Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Recipe Corner: Weight Watchers Pumpkin Spice Cake

Weight Watchers Pumpkin Spice Cake

Serves 20

Points Value: 5
Points Plus Value: 6

CAKE:
3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon pumpkin spice cake
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 (15oz) can pumpkin
4 large eggs
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup fat free milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

GLAZE:
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice


1. Preheat oven to 375. Spray a 10in Bundt pan with cooking spray. Lightly dust pan with flour shaking out excess.

2. To make cake, whisk together flour, sugar, pumpkin spice, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Whisk together pumpkin and eggs in a medium bowl until blended. Gradually whisk in oil, milk and vanilla until blended. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until flour mixture is moistened. Pour batter into prepared pan.

3. Bake until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. Let cake cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool on rack until warm, about 30 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, to make glaze, stir together powdered sugar and lemon juice in small bowl and drizzle over warm cake.