Apples are one of my favorite fruits and I eat at least one a day. They are portable, sweet, crunchy and pretty to look at. Although I like them in their natural state they also make delicious desserts!
This is a simple coffeecake that has big flavor! Apples, sour cream and apple juice combine to create an exceptionally moist flavorful cake. Your kitchen will be filled with the aroma of cinnamon as this bakes. Put on a pot of coffee or make a pot of hot tea to enjoy with a big slice of this cake for under 200 calories and just Old WWPs : 3!
Sour Cream Apple Coffee Cake
- 1 cup unbleached flour (or sub whole wheat pastry flour)
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour pastry flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup apple juice
- 1/4 cup nonfat sour cream
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 2 1/2 cups diced peeled apples ( I like Braeburn)
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons dark raisins or dried cranberries
Topping:
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons toasted wheat germ or finely chopped walnuts
To make the topping, combine the brown sugar and wheat germ or nuts in a small bowl and stir to mix well. Set aside.
Combine the flours, sugar, baking soda, and cinnamon in a medium bowl and stir to mix well. Stir in the apple juice, sour cream, and egg white. Fold in the apples and raisins.
Coat a 9-inch round pan with nonstick cooking spray and spread the batter evenly in the pan. Sprinkle the topping over the batter and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 33 minutes, or just until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Cool the cake to room temperature, cut into 8 wedges, and serve.
Yield: 8 servings
Nutritional Information
Per Serving: 200 Calories; 2g Fat (7.2% calories from fat); 4g Protein; 44g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 1mg Cholesterol; 172mg Sodium.
Old WWP 3 / New WWPP 5
Adapted from Sandra Woodruff’s Secrets of Fat Free Baking
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Carol says:
February 1, 2010 at 5:42 pm (UTC -7)
OH YUM!!!!!!
Tami says:
February 1, 2010 at 9:25 pm (UTC -7)
Yum is right Carol! This coffee cake is wonderful.
Weight Watcher Wannabe says:
February 4, 2010 at 6:13 pm (UTC -7)
Oh my word… Im going to give this a try on the weekend, and at only 3 ww points yah hoo……Looks fantastic…
Tami says:
February 4, 2010 at 7:03 pm (UTC -7)
I hope you like it as much as I do. Sometimes you just want your cake and eat it too!
emily @ www.helpemilylose.blogspot.com says:
February 11, 2010 at 9:53 pm (UTC -7)
i have a recipe for some healthy apple muffins that i haven’t tried yet but they have no added sugar or fat. they use apples and apple juice concentrate to sweeten them and buttermilk keeps them moist. anyway, i was thinking maybe you could get that 1/2 of sugar out of there if you used apple juice concentrate instead of apple juice.
Tami says:
February 12, 2010 at 7:06 am (UTC -7)
Hi Emily,
The recipe for healthy apple muffins sounds interesting. Will you be posting it on your blog? If I took the sugar out and added apple juice concentrate would I increase the flour to compensate for the extra liquid? I am not sure how to go about that. I know that with baking it all comes down to chemistry and the balance of liquids to dry ingredients has to be exact for the end result to be just right!
Let me knowyour thoughts on this.
Blessings, Tami