Me and Three: Not so Naughty Cake

My assistant in the kitchen and mix master-Jack, loves helping pour, stir, and mix up yummy stuff in the kitchen. My Mom Mom has made him his own little chef's hat and apron to help him with his culinary pursuits. Isn't he cute?

There he is on Christmas morning, checking out his new kitchen get-up. :) Since we are all trying to slim down and watch what we are eating, we decided to try a lighter version of cake for Valentine's Day. We tried the version seen on, My Three Sons blog. We used another recipe for frosting. It is the same recipe that a lot of you might have had in all those yummy 4th of July Angel Food cake and berries trifle desserts. It worked out great!

Here's how we did it.

1 box of whatever cake mix (we used strawberry for Valentine's Day)

12 oz of Sprite Zero

Mix it until you get most of lumps out. Since you will be hand mixing, you won't be able to get it completely smooth like normal cakes do.

Bake it. You will need to watch it. The recipe says 350 degrees 30 mins or check at 25 mins. Our cake was split into two 8" round pans and the toothpick came out clean at just 18 minutes.

Frosting:

1 box of pudding (the small one, about 3 oz)

1 cup of milk

1 container of cool whip

mix pudding and milk together until smooth and then fold in cool whip. Ice your cake. :)

Here's how ours turned out.