Nut based cake

[MinnieMountain]

I’m looking for recipes for a nut based cake to make for MIL’s birthday.

She’s type 2 diabetic so she avoids carbs and sugar, although a bit is fine for a treat.

I made this Sophie Grigson recipe recently which was good.

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Have a look at Oh She Glows recipes. My sister makes a gorgeous chocolate torte that has a hazelnut and oat base. Its delicious and almost carb free.

My sis in law makes carrot cake using healthy ingredients. I haven't got the recipe but it's made from almond flour, olive oil, erythritol and healthy nuts.

That torta looks amazing @karmakameleon.

I looks like chocolate will be the way to go

It was pretty good but can’t pretend it was healthy

This is hazelnut based www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_and_hazelnut_38207

That looks delicious too @Fivemoreminutes1.

Looks like I’ll have to try both

this Persiana cake is gorgeous. I always reduce the sugar in cakes, I'm not diabetic find many too sweets. I think I halved the sugar in this one.

Nigella's boiled orange cake is also lovely. It takes a couple of hours to boil the oranges but that's ok if you're not going anywhere! I've substituted the clementines for other little oranges/fewer larger. I think you definitely need a food processor for this.

Nigella's lemon polenta cake is delicious, its almond based no flour, but it does have sugar

Update: I can confirm that the Sophie Grigson one is indeed delicious (crumbs only. MIL hasn’t tried it yet).

Glad you liked it