Chocolate Fudge Cake ~ 1.5pt/slice (not Core)

This is a moist, fudgy chocolate cake.
Sharon's recipe.

Sorry, no picture. It disappeared too quickly :)

Serves: 8

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup SR flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2/3 cup spoon-for-spoon artificial sweetener (Splenda or Equal)
• 1 egg
• 1 x 200g nonfat diet vanilla yoghurt
• 3 TB apple sauce

Method:

Mix everything with a wooden spoon
Spray oil into small loaf tin
Bake at 180*C for 25-30 mins.
Serve cold

Keep left overs in fridge if you have any

Each Slice (1/8th) = 1.5 pt

Whole recipe = 11.5 pts

Apple and Orange Cakes ~ 1 pt each (not Core)

These are not Core, but they are quick and easy to make,

very yummy and are only 1 pt each.

So enjoy without guilt.

Serves: 10 cakes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup SR flour
• 2/3 cup spoon-for-spoon artificial sweetener (Splenda or Equal)
• 3TB apple sauce
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• rind of one small orange, finely grated
• 1/2 can Ardmona pie apples
• 200g nonfat natural yoghurt (or diet vanilla), I used Jalna Fat Free Natural

Method:
Mix everything apart from apples with a wooden spoon
Spray oil into 10 1/2 cup muffin cups.
Divide mixture into the 10 holes.
Put 1 or 2 pieces of the pie apple on top of each mound of batter (you may need to cut big pieces in half)
Gently push the apple down into the batter so it is only slighly higher than the batter (try not to hit the bottom).
Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake at 180*C for 25-30 mins.
Serve hot, plain or with ice cream or custard (low fat of course)

Each Cake = 1 pt

Whole recipe = 11.5 pts

CORE Caramel Couscous Upside-down Cake

I suggest using a short round silicone cake tin.
Mine is 20cm wide and 3cm high and it filled it to the top - perfect.
It's a moist cake and using a high tin might break the cake when you turn it out.

Great for breakfast

Serves: 4+

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup dry couscous
• 1/2 cup hot water
• 3/4 cup Cottees Diet Caramel Topping (1 pt)
• 400g tin of pineapple slices in juice, drained
• 1/3 cup frozen berries
• 1 egg
• 100g vanilla diet yoghurt (or natural low fat and 2 tsp vanilla)

Method:
Mix couscous, water and 1/2 cup of the topping in a microwave bowl.
Microwave on high for 4 minutes (5 mins for under 1000W).
Stir, add the remaining caramel and let cool (15 minutes or so)
Mix in the egg and yoghurt.
Spray a baking tin with oil.
Arrange the pineapple rings in the base, adding large frozen berries in the center of the rings and filling the gaps with little ones.
Pour the couscous mixture over the top and smooth off.
Bake at 180*C for 30-35 minutes until firm and pulling away from the edges.
Put a plate upside-down on top of the cake tin. Gently flip the plate and tin and remove tin.

Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before cutting - it's a moist cake that is a litle fragile straight out the oven. You can always serve neat slices and warm in the microwave :)

Core + 1 pt for the recipe
If eaten at mealtimes, the cake is Core, but there is 1 pt, which rounds to "zero" if you have 4 serves

Not on Core? The total of this recipe is approx 8.5 points (2 for a quarter size serving)