Low calorie pumpkin spice latte cake
The perfect autumnal sweet treat with a spiced sponge topped with a creamy, frosting bursting with coffee flavor!
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 50 g pumpkin purée
- 50 g 0 calorie brown sugar*
- 40 g self-raising flour
- 1½ tsp pumpkin pie spice
Frosting:
- 150 g 0% fat Greek yogurt
- 30 g 0 calorie powdered sugar
- 1 tsp instant coffee or espresso powder + ½ tsp water to dissolve instant coffee
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC (356ºF). Line a 6-inch cake tin with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the egg until it starts to get a little foamy. Add the 0 calorie brown sugar and pumpkin puree and whisk again until smooth and well combined. Add the flour and pumpkin spice mix and whisk until smooth.
- Grease the cake tin with a few 1-cal spraysTransfer the batter to the cake tin and bake for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool on a baking rack and make the frosting by whisking together the yogurt, 0 calorie icing sugar and coffee until smooth.
- Frost the cooled cake, slice and enjoy!
Notes
*0 calorie brown sugar - If you don't have 0 calorie brown sugar, you can use any other 0 calorie sweetener but be mindful of the conversion. If it is a 1:1 ratio of sweetener to sugar, use the amount specified in this recipe but if it is 1:2, 1:3 etc of sweetener to sugar, ensure you cut down the amount stated above according to the ratio of your sweetener.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 SliceCalories: 83kcalCarbohydrates: 22.7gProtein: 6.6gFat: 1.7gCholesterol: 2.8mgSodium: 35mgPotassium: 101.8mgSugar: 2.1g
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