Sugar-Free Cake Bites
Thank you to our awesome Cook'n Readers Grace & Jim for their ingenius idea!...
Hi Kathy,
I've been making cake bites all day... the sugar free kind! Thought I'd forward the recipe (based on yours) to you. You might want to post it along with yours on your site. These aren't quite as good as yours (can't be without the sugar) but they are pretty close! My hubby also came up with a couple of tricks that made them a tiny bit faster too.
(about 51 calories each)
2 Pillsbury Sugar Free cake mixes (made as per directions)
2 Pillsbury Sugar Free Icing Tubs
20 Ounces of dipping Chocolate
colored dipping chocolate for drizzle (about 5 oz.) or colored
cake decoration gel (not quite as good but works).
Bake two sugar free cakes as per the box directions. When done, while still warm, dump into a large mixing bowl. Add 2 tubs of sugar free icing. Cut icing into cake until there are no white stripes in the cake mixture.
Double line a jelly roll pan with wax paper. Dump the above mixture into the jelly roll pan, cover with double wax paper after spreading more or less evenly throughout the pan. Take your rolling pin and gently roll across the jelly roll pan until the cake/icing mixture is even and there are no voids.
Wrap in foil and place in the freezer for several hours or over night.
When you are ready to dip cake bites, take the jelly roll pan out of the freezer. With a ruler, lightly draw cutting lines going both directions on the pan (usually rulers are about 1" wide so it's easy to lay the ruler on the cake mixture and draw the lines). Then starting at the short end, cut all the way through to the waxed paper below, making strips of cake mixture.
At this point, take out the cake mixture, one strip at a time. If one cake bite is a bit smaller on one side than the others, start cutting the 1" squares adjusting the width as you go. By the third or fourth bite, you should be almost back on your originally drawn lines. Now follow Kathy's original directions for dipping and decorating the cake bites.
These aren't quite as delicious as the originals, but for those of us that can't have sugar, they are pretty darn good! Happy Eating!
Grace & Jim Shaw
Maryland
Hi Kathy,
I've been making cake bites all day... the sugar free kind! Thought I'd forward the recipe (based on yours) to you. You might want to post it along with yours on your site. These aren't quite as good as yours (can't be without the sugar) but they are pretty close! My hubby also came up with a couple of tricks that made them a tiny bit faster too.
Sugar Free Cake Bites
(about 51 calories each)
2 Pillsbury Sugar Free cake mixes (made as per directions)
2 Pillsbury Sugar Free Icing Tubs
20 Ounces of dipping Chocolate
colored dipping chocolate for drizzle (about 5 oz.) or colored
cake decoration gel (not quite as good but works).
Bake two sugar free cakes as per the box directions. When done, while still warm, dump into a large mixing bowl. Add 2 tubs of sugar free icing. Cut icing into cake until there are no white stripes in the cake mixture.
Double line a jelly roll pan with wax paper. Dump the above mixture into the jelly roll pan, cover with double wax paper after spreading more or less evenly throughout the pan. Take your rolling pin and gently roll across the jelly roll pan until the cake/icing mixture is even and there are no voids.
Wrap in foil and place in the freezer for several hours or over night.
When you are ready to dip cake bites, take the jelly roll pan out of the freezer. With a ruler, lightly draw cutting lines going both directions on the pan (usually rulers are about 1" wide so it's easy to lay the ruler on the cake mixture and draw the lines). Then starting at the short end, cut all the way through to the waxed paper below, making strips of cake mixture.
At this point, take out the cake mixture, one strip at a time. If one cake bite is a bit smaller on one side than the others, start cutting the 1" squares adjusting the width as you go. By the third or fourth bite, you should be almost back on your originally drawn lines. Now follow Kathy's original directions for dipping and decorating the cake bites.
These aren't quite as delicious as the originals, but for those of us that can't have sugar, they are pretty darn good! Happy Eating!
Grace & Jim Shaw
Maryland
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