3-Ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake
This guilt-free 3-Ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake is the perfect sweet indulgence to enjoy without derailing your daily points count!
Perfectly soft and moist 3-Ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake is the world’s easiest dessert! Ready in just 35 minutes, this sweet cake is perfect for satisfying any sweet tooth, with or without the optional vanilla glaze!
MY FAVORITE NO GUILT DESSERT
Lemon pound cake is one of my go-to sweet treats so I love that I can satisfy those craving with this Weight Watchers Lemon Cake! One slice of this amazing lemon cake is only one Weight Watchers point and, if you have a couple of points to spare, you can drizzle on a delicious vanilla glaze!
You can satisfy more of your sweet cravings with amazing Weight Watchers Apple Cobbler and Weight Watchers Berry Crisp For One.
OTHER RECIPES TO SERVE WITH LEMON CAKE
- Gluten Free Healthy Blueberry Muffins – Sweet cravings can hit at breakfast time or at dinner, but these muffins are delicious all day long!
- Vanilla Almond Overnight Oats – These oats are a great way to start the day and they’re great for busy mornings.
INGREDIENTS
Cake Mix: The main ingredient in 3-Ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake is a box of lemon cake mix.
Yogurt: You’ll need a 5.3 ounce lemon greek yogurt and a cup of water to round out this lemon cake recipe.
Vanilla Glaze: This simple glaze combines powdered sugar, milk, lemon juice, and vanilla extract.
HOW TO MAKE 3-INGREDIENT LEMON CAKE
STEP ONE: Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees F. Next, grab a large mixing bowl and combine the lemon cake mix, lemon Greek yogurt, and water.
STEP TWO: Mix the ingredients until they are smooth and pour the batter into a greased bundt pan.
STEP THREE: Bake the Weight Watchers Lemon Cake for 30 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test. Remove the cake and let it cool on a wire rack before turning it over and removing it from the pan.
STEP FOUR: To make the optional glaze, whisk all of the ingredients together in a small mixing bowl. Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake. Cut the cake into slices and enjoy!
TIPS FOR SUCCESS
- This cake will make 12 servings, each of which is 1 Weight Watchers point.
- You can also use other cake mix flavors in this recipe, like strawberry or chocolate! Just don’t forget to use a complimentary greek yogurt flavor.
HOW TO STORE WEIGHT WATCHERS LEMON CAKE
This delicious lemon cake will stay fresh for up to three days when kept in airtight container at room temperature. You may also store it in the fridge in an airtight container for up to five days. This cake is also perfect for freezing to have hand for future cravings!
HOW TO FREEZE 3-INGREDIENT LEMON CAKE
I prefer to freeze individual slices of this greek yogurt lemon cake so I can enjoy them a slice at a time when I want a quick and easy dessert. Make sure that the cake is completely cooled down before wrapping it up in plastic wrap and freezing it. Individually wrapped lemon cake slices will last in the freezer for about two months.
OTHER GUILT FREE RECIPES
- Low Carb Cheesy Bacon Cauliflower Chowder
- Skinny Tropical Pineapple Smoothie
- Skinny Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Weight Watchers Taco Soup
- Low Carb Cheesecake Bites
- Keto Chocolate Cupcakes
3-Ingredient Weight Watchers Lemon Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces lemon cake mix (1 box)
- 5.3 ounces lemon Greek yogurt
- 1 cup water
Vanilla Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon vanila extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the inside of a bundt pan. Set aside.
- Mix all of the ingredients together in a mixing bowl until smooth. Pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and let cool to room temperature on a wire rack. Then turn the cake out onto a serving plate. Cut into 12 slices.
- To make the glaze: Whisk all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Drizzle over the cooled cake.
Notes
- WW 1 point per slice (without icing) based on 12 slices
- Nutritional information is for the cake only. The glaze is not included.
Easy to make, low in calories and stayed moist to the very end!
I LOVE LEMON CAKE!!! This recipe DID NOT disappoint!! Delicious and easy too!!!
As a lemon lover, I was excited to try this recipe. It was the best I’ve tried in a long time. I didn’t have a Bundt pan so made cupcakes and they were wonderful!! Can’t wait to make again!
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I have made this several times, but in cupcakes. I usually make 12 but you can easily make them in smaller portions. Mini pans make great bite sized treats!
As for the points … it is cake!! This recipe was also found on WW with smaller portions. Try the pumpkin ones with 2 ingredients!
Yes it says 1 pt, but it is still individual responsibility to check first. Stop getting angry at the post, and calculate first. One day with a mistake is not the end of the road.
This is still a much healthier option than a reg cake. Use 0% Greek yogurt. I prefer vanilla and add lemon juice to the water. And then the left over yogurt can be used in place of glaze or whip cream, add berries and yum!
Enjoy!
The cake was delicious. That being said. It scans as 8 points for 1/12 of a slice. Not including the icing. Which I used swerve confectioners sugar. O calorie. Mixed it with lemon juice and drizzled. It does have (Erythritol)
I just made this. It came out looking great but the texture was different on the inside. It wasn’t like cake. Maybe I did something wrong but not sure what it could be.
I’ve learned never eat it until you scan it!
I made this mistake once. You use the calculator to figure out the points for the mix, but then that’s what you put into the recipe, but you are making the whole box, not one serving so you have to first multiply the points you get with the food calculator for one serving (10 for the Duncan Hines in the link) by the amount of servings that are actually in the box (10). So it’s 100 points just for the mix, even if you add all 0 point ingredients to it…Greek yogurt, sugar free apple sauce…. you can’t divide 100 by 12 and get 1!!
Like most people have said, with the current WW system, it’s actually 8 points per slice. With that being said, I’ve been doing WW for 15 years, and you pretty much can’t eat cake for only 8 points, so this is still a great option if you can save up points for dessert. Regular cake is going to cost you over double that (unless you always eat fake sugar, and fat free everything).
This cake is awesome! I am not much for lemon cake but this was the exception! And only 3 ingredients for the cake… that is amazing! 1 point, 8 points.. I don’t care. Still a great, simple recipe.
3 stars b/c it is delicious, but not 1 point. Hungry Girl has very similar recipes (1 cup non fat greek yogurt, box of cake mix, and 1 c of water) that track at 7 points each, with each box making 12 servings. Your incorrect calculations caused me to blow my points for the day. It was too good to be true.
Be careful when calculating this cake. Although it’s still a great option for a sweet treat on WW.
When you scan the cake in the app it pulls it as being 43g of mix when it’s actually 432g. That’s probably why the post says it’s 1 point. I made it with no glaze and cut it in 16 pieces to make each piece 6 points. I still think it’s worth it and am SO happy I found this recipe because the cake is AMAZING!
I’m honestly infuriated. Someone should require this recipe poster to take their statements about it being a 1 point per slice weight watcher cake.
She clearly did not enter the correct amount of cake mix to the recipe builder.
My husband and I consumed 2 slices of this a night thinking it was 4 points for 2 slices. I went to build the recipe and it was 8 points per slice!!!
This woman is sabotaging people’s diets.
This NOT a 1 point recipe! When you scan the box it inputs one serving, 1/10 of a box, 43 grams. If you then divide that into 12 servings (1/120th of a box) then yeah, it’s one point. The whole box is 97 points!
WARNING: This is NOT 1 point per serving. I put this in the Weight Watcher app, and the lowest I could get it was 8 points per serving. The only way to get it to calculate it at 1 point per serving is to calculate 1 serving of cake mix instead of the whole box. Pillsbury supreme lemon dry cake mix is 82 points for the whole box. It’s 8 points for 1 serving! I think this was probably an honest mistake when calculating points, but wanted to warn others in case they are thinking this is a 1 point cake recipe!!
Although the cake is moist and delicious, as of 1/19/23, one piece is 8 points. (more with the glaze). Not a good choice when you only have 23 points a day!
Did you use the Weight Watchers cake mix? I think that makes the points low.
I’m confused. The carbohydrate and sugar numbers per serving of this cake are far great than one point. Can you please explain? Thanks.
Did you calculate the info in WW? I did, and it shows that each slice is 8 points!!!
How does this recipe calculate to 1 point? The calories, fat, sugar, and carbs are way too high for that.
OMG, so I tried this recipe for my Hubby’s birthday to make a healthier cake as we are on WW. It was a HUGE hit, everyone LOVED it and now they want me to make everyone’s cakes this way lol WW aside, this cake is delicious!!!! No one will even be able to tell this a healthier recipe. And the recipe is so versatile!! Thank you for posting this!
It’s not a healthy option, please calculate the points, I did and find that that cake alone is 6 points!!
I put the recipe in my WW app and 1/12th cake came to 1 point. I am going to try pineapple next. Everyone loved this cake! Thank you for posting!
The recipe is delicious! However, the points are WRONG—6 points per serving. Unfortunately, I didn’t calculate until after I ate the cake. Not great for weightloss!
Did not turn out. Doughy, sticky uncooked after 40 minutes. I have made it 3 times. Same results. Disappointed.