Samara Evangeline: Celebratory {Skinny} Coffeecake

This past weekend, I actually had an entire weekend off from work. If that wasn't reason enough to celebrate, receiving a 4.0 in my most recently completed grad school course certainly was! I decided to use this weekend of having a teensy time to myself to try out a healthy and delicious recipe I recently pinned on Pinterest--Skinny Coffeecake!

Skinny Coffeecake paired with Cafe Americano

I've been trying to slowly incorporate healthy recipes back into our household diet, and that includes (healthier) sweets. After all, healthy living should be a way of life, not intervals of punishment!

This recipe I found boasts a mere FOUR Weight Watchers points per serving. OK, that's four points for made-from-scratch, ooey goodness of coffee cake. So without further adieu, here is the recipe for Skinny Coffeecake!

Ingredients

For the cake:
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2/3 cup brown sugar

2 large eggs, room temperature
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Dash of salt
1 cup nonfat vanilla Chobani

Topping:
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup chopped almonds

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8 x 8 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside. In another bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt until mixed.

2. In a large bowl, beat the butter, applesauce, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla until creamed. Mix the Chobani into the appleasauce mixture until fully combined. Add the flour mixture and stir until fully combined. Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared baking dish.

3. To make the topping, mix the sugars, pumpkin pie spice and almonds together. Sprinkle 1/2 of the topping over the batter. Cover the rest of the batter and then sprinkle the remaining topping over the batter.

4. Bake cake for about 35* minutes or until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

* The recipe on Pinterest called for 35 minutes. Others said it took them longer than 35 minutes. For me, I cooked this exactly 33 minutes. It was moist, but to make it so moist that I can press my fork down into it and retrieve it without issue, I'm going to cook it for just a couple of minutes less than 33. Please note, though, my oven tends to run hot, so try sticking with the 35 minutes for the first time and adjust to your taste/preference.

Nutritional information per slice:
Calories: 170.5
Fat: 4 grams
Carbohydrates: 28.03
Fiber: 2.5 grams
Protein: 5.3 grams