Low calorie cakes

[Trinaj]

Any recipes for 'healthy' cakes?
So I can treat my health mad sister.

I guess cakes are not meant to be healthy.

Molly Cake is the healthiest cake I make. No fat, eggs, sugar or dairy in it.

That sounds yummy. Thanks
Could the dates be substituted with something like bannana/dried apricot?

weetabix cake or all bran cake Like the Molly Cake recipe MrsTweedy, will definitely give that a go too.

It's the dates that add the sweetness, so worth trying with apricots, not sure about bananas though.

is this entire thread not screaming "OXYMORON"?

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I think suzywong means 'low-calorie' and 'cakes' is a contradiction of terms!

Go for healthy rather than low calorie, with apples, unrefined sugar, wholemeal flour..

They sound disgusting don't they. But they're not.

They sound quite nice actually.
Thanks all.

Any low fat ginger cake recipes? - I LOVE ginger cake

These days I replace any butter/marg with 0% fat fromage frais. Seems to work!

If you use apricots use unsulfared ones as when you boil them the sulphered apricots dont give such a good flavour or "go" quite right. Whereas unsulphered apricots go into a dreamy toffee flavoury like state and taste devine.

unsulfared? What does it mean? Is there somewhere specific you buy them or can you just get them at sains/tescos etc?

Apricots when dryed are really dark brown in colour, the sulpher makes them bright orange - not really any need and changes the flavour. I have only ever seen sulphered apricots in Sains and tesco etc.

Holland and barret and Julian Greaves do unsulphered apricots.

There really isn't any need to inject bright orange colour into apricots IMO

No, I'd have to agree! Seems a bit pointless and revolting!

Smartarse - does that work with any recipe? I NEEEEED (ahem) gingercake now I've read this thread

Bump - I need cakey answers and that ever elusive low fat gingercake recipe (obsessed, moi?!)

Well, it's worked in all the cakes I've made - and I'm a bit of a manic baker, Dances! Off hand, I know I've tried it in lemon drizzle, chocolate muffins, oat and raisin muffins and a hazlenut and chocolate cake.

WOW! Ok, next time you get the urge to bake I want you to try it in a ginger cake for me and then report back (and post recipe) - what do you mean cheeky?!!

Can i just say that they molly cake on the waitrose site is gorgoeous. (and would be even better with custard)

Just made it! Hope it is yummy, don't like custard so am safe from that temptation