Purchased reduced fat or fat-free pound cake is sliced and layered with fresh mangoes and a fluffy slightly sweet lime cream cheese filling. Great taste with only 7 grams of fat per serving.

Mango Key Lime Pound Cake

Key Lime Cream:
1 (8-ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
1 1/4 cups light whipped topping, thawed, if frozen
1/2 cup Equal® Spoonful*
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

Cake:
1 (10 3/4-ounce) package frozen reduced-fat or fat-free pound cake, thawed
1 large ripe mango, peeled, seeded, thinly sliced

1. For Key Lime Cream, beat cream cheese in mixing bowl on medium speed of mixer until smooth. Gradually beat in whipped topping, Equal®, lime juice and peel, and vanilla. Set aside.
2. For Cake, cut pound cake horizontally into 3 slices. Place bottom layer of cake on serving plate. Spread with 1/4 cup of the cream cheese mixture. Top with one-third of the sliced mango, and another 1/4 cup of the cream mixture. Repeat layers twice. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours before serving.

Makes 8 servings.

* May substitute 12 packets Equal sweetener

Nutrition Information Per Serving: calories 219, protein 5 g, carbohydrate 33 g, fat 7 g, cholesterol 16 mg, sodium 216 mg.

Food Exchanges: 1 1/2 starch, 1/2 fruit, 1 1/2 fat.

Recipe provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®.

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