Be brave. Try out a truly no sugar cake.
Other than the fact that refined sugar is basically poison to humans, a cup of sugar has 773 calories!!!! Are you kidding? That's half of a person's daily caloric intake!! And most cake recipes call for 1.5 - 2 cups of sugar! Sure, you won't eat the whole cake in one day. But you will eat one slice, and then another. In an 8-slice cake, 2 slices would equal a quarter of your entire day's caloric intake - consumed in sugar alone!!! And we aren't even taking into account the calories in that cake from flour, eggs, oil and fruit. No wonder we're a nation of overweight people.
Artificial sweeteners did help me on my journey to lose 70lbs, but they have unknown long term side-effects so I stopped taking them also. Over the years I've realized that sugar is a privilege (not a right) and the tongue is very quick to acclimatize to low sugary-tasting foods.
Try this cake. It's good. It's sweet. It won't put you in a sugary diabetic coma. It'll just make you say, "Hmm... that's definitely a cake, pretty pineapple-y, pretty sweet, a little more like moist and delicately sweet pineapple-bread than pineapple-cake, but I'm feeling pretty satisfied!"
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 can crushed pineapple and it's juce
1 cup milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
scant pinch of salt
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 deg.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients and mix in the with the dry.
4. Grease a 9 inch baking pan. Pour cake batter in it.
5. Bake for 40 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Serve with some natural sauce... like apple sauce or evaporated milk or soak the cake in natural pineapple juice. Fruits are INCREDIBLY sweet naturally.
Enjoy!
Other than the fact that refined sugar is basically poison to humans, a cup of sugar has 773 calories!!!! Are you kidding? That's half of a person's daily caloric intake!! And most cake recipes call for 1.5 - 2 cups of sugar! Sure, you won't eat the whole cake in one day. But you will eat one slice, and then another. In an 8-slice cake, 2 slices would equal a quarter of your entire day's caloric intake - consumed in sugar alone!!! And we aren't even taking into account the calories in that cake from flour, eggs, oil and fruit. No wonder we're a nation of overweight people.
Artificial sweeteners did help me on my journey to lose 70lbs, but they have unknown long term side-effects so I stopped taking them also. Over the years I've realized that sugar is a privilege (not a right) and the tongue is very quick to acclimatize to low sugary-tasting foods.
Try this cake. It's good. It's sweet. It won't put you in a sugary diabetic coma. It'll just make you say, "Hmm... that's definitely a cake, pretty pineapple-y, pretty sweet, a little more like moist and delicately sweet pineapple-bread than pineapple-cake, but I'm feeling pretty satisfied!"
Ingredients:
1.5 cups unbleached plain flour
1 egg
1 can crushed pineapple and it's juce
1 cup milk
0.25 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder or essence
scant pinch of salt
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 deg.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients thoroughly with a whisk.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients and mix in the with the dry.
4. Grease a 9 inch baking pan. Pour cake batter in it.
5. Bake for 40 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Serve with some natural sauce... like apple sauce or evaporated milk or soak the cake in natural pineapple juice. Fruits are INCREDIBLY sweet naturally.
Enjoy!
Hi, I just came across your blog and looked through quite a few of your posts. I like your cooking style a lot and can relate to a lot of your posts. Sad that you stopped posting :( I'll be making your Bengali dal tonight.
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