Mandarin Orange Cake

This cake is so delightful. I can not tell you the amount of people who have asked for this recipe. I was just at a birthday party the other day and they had this cake. So good and refreshing.

I got it from the book "101 things to do with a cake mix". To make the cake take:

1 box yellow (I have used white as well) cake mix
1/3 cup oil
3 tablespoons water
3 large eggs
1 small can Mandarin orange slices with the juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the above together and place batter in the greased 9 x 13 pan or three round pans.

Bake for 23-25 mins or until center comes out clean.

While that is baking for the frosting:

one large box (I am using a regular box)
12 oz cool whip topping
1 can crushed pineapple (I use the small can)

Mix this together and spread on cool cake and keep in the fridge. It is so yummy. I use sugar free cool whip and pudding. You can not tell the difference. Today I am making it with the gluten free cake mix just to try it out. The cake is so moist from the fruit that you don't have to worry about pinching corners. Good luck it is awesome I tell you, awesome.

Weight watchers points would be a 3. I figured it and it came out 2 pts but I forgot to figure the oil so it would be a 3 pt treat.

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Weight Watchers Journey

My daughter and I joined weight watchers. I lost weight there before and I think it is a good thing for us all to be doing the same thing in the household. Here is a few recipes that I made tonight and yummo.
Blueberry Bars.....so simple: 1 can light blueberry pie filling (I couldn't find any light so I used regular) 1 box angel food cake mix Mix the two together and put the mixture into 13x9 pan into the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 mins until light and fluffy. Cut into squares (16 pcs) and 2 points a square.

These are going to bake up really fluffy then when they set they will fall down. They are very blueberry sweet, a little chewy from the angel food cake and very tasty. The two points were worth it.


Lemon Bars.....so, so simple: 1 box sugar free vanilla pudding (mix with two cups cold milk and let set up) 1 box sugar free lemon pudding (mix dry mix into the set up vanilla pudding) 1 box angel food cake mix ( mix the dry mix into pudding and
put into 13x9 pan) bake on 350 for about 30 mins. Cool, cut and sprinkle with
powdered sugar. 2 weight watcher points for each square.

The lemon squares turned out wonderful as well and so lemontastically good!!

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