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Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Whether you’re on Plan Z (or any other diet), the holidays can be difficult. Even if you have solid discipline, your relatives and friends can try to sabotage you. Most of us don’t have great discipline, so a combination of both can be fatal to dieting success.

I’m going to get right to the list of options that I have found successful in straying from a diet for a day. This won’t be successful if you try to do it a whole long weekend but if a day will help you feel more like part of the celebration, then these are strategies you can employ and usually “get away with it” without much damage when you step on the scale the next morning.

First, let’s talk alcohol...

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Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This is a quick cake that can be served at a party. You don’t need large pieces when something has as much flavor as this does. Pumpkin treats are a big hit in the fall and over the holidays.

 

Servings: Serves 12

Ingredients:

The Cake

2 Tbl of melted butter
1 cup of pureed pumpkin (from the can)
½ cup of ZSweet or Swerve sugar substitute
4 eggs (room temperature)
1 tsp of vanilla
½ tsp of grated sea salt
1-1/4 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of cinnamon
¼ tsp of pumpkin pie spice
1/3 tsp of nutmeg
¼ cup of coconut flour or Carbalose flour
¾ cup of Super Fine Ground almond flour

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