Raspberry and Walnut Cake
Who loves eating cake? I sure do!
Despite not buying into this ‘no sugar’ thing, I’ve been experimenting making cakes using other sweeteners in place of, or to cut down the amount of sugar used
Dates and banana are two of my favourite ways of reducing sugar and they work surprisingly well in this raspberry and walnut cake
Give it a go and let me know what you think!
Raspberry and Walnut Cake
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Author: Caroline Trickey from Healthy Home Cafe
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 6 large (110 grams pitted) Medjool dates, pitted
- ⅓ cup boiling water
- 1½ cups plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons psyllium husks
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- ¾ cup walnuts
- 1½ tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 over-ripe banana, or ⅓ cup apple or pear puree
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Pour boiling water over dates. Cover and set aside.
- Heat the oven to 170°C and line a 20 cm round baking tin with nonstick baking paper.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, psyllium husks and cinnamon into a large bowl.
- Stir in the raspberries, ½ cup of the walnuts and the sugar. Set aside
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, then add the banana, milk, oil and softened dates
- Pour wet mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
- Top the mixture with the remaining walnuts.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Allow to cool slightly before cutting
What other flour could I use.
Hi Leanne – apologies for taking so long to reply. If its not too late to answer you, first of all are you avoiding wheat? As you could use buckwheat flour if so.
I used plain white soft (also called cake) flour as it made the cake lighter than using wholemeal flour, but added psyllium husks to increase the fibre content.
If you’re not avoiding wheat, you could use 1/2 white and 1/2 wholemeal plain or cake flour.
Does that help? I hope so, but let me know if you would like more options 🙂