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Just made this cake for my diabetic husband using xylitol… it has come out amazingly. I versioned it from cakes I have made in the past. Surely something that tastes so good can’t be ok?!
Banana Cake
Ingredients :
175g xylitol
175g olive spread
50g ground almonds
100g coconut flour
4 or 5 bananas mashed
1/2 tsp approx vanilla essence
1/2 tsp approx mixed spice
2 tsp baking powder
5 eggs
Heat oven to 180/160 fan
Grease 20cm cake tin and line with grease proof paper
Mash bananas (riper the better)
Put fat in microwave for 30 seconds to soften, beat in xylitol (I used a hand blender throughout)
Beat in eggs
Beat in rest of ingredients
Cook for 45-50 minutes until a knife comes out clean and voila!
Absolutely moist and delicious. Also good for coeliacs.
Obviously it’s a special occasion type thing but interested in comments - I am very new at this as my husband is newly diagnosed.
Peace and love peeps ✌❣️
 
I certainly wouldn't eat it in anything but very tiny quantities because of the bananas. That's a lot of high carb banana per cake!
 
Thanks for the recipe for banana cake. It sounds lovely.

In replacing the sugar with an alternative that has reduced the amount of carbs, but there is still a lot of carbs in the cake, especially from the bananas and the coconut flour, so for me it would have to be lots of insulin injected or a tiny piece as a treat.

it takes a bit of getting to know the carbs in different foods. All the carbs that we eat, whatever the source will be converted to glucose once inside us, and will need insulin to enable our muscles to use the glucose, and extract it from our blood. Each of us has to find how many carbs we can manage.
we are all different and I was surprised by the image of oats on my levels. I thought it was a healthy meal but it made my glucose levels rise more than I wanted. I now make a cereal using coconut along with quinoa flakes and loads of nuts and seeds. With the homemade one I get my carbs down and much smaller rise.
 
Also be careful as xylitol can cause dodgy stomach if eaten in quantity.
5 bananas would be about 150g carb plus a bit more for the flours, so cutting the cake into 10 would be about 20g carb per slice.
 
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