Low Fat Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

Cinnamon swirl crumb cake

Cake:

6 ounce vanilla fat free yogurt

1/4 cup skim milk

2 eggs

1 Tbl vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups reduced fat biscuit mix

1/3 cup sugar

1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon

Topping:

½ cup brown sugar

2 Tbl light butter

½ cup reduced fat biscuit mix

1 Tbl cinnamon

2 Tbl confectionary sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Use non stick spray on a 9 inch round pan.

In a large bowl whisk yogurt, milk, eggs, oil and vanilla until smooth.  Add 1 cup biscuit mix, combine, add sugar, combine then add remaining biscuit mix and combine completely.  Pour batter into prepared pan, but, reserve 1 cup batter and stir in 1 ½ tsp cinnamon.  Drop cinnamon batter by teaspoonfuls cover batter and swirl into mixture.

In a separate bowl prepare topping excluding confectionary sugar.  Sprinkle over batter.

Bake for approximately 25 – 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.  Cool completely.  When cool, shake confectionary sugar over top of cake.

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What is in a label?

We're trying to be more health conscious this year  and  my  daughter is taking a fit and well class in college, so we are reading labels a lot.  Well, I pulled a few items from my pantry that I thought were "healthy" and let me tell you, I was wrong.

1.  Whole berry cranberry sauce. It's fruit, it has to be good for you. But it has high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup. Two times!!

2.  Roasted Raspberry Chipotle Sauce.  Again with the sugar and smoke flavorings.  Did someone hold the sauce over a campfire? Blow cigarette smoke into it? How is smoke flavoring natural??

3.  Tuna fish.  Contains soy?  HUH?? I don't get that, but they are nice enough to notify me that the can contains fish!

4.  Pumpkin spice flavored jello instant pudding.  I like to sprinkle that into my coffee as flavoring.  It contains disodium phosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, BHA and other things.

So, we will try to buy things that are easily pronounced.  I have chemicals that I can read easier!

Mint Cookies

Just a reminder, if you can't afford mint cookies from the girls, here's my recipe for Mint Cookies:

1 cup mint chips or candies ( I used 25 Andies candies)
18 ritz crackers

In a microwave safe bowl, melt candies for approximately 1 minute and stir until smooth.  Microwave @ 20 second increments if not completely melted and smooth.

Dip ritz crackers into melted chocolate.  Flip and completely coat cracker.  Place on a piece of waxed paper to harden.

Makes 18 cookies that will be eaten as fast as you make them!!

Enjoy!