Very nutty cake/brownie recipe

[RockCrushesLizard]

I'm hoping someone good at cakes can help me come up with a very nutty cake recipe.

My DD has a couple of serious nut allergies, and her consultant says it's important to have the nuts she isn't allergic to in her diet regularly.
U is She's too young to eat whole nuts, and we need to get quite a lot into her: 25g each of eight different nuts.

I'm going to sprinkle on porridge, but I think a nutty cupcake/brownie will be the easiest way.

Most of the brownies etc I see have around 10g per portion - I'd love to be able to get it up closer to 50g, but don't know how to manage that and still have an edible end product!

Nuts:
Pistachio
Brazil
Macadamia
Pecan
Hazel
Almond
Sesame
Pine

Would she eat biscuits? I have a recipe with 10g of nuts per biscuit but I’m sure she could eat two or three.

Alternatively there are lots of cake recipes that use ground almonds instead of flour that might be worth looking at.

Would something like pecan pie work? You could use ground nuts in the pastry too.

Oh and you could make nut butter out of a lot of those nuts too - you could make a cake and put a dollop on top.

Biscuits would be great too, thank you!

My unicorn product would be something I can use a mixture of all the nuts in so that I don't have to make six or seven different versions

Ground nuts in pastry/as flour is a great call

Hopefully you can see this. You can vary the nuts. I use whatever is in the back of the cupboard.

This one, you can add as many nuts as you want, it will be delicious

https://www.nonnabox.com/zelten-recipe/

Not allergic but I mix ground almond in porridge / weetabix for my DD every morning. It adds a bit of protein, calories, and Vitamin E, could you whizz your variety up into that kind of powder and add to breakfast / yoghurt / smoothie bowls? I haven't tried it but there is a recipe for almond flour pancakes too

@karmakameleon
that's amazing! So nutty! Thank you!

@Ilovecashews
that also looks delicious, thank you

@itchyhand a very appropriate name for an allergy thread 😂
I think that will be part of the strategy too, thank you

We make chocolate nut cereal bars - porridge oats, Rice Krispies, chopped nuts and dried fruit bound together with melted chocolate, nut butter and honey. We use lots of different types of nuts in this.

I had another thought. Would baklava work? Lots of chopped nuts and if you made your own you could easily vary the nuts and try different combinations.

These are all great ideas, home made cereal bars and baklava are excellent calls

Pancakes made with ground almonds? I make these as they are GF and low carb but could swap in sugar/maple syrup if sugar not an issue, could top with maple syrup and another nut butter? lowcarbyum.com/fluffy-almond-meal-pancakes/

Are they not concerned about cross contamination?

I asked that question because my son has a peanut allergy, but it isn't allergic to certain other nuts. I just assumed that factories packaging nuts would work with all kinds of nuts.

this is called a cake but it comes out more like a brownie in texture. It’s made entirely of ground hazelnut, no flour at all (I buy chopped hazelnuts and whizz into a flour/paste which also works). You can sub in some ground almonds if you want. I suspect pretty much nut flour would work actually.

There’s lots of almond flour & fruit based cake recipes, orange and almond is a classic, apple and almond is good too.

I also found this nut roast recipe worth a try?

Other savoury ideas:
sprinkle toasted pine nuts on tomato pasta
tahini (sesame) is good slightly thinned and drizzled on veg, or used thick as a dip like hummus (add garlic if wanted)
pistachio butter is available from italian delis and is lovely on toast (quite sugary though)

Last idea - chopped nuts are good added to banana bread. Any sort from your list would work except pine and sesame. Admittedly won’t hit the 50g that way.

I'm also here to say nut roast! I don't use a recipe, just put whatever I have in, but basically it's brown some onions, then mix in chopped nuts (any kind), breadcrumbs, some tomatoes, a spoonful of marmite and an egg to bind it, whatever herbs you like, then bake.

Also: sweet muffins are easy to make and you could use a nut oil (or blend of nut oils) as the fat, plus add chopped nuts.

I can't believe I didn't think of nut roast!

That cake looks great too.

Thank you all so much for your ideas - Mumsnet remains the place to go for very specific queries that search engines can't cope with

Nutty biscuits: 8g per biscuit and genuinely yummy, and not so sugary that you'd be concerned about them as a daily food!

@determinedtomakethiswork

The problem as I understand it is that if you have one nut allergy, you're highly likely to develop another, and the best way to mitigate the risk is to consume them regularly.

So yes, there may be a cross contamination risk, but that risk is lower overall than the risk of you have multiple nut allergies to contend with. (I'll be blitzing whole nuts in my food processor, rather than using pre-ground for the cross contamination on factory lines reason)

She's also doing oral immunotherapy to peanut, which reduces the risk from accidental exposure to small traces - things like chocolate, biscuits etc. An allergic adult friend used to regularly react to Kinnerton chocolate, and once had a reaction in a cafe where someone hadn't throughly wiped a table. So the fewer nuts that she has a risk for, the better.

Homemade granola can work really well too. Nut butters and pistachio paste are very versatile, plus ground nuts in place of flour.

Ooh, the biscuits look great. I quite often have half used packets of nuts lying aorund so will keep that recipe somewhere!