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Tuesday 28 May 2013

More on nuts !

Coffee and walnut cake


Ingredients
100 grams of ground almonds
100 grams of walnuts
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon of melted butter
2 tablespoons of double cream

1 tablespoon of instant coffee
100 grams of clotted cream

Method
Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.
Melt the butter I used a Pyrex jug, add the eggs, cream. Place 1 tablespoon of instant coffee in a cup and pour some boiling water over the coffee, keep water to a minimum, just enough to melt the coffee. Then add the dry ingredients and mix. Microwave in a 700watt for 5 minutes. Allow to cool and cut in half. Spread on clotted cream and add walnut halves. Serves six, around five carbs per portion.
Coffee and pecan nut cake
Pecan cake same as walnut cake above but with 100 grams of pecan nuts
 Luxury Low carb nut cake

Ingredients
 125 grams of desiccated coconut un sweetened.
100 grams of ground almonds
55 grams golden flax seeds ground
4 beaten eggs
2 table spoons of sugar or sweetener of choice: see note below.
1 table spoon of baking powder
1 table spoon of cinnamon
1 table spoon of ground nutmeg
1 very large slug of Grand Marnier
half a cup of water
third of a cup of melted butter

I also add broken walnuts and almond flakes

Method mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another bowl. Add the wet to the dry and mix thoroughly. Bake for about 50 minutes at gas mark 7 or 200 in an electric oven. A little tip is to check it at around 45 minutes, by taking it out of the non stick tin, I line my tins with a long strip of baking paper, which makes it very easy to remove the cake from the tin. Cut it in half to check it has cooked right through. If not, back in the oven for a bit longer. I reckon the cake is less than 5 carbs for a nice thick slice. Serves eight.

Please note! If you are using aspartame/acesuflame sweetener, remember to reduce the heat to no more than 170 degrees. Above this and you end up with a truly awful taste and no sweetness.
  
Eddie

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And to think that some idiots think low carbing is hard!!
I LUUURVE walnut and coffee cake... and pecans are even better.
You've got some rockin' recipes on this site Eddie, Jan, Graham and all...

Anonymous said...

Better than a sugar filled cake- check out 'The Food Programme' on BBC radio 4 this week.
A family who make cakes for a living but none of them eat sugar anymore as one of their children has diabetes, Robert Lustig, Michael Yudkin (John's son)and also reps of soft drink industry etc

Anonymous said...

Wow! Doesn't Michael Yudkin look just like his father.

Anonymous said...

These all look amazing, thanks for the ideas
Kate