Wholemeal fairy cakes - is it possible?

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Has anyone tried baking fairy cakes with Wholemeal flour? did it work?

Dunno but youv'e made me hungry!

I think it defeats the object somewhat.

It's about degrees of guilt!
I was going to try it with Xylitol and coconut oil, rather than butter and sugar but it sounds pretty foul and I can't imagine it rising. DD and I will give it a go anyway and see what happens.

no, but i've done rock cakes w/it. and raisins.

of course, dd1 prefers the full butter, white flour fairy cake w/royal icing.

can't help it, i'm just now making her some chewy oatmeal raisin cookies and have already made the ice lollies featured in this month's Good Food mag (but i did mine w/strawberries and OJ from concentrate).

also did a banana/nectarine smoothie.

ooooo, so yummy. i'm on a roll! homemade rusks for dd2 as soon as the butter softens up a bit.

If you want to make healthy cakes, I think it's better to make banana, courgette or carrot ones. I've seen an apple cake recipe that uses wholemeal flour. There are lots of those sorts of cakes that use liquid oils rather than butter (not any real difference between butter and coconut oil, I don't think, both are solid fats).

Please don't use xylitol, if that's a fake sugar, that stuff is scary.

God I'm starving now!
Like the sound of chewy oatmeal cookies - do you have the recipe? apple cake good to.
Xylitol is a natural sugar not a fake one, ironically it's said to prevent tooth decay. Wouldn't use the evil that is Aspartame .

Hmm, interesting re: xylitol. I think I had ice cream with it in, once, and wasn't impressed. Worth looking for, though, maybe.

Here is my oatmeal cookie recipe. Good site, too, generally, particularly the open reviews of recipes. The apple cake recipe is a photocopy from a neighbour, and I can't type it in right now (should be doing NCT admin stuff, gah).

I use wholemeal flour & they are fine. Try using half wholemeal & half refined to begin with.

Nothing wrong with a bit of butter - better than coconut oil. If you really don't want butter then use sunflower oil. Can I come over ?!

It may be possible, but is it desirable?

LOL at the thread title. It has all the makings of a classic mumsnet row.

I am with caligula on this one

Why bother?

eat some wholemeal bread and have a treat of a nice fairy cake.

Or you could make a wholemeal one and use it as a door stop!

It worked! they all went last night so must have been OK even DH ate some - he who ranks wholemeal up there with the great Lentil eating unwashed.

I have a lovely wholemeal sugar free banana cake recipe. It really is nice and doesn't taste worthy.

No fair! you can't tempt me like that and not share

Franny - can I have your banana cake recipie please? Dh made banana cake today but it was the full fat version and we are looking for an alternative.

Ah, married life, eh? I'm sure we used to go and have sex

NB didn't have sex outside though. I digress..... ahem.

ooh yes certainly, sorry, was distracted by bickering on another thread

4 oz self raising wholemeal flour
half tsp mixed spice
2 oz butter
3 oz raisins
8 oz banana
1 egg, beaten

Preheat oven to 180 / gm 4. Mix flour and spice, rub in butter and stir in raisins. In a separate bowl, mash the banana and egg. Stir into the flour mixture and put into a well-greased tin (fills a small loaf tin I think or I usually double up the quantities and put it in an 8" circular cake tin). Turn oven down to GM 3 / 160 C and cook on the middle shelf for 1 hour or until cooked.

I usually cover it with a mixture of philadelphia cream cheese and fruit spread (about 2 parts cream cheese to one part fruit spread / jam). Blend them together in the liquidiser.

hey f&z..thought id say for sorry for making you feel sad and attacked on here rather than the other one...sorry.

Mmmm. That sounds good. I'll give it a try!

Thanks for that beansontoast, I felt much better once I knew you weren't some nasty namechanger out to get me

I would like to think your impressions of me were wrong, but sometimes it's good to hear the unvarnished truth about how you come across.

The cake is really good, I promise.

Thanks Franny - and good luck with the website.

Thanks, F&Z. I've got some nanas to use up and I've already done smoothie ice lollies.

Might whizz the cream cheese w/fruit spread w/the hand blender. DD1 would fall for that being icing.

It fools adults, too, expat. I know the fruit spread or sugar has got plenty of fruit type sugar in it, but I reckon it's got to be balanced out by the wholemeal flour and so on, and the cream cheese adds a lot of nutrition. When ds was having a seriously picky phase I used to let him eat this for breakfast. It's good fuel food as well as yummy.

Oh meant to say it's from the book Optimum Nutrition by Lucy Burney, although I made the icing up myself.

It's a brill way of getting more fruit in them, tho, and the icing like consistency - can't beat it! Wish I'd thought of that!

I get fruit spreads from a trusted seller at the farmer's market - where we also go to pick berries in summer - and am always thinking up new ways to get DD1 some fruit . . .

i rehydrated some dried mango and blended with apple juice for ice lollies yesterday (v nice). Now i'm thinking that the mango blended with cream cheese would go very nicely with F&Z's banana loaf - or am i just deluded and mango obsessed at the moment?

Ooh I think it would be lovely

I never thought of doing dried fruit in the icing, I bet apricots would be good too (not as nice as mango though)