Birthday celebration: "cake" recipe? (Duplicate post)

If you can find a box of sugar free cake mix, take 3 tblspoons of the cake mix, mix with 2 tablespoons water and put in a coffee cup  and microwave for 1 min.

Thank you!  This is one of those "mug cake" ideas, right?  I forget about those.  They would be good for one serving for me, and then a regular recipe for my family.  I saw that Eggface has several protein-powder versions of such little cakes. My college-aged daughter came home her first year making stuff like that.  But usually hers was a mug brownie--not low fat nor low sugar--dorm life!

Yes it is. A old one that was passed around at WW forever. Just not the sugar free cake mix. But I bet they would still be good. You could do this and maybe do a little light cream cheese sweetened with splenda and a slice strawberry ontop.

You can take almost any cheesecake recipe, make it without a crust, or use a nut based crust... and just sub the sugar.  My traditional cheesecake recipe I have only has 2 Tbsp of flour for the whole thing, so very little carb...if you also substitute for the 1 cup of sugar. Don't leave the flour out, there is some scientific/baking chemistry reason it needs to be there to make it creamier or something...That is not to say it isn't high calorie, but for a special occasion, take a few bites and enjoy.

Thank you for the explanations of the cooking. I am very much an experimental cook, in that I change up recipes all the time--and often do not cook from a recipe at all.  If I have the guidelines/familiarity to know general things about a recipe category,about how things work,  then I usually feel comfortable messing around, and things usually turn out pretty well.  Cheesecake, though, is not something I have much experience with, so I felt I needed a real recipe.  Your explanation gives me some direction to experiment.  Really, I appreciate that so much.

Start a new family tradition not based on food ? Like releasing balloons? 

I know!  I was thinking that same thing as I wrote the original post.  We often buy balloons to have in the house, but I love the idea of releasing them.  (Although I suspect there might be some environmental reason not to.) 

Along that thought line, this is a tangent from the overall thread, but when my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, my sister and I bought 50 golden balloons.  We wrote a one-to-two-sentence summary for each year of their marriage, drawing from events like what family members were born, what house they lived in, what car they bought, important work/church/community events, important national or international news items for each year.  Then at the celebration, we divided the little summaries and balloons to the grandchildren, ages 4-26. The grandchildren took turns reading these out loud, then after reading each "year," walking over to give a balloon for their year to my parents.  It was not too long, and it was so lovely!  At the end, my parents had this giant bouquet of 50 balloons--such a great visual representation for everyone there of how many 50 really was.  Then, with those memories fresh in everyone's minds, my parents released the giant bouquet into the sky.

My wife who eats low carb as well found an awesome chcolate cake recipe on pintrest.  It uses Stevia and Coconut flour.  net carbs workout to around 4 per serving 

Ah, Pinterest!  It was something of an addiction for me when it first came out.  Do I dare revisit?  You are right, though, it really does have some great resources--thank you for that reminder.  I think the Coconut flour is a good idea, and I could Google that.