Make cakes and tea breads from the ground nuts or nut flours of your choice.
What comes to mind when you think of a cake made entirely from nuts? Luxury? Decadence? Elegance? Not on your low carb lifestyle? Not necessarily. Nuts are good food -- low carb enough for low carbers, and full of the good fats that experts are now recommending for everyone. There is little doubt that these natural repositories of vitamins and minerals are far more flavorful than grain. On the other hand, baking with nuts is quite a challenge, even for professional bakers, and that's without the challenge of leaving out other typical bulk cake ingredients -- like sugar.
That's where Wise CHOice Cake-ability Baking Aid comes in.
Expert Foods has found a way to turn ground nuts and nut flours into delicious, moist baked goods that taste and feel the way cakes and muffins should, but rarely do. Cakes with character, tea breads with texture, muffins with substance -- real foods that satisfy rather than send your blood sugar reeling. And you make these sumptuous and scrumptious cakes and tea breads without sugar, starch, grain, soy, dairy or odd chemicals -- with just 2g net effect carbs per 1 1/2-ounce serving for the basic recipe.
With Wise CHOice Cake-ability Baking Aid, you create baked goods of your choice, with the ingredients of your choice. Your "from scratch" creations will benefit from the fresh flavors, and you will benefit from using the ingredients right for your lifestyle. If you can't find ground nuts or nut flour, it's not hard to grind your own nuts in a food processor. Just combine them with the Baking Aid and other dry ingredients and grind away -- don't worry if it comes out a bit "damp" -- it just makes combining it with the liquid ingredients easier. It's the fineness of the nuts that affects whether you get a tender "fancy" cake (very finely-ground nuts) or a heavy muffin (coarsely-ground -- or add chopped nuts) or anything in between.
Directions:
- Mix (or grind) together, breaking up any lumps: � cup Baking Aid (55g), � lb ground nuts (225g or about 2 cups), sweetener equal to � cup sugar (100g) (or add liquid sweetener in Step 3), pinch salt, dry flavoring ingredients.
- Line baking pan with parchment or foil, or grease and "flour" with mixture from Step 1.
- Combine liquids: 1 cup water (240ml), 3 eggs, 3 Tbs oil (45ml), other liquid ingredients.
- Stir liquid and dry ingredients together until thoroughly wet -- no need to beat!
- Immediately pour into prepared pan and microwave (around 7 minutes) or bake at 350�F (175�C) -- loaf pans 40-50 minutes, round pans 25-35 minutes, cupcakes/muffins 15-25 minutes -- or until center springs back.
Chocolate Cake: grind nuts very fine. Add � cup cocoa, plus an extra 1/4 cup sweetener, 2 Tbs water, 4 Tbs oil, 2 tsp vanilla. (For a Torte, skip the extra water and sweetener.) Bake in round pan, preferably springform.
Banana Bread: use loaf pan; only 2 eggs; cinnamon to taste; swirl in 1 oz. (30g or 1/4 cup) chopped walnuts and top with 3 oz thinly-sliced banana (1 small or � large).
Muffins: use 2 eggs; coarse nut flour or add chopped nuts. Makes 12-16 regular-sized muffins, or six oversize.
More ideas: replace water with coffee, etc. Add extracts, syrups, fruit (diced or pulp), other nuts, seeds, coconut, and/or spices to taste -- and invent away!
Wise CHOice Cake-ability Baking Aid is available in a 2-ounce package -- enough for one 1 1/2 pound cakes or tea breads -- each recipe requires a half cup -- plus extra for "flouring" the pan if you don't use baker's parchment.
Nutrition Facts
- Serving Size 1/2 Tablespoon (3.5g)
- Servings per container 16 (enough for one cake/loaves with 16 servings)
- Calories 12
- Fat Calories 0
- Total Fat 0g
- Cholesterol 0mg
- Sodium 80mg
- Total Carbohydrates 1.3g
- Fiber 1.1g
- Protein 2g
The effective carb count is 0.2g per serving.
INGREDIENTS: egg whites, vegetable gum blend (carob, guar, acacia, xanthan), baking soda, ascorbic acid
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