Foodie Friday – Delicious Oat and Apple Cake

It’s Friday, so let’s talk about food. Diets, Recipes, growing fruit and vegetables, pictures of your meals out etc. As part of my drive to change my eating habits, lose weight and adopt a healthier lifestyle, I am experimenting with recipes outside my comfort zone. This week, I made a cake using oats as a flour substitute and fruit instead of sugar.

Ingredients

• 2 1/3 cups of fine oats (whizz in a food processor if you have the larger variety)
• 1 cup of milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 apple chopped
• 1 carrot peeled and grated
• 2/3 cup of chopped walnuts (50g)
• 4 tbsp dried fruit such as raisins or sultanas
• 1 tsp baking powder
• vanilla sugar (1/2 sachet)

• Soak the raisins/ sultanas in hot water. Drain and dry. Set aside
• Put oats and milk in a bowl
• Add chopped apple, grated carrot, walnuts, dried fruit
• Add 1/2 sachet of vanilla sugar (optional)
• In a separate bowl, mix eggs and 1tsp baking powder and whisk.
• Add the eggs to the oat mixture and mix the ingredients together.
• Spoon into a silicon loaf or cake tray (or your cookware of choice) and press down.

Bake at 360F for 180C for 45 – 50 mins. NB note to self for future reference. Allow an hour as my oven is not accurate on temp and there are some variables such as size of apple and carrot. Check with a skewer after 45 mins to see if further cooking is required.

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Bon Appetite!

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