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'Healthy' Cake?

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  • 16-05-2014 8:09am
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    Rosy Posy
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    There is something of a craze among some of my friends atm for 'healthy' baking- cakes and biscuits made without sugar, dairy, gluten. Typically they include nuts and nut butters, bananas, raw cocoa nibs, eggs, chickpeas, small amounts of honey/maple syrup. Most of them are reasonably tasty but seem really calorie dense, although I suppose they would be more nutritious than their flour/butter/sugar/chocolate counterparts.

    So is there any such thing as healthy cake or are we just fooling ourselves and would we be as well eating the marginally tastier 'real' sweets?


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    Davei141
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    Nothing wrong with being calorie dense if they taste fine and have good ingredients. Of all the ingredients you listed they would contain quite a lot of nutrients. Some might argue against the honey/maple syrup but I definitely wouldn't worry about a bit of honey.


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    cletus van damme
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    Rosy Posy wrote: »
    There is something of a craze among some of my friends atm for 'healthy' baking- cakes and biscuits made without sugar, dairy, gluten. Typically they include nuts and nut butters, bananas, raw cocoa nibs, eggs, chickpeas, small amounts of honey/maple syrup. Most of them are reasonably tasty but seem really calorie dense, although I suppose they would be more nutritious than their flour/butter/sugar/chocolate counterparts.

    So is there any such thing as healthy cake or are we just fooling ourselves and would we be as well eating the marginally tastier 'real' sweets?

    I don't think anybody is fooling themselves.
    but that said eating a mountain of nutbutter cake will lash the calories into you. So managing that is key.

    I'd think the scare of flour/butter/sugar/chocolate cakes is hype.


    If you bake a cake from scratch and don't shovel it into you (I do shovel btw) , the negative effects will be minimal.
    buying mass produced cakes with additives is a different story imo


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    Chancer3001
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    Additives bad

    Sugar fine.

    (I disagree)


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    coffee_cake
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    Depends on the cake I suppose, and calories will probably still be high enough as you still need fat to bind the stuff. I think if they both taste nice I might go for the ones with better ingredients but either way they're still a treat and still need to remain occasional
    I use GF flour if I use flour anyway but it's not "healthier" imo, just stops a stomach ache :)


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