If Coffee is healthy, can cake be healthy too?

Coffee is in. One cup of coffee per day can halve your risk of Parkinson's disease, improve your mental focus, reduce kidney stones, help prevent tooth decay, fight cancer, and reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. What better to go with coffee, then coffee cake? Most coffee cakes are laden with sugar, fat, white flour, and no nutritional benefit. This cake is really no exception, except that I worked with the recipe to reduce the amount of sugar and fat, and add in some essential fatty acids. This could be made without sugar by substituting Splenda, but I like to try to stay away from artificial sweeteners.

Coffee Cake - slightly healthier. 1 cup unsweetened applesauce 1 cup white sugar 2 tsp melted butter 1 whole egg 3 egg substitutes: -- 1 Tbsp. Ground Flax seed in 3 Tbsp water (let stand 2 minutes) -- + 2 Tbsp soy flour and 4 tbsp of water 4 cups of unbleached flour 2 tsp baking soda 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 2 cups plain yogurt, low fat is fine 1 tbsp vanilla Topping: ½ cup brown sugar ½ cup white sugar 1 tbsp cinnamon 1 Tbsp. ground flaxseed (golden flax if you can get it) ½ cup chopped nuts, optional Mix topping ingredients and set aside. Mix applesauce, sugar and melted butter together. Add egg and egg substitutes, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix in yogurt and vanilla. BATTER WILL BE VERY THICK. Spread half the batter into two greased 8x12" pans. Sprinkle half of the topping between the two pans. Spread the rest of the batter on top, then sprinkle the rest of the topping over the top. Bake in a 350 oven for 30 minutes. A note about the batter - it is thick, so spreading it in the pan can be difficult. I find a slightly wet rubber spatula works best. * Note: when halving the recipe, use one real egg and one of the substitutes. The soy flour substitute for a single egg is 1 level tablespoon of soy flour plus 2 tablespoons of water. 1 tablespoon ground flax plus 3 tablespoons of water equals one egg. Per 1/8 of one cake: calories 257, fat 2.6gr, carbs 53.5gr, fibre 1.5gr, protein 5.1gr,

Comments

[kathleen]

If you want to make something healthier why not use WW flour for all or part of the recipe?