your pan if you need to! I used my paper bundt pan which didn't need spraying :D In blender or food processor, blend apple sauce and beets until smooth. Mix all of the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl until well combined. If the batter seems to thick, add water 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached. Pour mix in to prepared pan and bake according to the boxes recommended time, depending on if you are making cupcakes, bundt cake, etc.

Cool, serve and enjoy!

Makes 12 Servings @ 5 PointsPlus each
Makes 14 Servings @ 4 PointsPlus each

Butter Pecan Pumpkin Cake

So, the big debate...How do YOU say it? It is Pee-can or Pee-con? For me it depends on the context. I know that makes absolutely no sense, but I figure I can put that off on being raised in the land of "might could, might should". For instance. If I want a pecan, I want a Pee-can. BUT if I want a slice of the Butter Pecan Pumpkin Cake, I REALLY want a slice of the Butter Pee-con Pumpkin Cake. Any who, enough of that! On with the recipe  =)

Ingredients:
1 Butter Pecan Box Cake Mix
2 eggs
3/4 cup Pumpkin Puree
1 1/4 cup water


Preheat oven to 350 and spray pan with pan spray. Mix all ingredients except the box mix in blender until smooth. Mix wet mix with dry mix until well combined. Pour in pan and bake as directed on box, testing occasionally until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool, serve and Enjoy!

TOTALLY YUMMY!
12 servings @ 5 Point+ each
15 servings @4 PPV each
18 servings @ 3 PPV each

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

I found an awesome fish shaped cake pan, so I had to make something in it!
This cake is AWESOME and super moist.

Ingredients:

1 box (18.25 oz) Pillsbury Moist Supreme Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon oil
2 eggs
1.5 cups grated zucchini (156 g)
1/2 teaspoon orange extract (or vanilla or almond would be good too!)
Sprinkle of cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350.
Mix all ingredients besides cake mix in blender and blend until smooth.
Mix wet mix to dry mix and stir until well combined. Pour into a cake pan that has been sprayed with pan spray. Bake for about 30-35 minutes.

12 servings @ 5 Point+ each
15 servings @4 PPV each
18 servings @ 3 PPV each( same all the way up to 24 servings?)
YUM!

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Strawberry Banana Brownie Bread Cake

We had some friends coming over for dinner the other night and wanted to try something new for them. I had been looking for recipes that use frozen bananas, but most of them mentioned thawing and ending up with a mystery liquid and brown bananas...not so tasty sounding, so I made this! This was pretty good! I made some PB2 Whipped topping ( 2 tablespoons PB2 and about 1 cup of cool whip free) to go on it and Hubby said he liked it much better with that on top. We ate some and I froze the rest!

Ingredients:

1 box pillsbury banana bread mix

1 box duncan hines snack size brownie mix

3/4 cup water, divided in to 4ths

13 oz strawberries, stems removed, diced and rinsed

180 g or 6.3 oz frozen bananas

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 365.

Combine boxes of dry ingredients and stir til mixes are interspersed ( I used a wisk)

Put the frozen banana with 1/4 cup water in food processor, puree til smoothish

then add another 1/4 cup water, puree til combined.

puree strawberries in food processor til smooth.

Mix all ingredients in to a large mixing bowl, including the final

1/4 cup water. Spread evenly in a 9x13  baking dish, that has

been sprayed with pan spray.

Bake for about 40 minutes or until cooked through. Enjoy!

The dry mixes

lovely fruit purees

the final product

18-20 servings yielded @ 4 Points+ each.

you could cut them smaller and get 22-24 @ 3 Points+ each

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Pineapple Cake with Strawberry Sauce

I love when I can "invent" something that basically combines two things I already have made/easily accessible.

Two Things:
Strawberry Soup
Pineapple Angel Food Cake Bread


Slice a serving of the Pineapple Cake Bread, Top with some of the soup. Serve up and Enjoy!

depending on the serving of your cake:

1/12 (of 2 loaves or 1/6 of one)= 4 Points+

1/24 (of two loaves or 1/12 of one)= 2 Points+

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Pineapple Angel Food Cake Bread

Easy Peasy!
Thank you TJ for reminding me of this recipe!

Ingredients:
1 box fat free angel food cake mix
1 20 oz can of crushed pineapple (or if you are like me and ACCIDENTLY used your can making something else!) grab a 20 oz can of slice pineapple, packed in its own juice, drain the juice and puree in blender or food processor until smooth.


Typically this is made in a bundt pan, but I don't have one so I used 2 x loaf pans.

Mix the Pineapple with the dry mix and follow directions on mix box for further preparation info.

1/12 (of 2 loaves or 1/6 of one)= 4 Points+

1/24 (of two loaves or 1/12 of one)= 2 Points+

I plan on freezing one of these loaves to have later!