Low fat angel food cake

It's the Fourth of July weekend. Time to eat, enjoy family and blow some stuff up.  But if you don't want to be blowing the button off your jeans, you're going to need to pace yourself or swap out some healthier choices for unhealthy comfort foods.  

Increasing lean meats, vegetables and fruits are a good start. Limit the quantity of the processed foods you eat. Generally speaking these holiday weekend meals are filled with carbs AND fat.  I usually try to pick one or the other.  So I baked this lovely flag themed LOW FAT cake to enjoy guilt free. 

It's not low carb, but it's really not a diet killer, even for a pretty generous portion (1/12 of a 13x9 cake) 2 ingredients doesn't get much easier either!

Let's get to the Ingredients:

For the cake:

Box of Angel Food Cake Mix

20 oz can of crushed pineapple in juice

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

Mix the pineapple (un-drained) with the cake mix until fully incorporated.

        Mixture will be very foamy and fluffy.

Pour the mixture in a 13x9 ungreased pan 

Bake for 30-40 minutes (mine was done at 30 minutes)

Cool completely.. scroll down for topping

IF you wanted to enjoy the cake as is, the macros for 1/12 of the cake are as follows:

Calories: 167

Fat: 0g (yes ZERO) 

Carbs: 37.5g

Fiber: 0.7g 

Protein: 3g

This would be a pretty awesome post workout recovery meal... 

If you want to go all out topping and decorating you'll need the following:

Small box of dream whip

Milk of choice (I used 1% good old cows milk) 

Extract of choice *Optional*

Fruit of choice (I used blue berries and strawberries)  

Keep scrolling for directions 

Mix the Dream whip per the box directions.  I used both envelopes and 1 cup of 1% milk. I used a cherry flavor I had to give it just a hint of sweetness. 

The box recommends vanilla extract.

Whip until peaks form

Spread on top of the cake (I left mine in the pan)

Decorate with fruit if desired and ENJOY! 

Macros for cake and topping (I left the fruit off, but I only ended up with about 1 strawberry on my piece so it wouldn't drastically change the macros.

1/12 of cake w/ topping

Calories: 196

Fat: 1g

Carbs: 43g

Fiber: 1g

Protein: 4g

This comes in at about 1/2 the calories of a traditional cake with buttercream and with SO much less fat.

Hope you have a safe 4th of July and remember, you don't have to ruin your goals to enjoy your life.