Pumpkin Angel Food Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Angel Food Cake Recipe

September 8, 2016   26 Comments

This pumpkin angel food cake recipe is great for the Weight Watchers’ crowd and the lazy crowd.

I don’t believe there is a Weight Watchers’ lazy crowd because it is a ton of work to change your diet and lifestyle – hang in there, buddies!

A slice of this cake is only 4 SmartPoints and takes just 3 ingredients (4 if you count water).

The best part is that you will be using pumpkin spice which is very hip right about now. Every year, I go down the pumpkin spice path with a number of recipes. Last year, I shared pumpkin spiced muffins and a pumpkin spiced smoothie.

It is fun to buy cans of pumpkin and dream about what you can do with them because pumpkin is inexpensive, low in calories, and is considered a fruit. Fruit is easy to work with as compared with let’s say – beets – which no one wants to eat.

You can find the pumpkin in the baking section of your supermarket with the canned cherry and apple pie filling. I kept looking for it next to the other canned vegetables and fruit but, alas, it is considered a baking item.

After doing this job since 2009, I could write a book about how to find ingredients in a grocery store. It seems like every time I go, I have to find something new and it drives me bonkers.

It would be cool to have an app that would scan my terrible handwritten grocery list and then shows me which aisles and shelves my food is in.

Never going to happen.

The pumpkin spice works in angel food cake because on its own angel food cake doesn’t have a lot of flavor. My kids LOVED this and I loved that it was only 92 calories for a slice.

I thought this was great served with a little whipped cream and a coffee.

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Pumpkin Angel Food Cake Recipe

Makes 16 slices

1 (16 oz) package angel food cake mix
1 cup water
1 (15 oz) can pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons pumpkin spice (more or less to taste)

Heat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a 9x13 glass baking dish. Beat the water into angel food cake mix for 1 minute using a whisk. Fold in pumpkin and pumpkin spice and spread in prepared dish. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the center has set.

Cool completely before serving. This can be frozen.

For once slice = 92 calories, 0.2 g fat, 0.0 g saturated fat, 21.0 g carbohydrates, 10.6 g sugar, 2.2 g protein, 0.9 g fiber, 164 mg sodium, 4 SmartPts

Points values are calculated by Snack Girl and are provided for information only. See all Snack Girl Recipes

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I am excited to try this recipe. Thanks

on September 8, 2016

How did you figure this out? This will be a terrific replacement for some of the heavier desserts that appear at Thanksgiving. Think of the vitamin A!!!!

on September 8, 2016

@Jennie - any time you mix something with Angel Food Cake - you are going to get a lighter dessert because angel food cake is only egg whites and sugar. No butter, less flour, no yolks. Thanks for your question!

on September 8, 2016

Make sure you don't buy pumpkin pie FILLING. It drastically changes the stats and points (not in a good way). I have been making a similar recipe for years using Angel Food Cake mix and crushed pineapple. Delicious and I'm sure this one will be also.

on September 8, 2016

This sounds so simple and delicious! I cannot wait to give it a try. :)

on September 8, 2016

Going to a tea Sunday so this is what I will make and maybe surprise people!

on September 8, 2016

just a note to your comment about finding stuff in a grocery aisle? if you download the Walmart ap - type in what you want, and if you have a 'favorite' store listed, it will tell you what aisle it's in. Even if you don't shop at Walmart, you can use it to help identify what aisle it might be in at a different store? I'm pretty sure they all operate with the same basic business model, eh? Thanks for the great recipes! Def trying this one!

on September 8, 2016

I'm excited to make this too. This weekend I'll make it.
Just so you know I am addicted to your no bake balls. I love the chocolate ones. Instead of 2 T water I use almond milk. Makes the texture smooth and creamy. I've also used wonder cocoa which is fat free and caffeine free, but you do have to use more al one milk dye to its drier texture.

on September 8, 2016

If you have Publix in your area you can create your shopping list on their website, pick your favorite store and it shows you what aisle the item is on.

on September 8, 2016

so excited to make this as my granddaughter loves anything pumpkin..The plus side is that it is so darn easy to make.
Thanks for posting lisa....

on September 8, 2016

This sounds delightful. I have one complication - i cannot have any gluten. Is there an easy work-around? Have you seen any gluten free angel food boxes by chance?

thanks for all your creative ideas!!

on September 8, 2016

This looks delish Lisa, but I am puzzled by the instruction to grease the baking dish. Every Angel Food cake recipe I have ever seen warns against doing this as the cake will not rise up the sides of the pan. Perhaps this only applies to baking in a tube pan? Any thoughts?

on September 8, 2016

Yum! I'm all about the pumpkin spice. I've also made the cake using pineapple like Kris mentioned. I also made it using homemade applesauce. So easy and great flavor! Phyllis, I think the no grease is to let it rise up the walls of the tube pan but since this is made kind of like a sheet cake you don't have to worry about that? Thanks for the great idea Lisa!

on September 8, 2016

I am curious, can you use a traditional angel food cake pan or do the added ingredients make it so that it will not rise correctly? I use to make angel food cakes and will definitely be trying this! Thanks!

on September 8, 2016

A bunch of really good questions here! I did it in a casserole pan and didn't grease it - and it stuck like crazy. I think you need to grease it because you are significantly changing it with the pumpkin.

I am not sure if it would work in an angel food cake pan - it is quite a bit more volume than a regular angel food cake. Has anyone tried it?

Thanks for all the great questions!

on September 9, 2016

Can not find 18 ounce angel food cake mix. Had to buy cake 2 mixes
to make per recipe. I froze the cake mix, that I had to take 2 ounces out of mix. My family loved the cake.

on September 14, 2016

I have used pumpkin in Chocolate cake before too. You can't taste the pumpkin but it makes a very moist cake and I learned this from Weight Watchers.

on September 14, 2016

Looks like an easy breezy cake to make. Can't wait to start.
Linda

on September 16, 2016

I wonder if I could do this with a made from scratch angel food cake.

on September 22, 2016

Where would you find an 18oz box of angel food cake mix?

on October 27, 2016

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