[mitchy]

I have a cupcake recipe I am wanting to make and I have no idea how to find the points value for it. There are only 2 ingredients, a box of sugar free cake mix and a can of Slim Fast. It may not sound good but they really are tasty.

I have an idea how to do this but am not sure if I am right so I won't try it til I am sure of the points. On the cake mix it list the mix only as being 160 calories with 1 gram of fiber and 3 grams of fat. But also list it as being 250 calories baked, which includes 3 eggs and 1/2 cup of oil. And for the Slim Fast the calories are 220 with 5 grams of fiber and 3 grams of fat.

So do I just take the cake mix alone (dry) and add that to the Slim Fast and then divide by the # of servings I get?

[katmeow]

I would think so ... yes. Because you aren't using the other ingredients that factor into the typical baked product. You could run it through recipe builder on WW using just those two ingredients and estimate how many servings you would get. It will spit out a points value per serving. If you have never used it, you need to enter the # of servings at the bottom once you get both ingredients entered.

[modkittn]

Originally Posted by mitchy

So do I just take the cake mix alone (dry) and add that to the Slim Fast and then divide by the # of servings I get?

Well, not with the POINTS value. Add up the total calories fat and fiber for the whole box of dry cake mix (alone) and the whole can of Slim Fast. Then divide each of those (cal/fat/fiber) by the number of servings. Then use those number to determine the POINTS value of each serving.

I know the Recipe Builder online does it a little different but if you don't have e-Tools this is the best way to figure out the POINTS.

[mitchy]

OK let me see if I have this right. I take the calories, fiber and fat for both products and add them together (380 cal \ 6 grams of fiber \ 6 grams of fat). The box says that it will yield 24 cupcakes so when I divided that by 24 I get: 16 cal \ .25 fiber \ .25 fat. That just doesn't look right to me, what do you all think?

See this is why I hate math lol

[modkittn]

Originally Posted by mitchy

OK let me see if I have this right. I take the calories, fiber and fat for both products and add them together (380 cal \ 6 grams of fiber \ 6 grams of fat). The box says that it will yield 24 cupcakes so when I divided that by 24 I get: 16 cal \ .25 fiber \ .25 fat. That just doesn't look right to me, what do you all think?

See this is why I hate math lol

Maybe an example would help! Let's say that this is the information for the dry cake mix:
100 cal \ 2 grams of fiber \ 3 grams of fat (per serving) - 24 servings in the box

So you need to get the information for THE WHOLE MIX. Take your serving information and multiply everything by the number of servings (24) so that the information for the WHOLE DRY CAKE MIX is:
2400 cal \ 48 fiber \ 72 fat

And this is for the Slim Fast:
220 cal \ 3 grams of fiber \ 2 grams of fat (per serving) - 1 servings

Since the Slim Fast is only 1 serving, you only multiply by 1, so nothing to do here - your total for the whole can is the total for 1 serving.

Now add the two together to get the amount of cal/fat/fiber for the WHOLE SLIM FAST CAKE:
2620 cal \ 51 fiber \ 74 fat - all 24 pieces of cake (I'm assuming it makes the same number of servings as the cake)

Now, take these numbers and divide by the number of servings to get the amount of cal/fat/fiber for one serving of your slim fast cake:
109 cal / 2 fat / 3 fiber
And use that for the POINTS value per serving of your cake.

Good luck!

[mitchy]

Thank you so much for the help. That makes so much more sense lol.

[kelijpa]

I want to try this recipe, sounds interesting. The cooking time and temp. is the same as regular cupcakes?

[mitchy]

As far as I know the baking time is the same. But just to be safe you might want to keep watching them.