Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 8. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

daisiegg

Well, golden syrup cup cakes just came out of the oven!!!

I am going to 'be good' though and not ice them....they do NOT need a load of buttercream piped on the top to make them any naughtier, no matter how tempting!

missymoo81

Omg daisie, I dont want to ask but the devil in me is making me ask as I have copious amounts of flour and golden syrup.....

Can you please post the recipe.... No don't, ok do, please...

daisiegg

missymoo81 wrote: »

Omg daisie, I dont want to ask but the devil in me is making me ask as I have copious amounts of flour and golden syrup.....

Can you please post the recipe.... No don't, ok do, please...

It is a vegan recipe though....but it has come out absolutely YUMMY!! .......are you SURE you want the recipe? Only, if you're anything like me you will make the cakes and then eat cake and then weep on weigh-in day.......it is too late for me but I could still save you!!! :rotfl:

daisiegg

There you go....there is golden syrup in the actual cake batter and then once they come out of the oven you put a teaspoon of syrup on top of each one while they are still hot so it soaks in....they taste like a cupcake version of school dinner syrup sponge!

missymoo81

Omg....... I don't just want the recipe, I neeeeeeeed it!!!! my thoughts are if I make them tonight then I can scoff them all tonight, then try and recoup the calories over the next few days...... Not the best diet in the world but goodness they look yummy!!!!!

daisiegg

Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you! only problem is it's a vegan recipe so not sure how well it will work with dairy ingredients...

So:
200ml soya milk
4 tsp apple cider vinegar (or white wine vinegar or probably any vinegar)
200g self raising flour
160g caster sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
80ml light flavourless oil such as vegetable oil, but not olive oil because that has a strong taste
100ml golden syrup
1 tbsp vanilla

- whisk the soya milk with the vinegar and set aside for 10 mins to curdle (this acts as an egg replacement!)
- in a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients
- add the curdled soya milk mixture, the oil, the vanilla, and about 40ml of the golden syrup
- stir briefly until just mixed, and still a bit lumpy. Tap the bowl on the work surface to pop the bubbles and stop the raising agents working too quickly
- fill 12 cupcake cases
- bake in preheated oven at 160/325/gas 3 for 14 - 17 mins according to the recipe, but mine took 20 mins
- when they are done, take them out of the oven but not out of the tin yet. While still hot, drizzle one teaspoon of golden syrup onto the top of each cake. Leave in the tin for 10 more minutes before taking out to cool on a wire rack
- the recipe says to top with vanilla buttercream mixed with a little bit of golden syrup, then drizzle with mor syrup. I haven't done this!

.......I'm not sure how well the curdled soya milk thing will work with real milk, though.

I wonder if it would be best to just find a basic non-vegan sponge recipe that uses 200g of flour and 200g of sugar, and replace 40g of the sugar in the recipe with 40ml of golden syrup, as it seems that is what this recipe has done.

Or you could experiment and try curdling real milk - I think a 200g flour/sugar recipe would also use 200g butter and this recipe uses 80ml of oil which has to be a bit better for the diet than 200g butter!

Good luck - let me know how it goes!

ellie99

I don't know...I go off line for a couple of hours to eat and watch "Law and Order" and I miss the cakes coming out of the oven :rotfl:

I second missymoo...I NEED this recipe (we have a birthday next week so that could be my excuse )

missymoo, I think a few of us have been finding it hard, I know I considered giving up, but I will keep going.
Today I have had granola, wm toast, sweet and sour chicken and veg, then splurged on a lf yoghurt...I too get fed up with feeling hungry! but have managed to not snack today, even with all the cake talk.

ETA: Thank you daisiegg...soya milk is the only ingredient I don't have, if anyone tries it with normal milk let us know if it works please. I have another week before I need to make cake.

Molly41

daisiegg wrote: »

Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you! only problem is it's a vegan recipe so not sure how well it will work with dairy ingredients...

So:
200ml soya milk
4 tsp apple cider vinegar (or white wine vinegar or probably any vinegar)
200g self raising flour
160g caster sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
80ml light flavourless oil such as vegetable oil, but not olive oil because that has a strong taste
100ml golden syrup
1 tbsp vanilla

- whisk the soya milk with the vinegar and set aside for 10 mins to curdle (this acts as an egg replacement!)
- in a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients
- add the curdled soya milk mixture, the oil, the vanilla, and about 40ml of the golden syrup
- stir briefly until just mixed, and still a bit lumpy. Tap the bowl on the work surface to pop the bubbles and stop the raising agents working too quickly
- fill 12 cupcake cases
- bake in preheated oven at 160/325/gas 3 for 14 - 17 mins according to the recipe, but mine took 20 mins
- when they are done, take them out of the oven but not out of the tin yet. While still hot, drizzle one teaspoon of golden syrup onto the top of each cake. Leave in the tin for 10 more minutes before taking out to cool on a wire rack
- the recipe says to top with vanilla buttercream mixed with a little bit of golden syrup, then drizzle with mor syrup. I haven't done this!

.......I'm not sure how well the curdled soya milk thing will work with real milk, though.

I wonder if it would be best to just find a basic non-vegan sponge recipe that uses 200g of flour and 200g of sugar, and replace 40g of the sugar in the recipe with 40ml of golden syrup, as it seems that is what this recipe has done.

Or you could experiment and try curdling real milk - I think a 200g flour/sugar recipe would also use 200g butter and this recipe uses 80ml of oil which has to be a bit better for the diet than 200g butter!

Good luck - let me know how it goes!

Yummy...or use buttermilk ?

daisiegg

Molly41 wrote: »

Yummy...or use buttermilk ?

Yeah...I think that is what the soya milk is sort of emulating. But if you're going to do that you may as well just stick with what you know and use eggs anyway!

Another cake may have disappeared as I transferred them into a tin

missymoo81

Ooooh thanks so much daisie! Ill see what I can fathom together, although I seem to have a very grumpy baby who won't stop crying, trying desperately to shhhh her as she'll wake baby no. 2!! do diet might be saved afterall unless she falls asleep any time soon. Really fancy warm cupcakes now! Hmmm I'm wondering how many calories there may be in a cake, I've had 1300 today......