Weight Watchers' Halloween Recipes
Today is Halloween! If you're looking for some treats that won't interfere with your diet, check out these recipes from Weight Watchers!
Mini Brownie Cupcakes
- 21 oz regular brownie dry mix
- ½ cup(s) water
- ½ cup(s) unsweetened applesauce
- 2 large egg white(s), lightly beaten
- 1 Tbsp powdered sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 36 mini muffin tin holes with mini cupcake wrappers.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine brownie mix, water, applesauce and egg whites. Mix 50 times with a wooden spoon (use 50 strokes); do not under or over mix. Pour brownie mixture into prepared muffin tins, about 1 tablespoon per hole.
3. Bake cupcakes until a tester inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely; remove cupcakes from pan. Before serving, dust with powdered sugar. Yields 1 cupcake per serving.
Praline Pumpkin Cake
- 1 spray(s) cooking spray
- 15 oz. canned pumpkin
- 12 oz. fat free evaporated milk
- ¼ cup(s) regular liquid egg substitute
- ½ cup(s) sugar
- 4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 18 ¼ oz unprepared white cake mix
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat bottom and sides of a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
2. Stir pumpkin, milk, egg substitute, sugar and pumpkin pie spice together in a medium bowl until smooth; pour into pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix over pumpkin mixture and gently press it into pumpkin mixture to moisten. Sprinkle cake with pecans and then drizzle margarine evenly over top.
3. Bake, uncovered until knife inserted in center of cake comes out clean, about 50 to 60 minutes. Cool completely before slicing into 16 pieces.
Warm Spiced Baked Apples
- 4 medium fresh (apple)s, baking variety, halved through the step end, cored
- 2 tbsp packed brown sugar
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 3 tbsp water
- ¼ cup(s) chopped walnuts, or pecans, toasted
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Place the apples, cut side up, in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with the brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice.
3. Sprinkle the water in the bottom of the baking dish. Cover the baking dish with foil. Bake the apples until tender when pierced with the tip of a knife, about 25 minutes. Sprinkle the apples evenly with the walnuts. Yields 2 apple halves per serving.
