Skinny Orange Creamsicle Cake

Name: Skinny Orange Dreamsicle Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 1 box white cake mix; 1 {12 oz.} can 10-calorie Sunkist; 1 {8 oz.} pkg. 1/3 reduced fat cream cheese (softened); 1 cup powdered sugar; 1 Tbsp. fresh squeezed orange juice; 2 tsp. fresh orange zest; 1 {8 oz.} tub light whipped topping; {Optional} Fresh orange slices for garnish

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This Skinny Orange Creamsicle Cake is awesome for when you want a dessert, without all of the calories. It doesn’t taste like a low-calorie cake at all either!

If there is one thing I love, it is a good dessert and this Skinny Orange Creamsicle Cake is a dang good dessert, my friends.

I have basically struggled my whole life to get to a weight that I’m happy with. After I had Addi, I trained for my first ever half marathon and that was one of the few times that I felt like I was mostly satisfied with how I looked and felt. I was also burning between 500 to 1,000 calories per day though, which totally isn’t manageable with my life right now.

My problem though, is that I don’t struggle losing weight because of working out, I struggle because I eat poorly. Like, really poorly. I can go workout and feel awesome and tell myself that I’m going to eat well all day long and then the moment I get home, there’s a piece of fudge staring me in the face and I just have to have it. That’s one of the reasons I am loving this Skinny Orange Creamsicle Cake. I can have my dessert and not worry about the caloric downsides to it as much as a lot of my other favorite desserts. I love that it doesn’t taste like it’s suppose to be low-calorie either! Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

I used a can of low-calorie Sunkist to create this awesome, moist, Skinny Orange Creamsicle Cake for you today and I can’t tell you how delicious it really is. Surprisingly enough, it actually does taste just like a creamsicle! It is made a lot like my Skinny Cream Cheese Lemon Cake {which is also absolutely amazing}, but the cake part in this one is made with just two ingredients – a cake mix and soda. Did you know that was possible?! I’ve made cobbler like that, but never an actual cake. I’m never making a cake any other way again. The texture is amazing and it’s so ridiculously moist that you can’t help but go back for more. I could eat this cake all day if you’d let me and since it’s low calorie – I might just do it.

Skinny Orange Dreamsicle Cake

Course Dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings 1 9-inch round cake

Author Sarah Averett

Ingredients

1 box white cake mix
1 {12 oz.} can 10-calorie Sunkist
1 {8 oz.} pkg. 1/3 reduced fat cream cheese softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tbsp. fresh squeezed orange juice
2 tsp. fresh orange zest
1 {8 oz.} tub light whipped topping
{Optional} Fresh orange slices for garnish

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF and spray a 9-inch springform pan with baking spray.
Add the cake mix and Sunkist together and stir until just combined. {Don't over mix}. Pour the batter into your prepared pan and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the powdered sugar and mix until fully incorporated. Then add the orange juice and orange zest until well combined.
Pour the cream cheese mixture over the cake batter and swirl a few times with a spoon or spatula.
Bake the cake for 32-35 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean. Let the cake cool completely.
Spread the whipped topping evenly over the cake so as to coat all of it and then top with your orange slices.