Fat free cake recipe req.

Whitefiver

Folks,

Our local garden centre has quite a good restaurant attached, (you should see the queues for Sunday lunch). We frequently go for a coffee and piece of cake on a Sunday morning, and my cake of choice is a slice of their "Fat Free Fruit Cake". It is popular, and if we are late on parade, then it has sold out!

We were late today, and I grumpily had to make do with a piece of carrot and honey cake .

I have searched on Google, searched our own recipe books, and also here (sorry if someone takes me straight to it - I have tried) to no avail. Please can anyone suggest a recipe.

As a guide, there appears to be plenty of hazelnuts, brazil nuts, apricots and other dried fruit, and very little "cake" if you know what I mean. It is quite dense, and occasionally stays a bit too long in the oven too, which makes the fruit on top lovely and chewy.

All suggestions welcomed.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

White.

headcovers

As suspected a quick search on Google using "fat Free Fruit Cake" produces the following:

http://www.recipezaar.com/67129

http://www.monksofadoration.org/hn/healnt13.html

http://www.geocities.com/jason_andre/Recipes/fruitcake.htm

http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/chilco/cookery.htm

....and the list goes on. I suspect your searching skills just need improving a bit

Whitefiver

Wouldn't disagree - indeed these are fat free fruit cakes, but nowhere near what I was describing, with nuts, apricots and so on. Also there seemed to be a lot of flour for something with "very little cake".

As I said, I had been looking!

Thanks anyway,

Regards,

White.

headcovers

Why don't you ask the person at the counter of the Garden Centre what the recipe is?

Simple, but it might work.

blue-kat

how about making up a cake mix with lots of extra fruit and just leave the fat out and see how it cooks?

based on bero easy fruit recipe (below)I'd try substiting ground almonds for half of the flour for nice crumbly texture, ( and omitting the rest!)
the natural fat in the almonds will provide some fat for the cake.
if you soak the fruit before cooking it will help make the cake moist.

hth !

have fun experiementing !
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Katya

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pol

Is it 'cakey' if you know what I mean? With flour and eggs.

I've made a fat free cake from stale cake and biscuits mixed with apricots, dates and nuts and held together with golden syrup or egg and bit of flour and baked for a short while to caramelise it a bit on top. (No recipe as such though, I just use leftovers)

pol

Whitefiver

pol wrote:

Is it 'cakey' if you know what I mean? With flour and eggs.

I've made a fat free cake from stale cake and biscuits mixed with apricots, dates and nuts and held together with golden syrup or egg and bit of flour and baked for a short while to caramelise it a bit on top. (No recipe as such though, I just use leftovers)

pol

That sounds exactly like it - I shall just have to experiment, I guess!

Many thanks,

Regards,

White

:beer:

janb5

I agree with Headcovers. I cam across a fab recipe for chocolate cake by begging(well I`m not proud!) for the recipe and they did send it to me! Well worth the hassle of experimenting with various ingredients!

play2day

Is it 'cakey' if you know what I mean? With flour and eggs.

I've made a fat free cake from stale cake and biscuits mixed with apricots, dates and nuts and held together with golden syrup or egg and bit of flour and baked for a short while to caramelise it a bit on top. (No recipe as such though, I just use leftovers)

pol

I'm a novice cook so excuse me if this is a stupid question but won't the stale cake and biscuits already contain fat?
I ask because a truely fat free cake would be a wonderful addition to my recipe collection so I will watch this thread with interest.

aquilaM

Hi
I think what you are looking for sounds like a cake mix i got from this site. It is full of fruit with not much cake, and is fat free. It also freezes well.

6oz brown flour
3tsp baking powder
2oz ground almonds
2tsp mixed spice
1lb dried fruit
4oz dates
4oz apricots
grated rind
1/2 pt water
2tbsp orange juice

Soak the fruit over night in liquid
Mix in dry ingredients
Bake 160 oC for 1 1/2 hours

I have added nuts to the mix instead of rind, and of course you can add any fruit within the 1 lb. The result is lovely and moist.

The post was called "Vegan Christmas Cake" so you might be able to find the origional thread.
(And to whoever origionally posted it we had it for Christmas and it was lovely)

Ax
PS you can also soak the fruit in brandy instead of OJ. Enjoy

pol

Not a stupid question at all. If you don't ask, you'll never find out!.

There would be fat in the stale cake and biscuits, but it is not cooked with any other fat.

Sometimes I soak the cake and biscuits in cold tea to make it extra squidgy, and sometimes add melted chocolate wafers/biscuits, so it is not low-calorie either. (Although I subscribe to the notion that calories are afraid of heights and I keep my choccie on the top shelf, as all the calories then run out to escape!)

pol