Dannon Low-Fat Apple Spice Cake
"This is a great spice cake with no "guilty aftertaste"! It's good with the glaze listed or with a vanilla or lemon sauce like you make for gingerbread. It's moist enough to eat plain, too!"
photo by Shakthi
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 2 3⁄4 cups flour
- 2 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon allspice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon clove
- 1 3⁄4 cups applesauce
- 1 1⁄4 cups dannon plain nonfat yogurt
- 1 eggs or 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup raisins
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Quick Yogurt Glaze
- 1 1⁄2 cups dannon plain nonfat yogurt
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, salt and cloves.
- Add applesauce, yogurt, egg, and oil; mix well.
- Stir in raisins (note: I like to soften the raisins in hot water for a few minutes before adding them-they're plumper and softer that way).
- Pour into greased and floured 12-cup Bundt or 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Bake at 325 F.
- for 50- 60 mins, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 15 mins.
- Serve with Quick Yogurt Glaze: Glaze: In small bowl, combine Dannon Plain Nonfat Yogurt, brown sugar and vanilla.
- Beat with fork or whisk until smooth.
- (This is also good with orange or lemon extract instead of vanilla).
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Reviews
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Moist and delicious! -
Very good. The flavor of the spice and apples was good. I did use 1 apple finely chopped instead of the raisins and substitued 1 cup of Splenda and 3/4 cup of brown sugar for the sugar.
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GREAT! I omitted the raisins because I don't care for them in my baked goods. So moist and yummy! -
Pretty nice spice cake. I made it in a 13x9 inch pan and we ate half on its own (no glaze) and froze the rest. I pulled it out of the freezer the night before Thanksgiving and put the glaze on it for Thanksgiving brunch. Nice flavor, not as moist as I was hoping. And while I usually love a lot of "stuff" in cakes I thought there were more raisins in this one then I liked. A few less next time. -
Very nice recipe I will definetely make it again.
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Tweaks
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Instead of sugar in the cake, I substituted with 1/2 cup In the Raw agave syrup and 1 cup Splenda for Baking in the cake. For the glaze, I used Stevia imitation brown sugar. It was moist and delicious.
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What a lovely spice cake! I have to admit, I thought this would be okay, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. The spices are very well balanced- providing just enough flavor to the cake without being overwhelming. I was really surprised at how apple-y this tastes! Most recipes I have made with applesauce have no ended up tasting very much like apples. I completely flaked and forgot the raisins, which I realized as I was putting this in the oven, so I just left them out. I opted to bake this in 2 9x5 loaf pans, and have froze one for later, but at the rate the first loaf is going I may have to defrost it soon! The yogurt glaze is really lovely- a little different and much less sweet than most glazes I have made in the past, and it compliments the cake very well. The cake itself is lovely and very moist, and as I said before, it has a great balance of flavors. I have to admit, I did make a few subs- I used Sucanat instead of sugar, whole wheat pastry flour for the flour and substitued the yogurt in the cake for buttermilk as I wanted to make the glaze and didn't have enough for both. It turned out wonderfully and I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a great spice cake that has tons of flavor, but not tons of fat! Great recipe.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
mal in missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Hi! I'm a 30ish woman living in KCMO with my cat--or should I say, she lets me live with her! I love to cook, and often cook and bake for my coworkers at the bookstore where I used to work. My favorite foods are desserts and breads. I tried the no-carb diet once and lasted all of one day :)!When I'm not cooking, I love to do crafts, go to movies, and read. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I'm addicted to crime TV shows and some reality shows like "Trauma: Life in the E.R." & "Paramedics". I also collect cookbooks. I'm looking forward to posting recipes and getting to know fellow "foodies"!
