Diet Dessert Cake

  Diet Dessert Cake - This rich, sweet, dessert cake, starring healthy carrots, and sweet pineapple, has no sugar added! An all natural sweetness, even in the rich cream cheese frosting, from the golden pineapple. Great for potlucks, as anyone can eat it, and it is very quick and easy to make.

Prep Time: 15-20 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Servings: 8
Main Ingredient: Carrot, Pineapple
Difficulty Level: 2

Ingredients to make Diet Dessert Cake

1/2 c Low Fat margarine,softened
3 Eggs** For low fat use egg substitute
1 c Thawed frozen unsweetened pineapple juice concentrate
2 ts Vanilla
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour
2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Ground nutmeg
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Salt
3 c Shredded carrots

ICING
8 oz Cream cheese, softened
1 cn (8 oz) crushed pineapple in unsweetened juice,drained
1 ts Vanilla

Directions to make Diet Dessert Cake

Step 1:Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat butter in large bowl until creamy. Blend in eggs, pineapple juice concentrate and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt. Gradually add to egg mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in carrots.
Step 2:Spread batter evenly into greased 12 x 8 inch baking dish. Bake 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on wire rack.
Step 3:Prepare Icing by combining all ingredients. Spread over cooled cake.

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Banana Fruit Streusel Pie

  Banana Fruit Streusel Pie - Have a little “taste of the tropics” with this phenomenal fruit dessert! The incrediblely fresh flavors of banana, pineapple, and lemon, oven baked over a wonderful streusel base. Then baked golden, with the tasty and always popular cinnamon.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Main Ingredient: Banana
Difficulty Level: 2

Ingredients to make Banana Fruit Streusel Pie

Pastry for single crust pie
4 c Ripe bananas,sliced
1/2 c Unsweetened pineapple juice
2 tb Lemon juice
1 1/2 ts Finely shredded lemon peel
1/4 c Sugar
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1 t Cornstarch

STREUSEL
1/2 c Flour
1/2 c Brown sugar,packed
1/3 c Macadamia nuts,chopped
1 t Ground cinnamon
1/4 c Butter or margarine

Directions to make Banana Fruit Streusel Pie

Step 1:Prepare and roll out pie crust. Place pastry in 9 inch pie plate. Line the unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of foil. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 8 minutes. Remove foil. Bake 4-6 minutes more or until pastry is golden. Remove from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Step 2:Meanwhile, in medium mixing bowl gently toss together bananas, pineapple juice, and lemon juice. Drain, reserving juices. Gently toss bananas with lemon peel, sugar and cinnamon. Turn mixture into pastry shell. In a small saucepan, combine the reserved juices and cornstarch. Cook and stir over medium heat till thickened and bubbly. Pour over banana mixture in shell.
Step 3:For streusel, combine the flour, brown sugar, nuts and cinnamon. With a pastry blender or 2 forks, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle banana mixture. Cover edge of pie with foil. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 40 minutes or until topping is golden and edges are bubbly.