Healthy Thanksgiving Dessert: Persimmon Streusel Cake

Take advantage of the fall harvest by baking up this moist and low-fat Persimmon Streusel Cake from diabeticlivingonline.com.

Not only is this delicious fruit pie a healthy alternative to fattening desserts this Thanksgiving, but the consumption of persimmons delivers your daily dose of fiber and vitamin A.

Ingredients

Cake

• Nonstick Cooking Spray
• 1 1/4 cup(s) flour, all-purpose
• 3/4 cup(s) flour, whole-wheat pastry
• 2 tablespoon wheat germ, toasted
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, or apple pie spice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup(s) sugar
• 1/3 cup(s) oil, cooking
• 1/4 cup(s) refrigerated or frozen egg product, thawed, or 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup(s) milk, fat-free
• 3 medium persimmons, fresh, pitted and chopped
• frozen light whipped dessert topping, thawed, (optional)

Streusel Topping

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 3 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon flour, all-purpose
• 2 tablespoon flour, whole-wheat pastry
• 2 tablespoon wheat germ, toasted
• 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, or apple pie spice
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Cant wait to indulge? Then click here for the directions at diabeticlivingonline.com.