Italian Cream Cake (Low Sugar)
Recipe: #8573
March 12, 2013
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Layer, Cheese, Pecan, Coconut, Italian, Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, Diabetic, Low Carbohydrate, Sugar Substitute, Cake Mix, Cream Cheese, more
"I love Italian cream cake, but it doesn't love me. I had to find a way to get rid of most of the sugar so I could enjoy without worrying about my health."
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (174.9 g)
- Calories 542.4
- Total Fat - 33.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 16.5 g
- Cholesterol - 81.8 mg
- Sodium - 412.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 55.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2 g
- Sugars - 19 g
- Protein - 8.4 g
- Calcium - 155.2 mg
- Iron - 1.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375F.
Step 2
In an electric mixer, mix cake mix, buttermilk, melted coconut oil, and egg yolks until smooth. Mix in chopped pecans and coconut.
Step 3
In an electric mixer (I have 2 bowls- if you only have one, empty out the batter into a mixing bowl; clean your mixer bowl and dry it thoroughly before using in the next step). Beat the three egg whites until stiff; gently fold egg whites into cake batter.
Step 4
Pour batter into well greased and flour coated cake pans of your choice. Bake as directed for your type of cake pan. Usually these cakes are done as a triple layer cake, but I am lay-zee and often choose to just make a cake in an oblong cake pan. It fits in my refrigerator more easily as well.
Step 5
Allow cake to cool. Meanwhile, prepare cream cheese frosting by blending the softened cream cheese with half of the sugar free frosting; spread over cake.
Step 6
Sprinkle additional chopped pecans over the top of the frosting.
Step 7
Use remaining frosting for another use, or mix with just a tiny dab of the gel coloring (a dab goes a VERY long way), place into piping bag and use to decorate your cake as desired.
Step 8
Refrigerate cake until needed, and again with any uneaten portions.
Tips
No special items needed.