nutritious junk

I love baked goods.  I’m what you’d call a baked good whore.  I’ll do anything for a cookie, cake, donuts, brownie…well maybe not anything.  I refuse to paint my body neon pink and jump into an ice-cold vat of Jell-O!  Well, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way we can talk more about my love for sweet, wheaty treats.  Cookies and brownies are pretty easy for me; I’ll eat any of them.  But cake is harder.  I’m very picky about my icing to cake ratio and I’ve never really found one that suites me.  Yes, I realize that all the foods I’ve just listed, in their natural states, are not healthy or nutritious any which way you cut them.  But they can be made healthy, and for those times that there’s no time to cook or you must have sweets asap they can be bought quickly.  This is the point where I found cake in the frozen food isle.  Which, I don’t know if this is just me, but it always strikes me as a very weird place for cake and pie to be.  Mrs. Smiths is one purveyor of frozen round sweets.  They’re usually very high is calories, fat…everything.  But boy are they good.  Mrs. Smiths has decided to jump on the 100 calorie bandwagon with their new Heavenly 100 line.  The line includes 4 different kinds of mousses, an apple crisp and the one I tried; chocolate cake.  I was initially very excited about the size since each cake slice came in a container the same size as the containers you get apple pie in at Burger King.  You know, the ones that look like little triangles and you rip off each side.  Well, after opening the container I was sorta sad.  The slice took up about ¼ of the container.  That just seems like false advertising.  100 calories, 4g of fat, 2g of fiber, 1g of protein, 15g of carbs and 6g of sugar.  The whipped topping was good, just sweet enough and had a consistency more like whipped frosting.  But the cake, it was dry and crumbly.  It was only slightly chocolaty and the taste was so subdued that I had to really focus to get past the taste of the whipped cream.  I thought maybe heating it up for a quick sec would help, since that is an option on the box.  That just made the whipped topping melt all over the now mushy cake.  I’d say if you want cake, just go for a real thing and work on portion control.  And if you’re having problems with portion control try one another 100 calorie portioned item.