We’ve collected 15 Weight Watchers cake recipes to help you celebrate without compromising your health and wellness goals!
These Weight Watchers-friendly cakes make healthy swaps to keep points low while maintaining the delectable flavors we crave in a sweet treat. If your tooth is still sweet after enjoying these cakes, check out these Weight Watchers-friendly recipes for puff pastry desserts, banana desserts, and easy 5-minute desserts.
1. Weight Watchers Banana Cake
Our Weight Watchers Banana Cake recipe turns your overripe bananas into a soft and fluffy snacking cake topped with a buttery brown sugar icing that’s just sweet enough. Enjoy at breakfast or as an afternoon snack with a hot cup of tea or coffee. Nonfat Greek yogurt and unsweetened applesauce keep points and calories low. This easy 30-minute recipe makes 16 servings at 3 WW points a piece.
2. Weight Watchers Lemon Cake
This 3-ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake is ready in just 35 minutes and is sweet and moist enough to soothe any sweet tooth! This satisfying lemon cake is amazing on its own, and for 1 WW point per serving, we are here for it! If you have some extra points to spare in your budget, you can add the optional vanilla glaze, too. It’s perfect for brunch, parties, an afternoon pick-me-up, or dessert.
3. Weight Watchers Berry Cheesecake
Nothing sounds better in warm spring weather than enjoying a chilled Weight Watchers Berry Cheesecake! This subtly sweet, rich, and creamy cheesecake is made healthy using light cream cheese and fat-free Cool Whip as the base. Fresh berries bring the perfect combination of tartness and sweet berry goodness. This recipe requires just 10 minutes of prep time and each serving is worth 9 points.
4. Sticky Toffee Cakes with Sweet Guinness Glaze
These Sticky Toffee Cakes with Sweet Guinness Glaze are the perfect treat to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! The cake is inspired by England’s traditional sticky toffee pudding and is sweetened with dates and brown sugar. The sticky cakes are topped with a glaze made from Guinness beer, butter, coconut, and vanilla. The cakes are ready in under 30 minutes and come in at 6 points each.
Carrot Cake Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Nothing says spring—and Easter—like carrot cake! Traditional carrot cake, while it does contain a beloved vegetable, is loaded with sugar and fat. These Carrot Cake Bars use affordable and healthy ingredients like non-fat Greek yogurt and almond milk to keep points low while cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar lend it the carrot cake flavors we all love. This recipe makes 9 moist and delicious cake bars at just 5 WW points each.
6. Kodiak Cake Muffins with Sprinkles
These Kodiak Cake Muffins are the perfect combination of easy, healthy, and delicious. Muffins are a perfect way to make individual servings of cake so that you are less likely to overindulge. Unsweetened applesauce and skim milk help to lighten up this recipe, which makes 12 muffins at just 2 WW points each. The sprinkles are a fun and colorful addition that gives these cake muffins serious spring vibes!
7. Ultimate Skinny Pumpkin Weight Watchers Cake
You’ll never believe that this Skinny Pumpkin Weight Watchers Cake is a Zero-Point indulgence, but it is! Essentially a crustless pumpkin pie, this skinny cake uses minimal pantry staples (just pumpkin puree, eggs, Stevia, cinnamon, nutmeg, and starch) to make an affordable, nutrient-dense, sugar-free, and low-calorie treat that’s ready in just an hour. For convenience, flavor, texture, and taste, it simply can’t be beaten!
8. Healthy Peanut Butter Cheesecake
Is a cheesecake a cake? An age-old debate, I’m sure, but it does have cake in the name! And we just couldn’t omit one of our favorite Weight Watchers dessert recipes: the Healthy Peanut Butter Cheesecake. This nutty and creamy no-bake cheesecake is so easy to make: just mix the ingredients and let it set! This pie comes in at 11 points per serving, but it’s worth it!
9. Mint Orea Cheesecake
This Mint Orea Cheesecake is a real crowd pleaser, perfect for holiday parties or simply to indulge in an afternoon snack. Made with non-fat Greek Yogurt and fat-free Cool Whip, this lightened-up cheesecake is better for you than anything you’d buy at the store. A premade Oreo crust keeps this recipe super simple. The recipe serves 8 and is ready in an hour, with minimal prep.
10. Coconut Raspberry Chocolate Cake
Our delectable Coconut Raspberry Chocolate Cake is full of flavor and has a rich texture, thanks to plenty of raspberries, coconut, and gooey white chocolate chips melted in a decadent base of chocolate cake. The recipe uses a boxed cake mix to keep things simple. This cake is ready in under an hour and makes 12 servings.
11. Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake
This Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake by Cooking Made Healthy combines applesauce, pineapple chunks, strawberry condensed milk, and strawberry whipped topping for a fresh and fruity cake the whole family will love. It’s as beautiful as it is delicious! This strawberry shortcake poke cake is ready in under an hour—simply mix, pour, bake, and enjoy!
12. Skinny Chocolate Cake
You don’t want to sleep on this Skinny Chocolate Cake recipe from Together as Family! Starring chocolate cake mix (hello, easy recipe), non-fat Greek yogurt, and lite Cool Whip, this better-for-you chocolate cake has all the richness and flavor you want in a cake with only 200 calories per serving. This quick and easy recipe makes 12 servings.
13. Weight Watchers Upside Down Blueberry Cake
Keeping On Point’s Weight Watchers Upside Down Blueberry Cake uses Pillsbury’s sugar-free classic yellow cake mix, an alternative sweetener, and Sprite Zero in place of oil or eggs to keep things easy and healthy. This fruity and fun dessert requires just minutes of prep, is ready in 45 minutes, and serves 15!
14. Weight Watchers Pineapple Angel Food Cake
Enjoy this easy Weight Watchers Pineapple Angel Food Cake without any guilt! Each serving has fewer than 200 calories. Did we mention it’s just 2 ingredients?! Made with boxed angel food cake and canned pineapples, this cake is as easy as it comes. The fruity flavors mixed with angel food are perfect for Easter. The cake is moist, delicious, and low in calories, too.
15. Weight Watchers Coconut Sheet Cake
Did anybody else grow up eating coconut sheet cake for Easter? This Weight Watchers Coconut Sheet Cake brings you back to childhood but keeps things healthy, too. In this recipe from Slimming Eats, an oat-based coconut sponge cake is topped with sweet jam and shredded coconut for a delectable spring cake you won’t get enough of. This gluten-free cake is ready in just 45 minutes with minimal prep.
More Weight Watchers Dessert Recipes to Try
If you enjoyed these lightened-up Weight Watchers cake recipes, try your hand at some of our other trending Weight Watchers dessert recipes:
- Rich and fudgy Weight Watchers Brownies (2 points)
- Gluten-free Weight Watchers Friendly Apple Crumble made with oats (3 points)
- Single-serving Orea Cheesecake Cups (5 points)
Love the recipes but after maybe 10 you gave up on giving the weight watcher points on the recipes!