Drummer
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
It being Christmas soon and I have been in remission for quite some time now, I thought that this year I would make the family Christmas cake. It is a treat just to smell the fruit being steeped - BUT - I sought to minimize the impact and so into the recipe list for the second day I added extra nuts, walnut and almond, sunflower seed, desiccated coconut and psyllium flour and an extra teaspoon of baking powder.
It requires a large bowl, but this year it barely all fitted in, and I realised that I was going to need an extra tin. It is made in loaf tins as it is traditionally rectangular, a circular or annular one is properly a Twelfth Cake.
With all the additional ingredients I have a whole extra cake!!
In theory I have reduced the carb content by maybe as much as 25%, as each one is well risen.
I must confess that I might have to make another lot though, as it is absolutely scrumptious.
It seems weird that when aiming for a lower carb content the result is better than the original formulation.
It requires a large bowl, but this year it barely all fitted in, and I realised that I was going to need an extra tin. It is made in loaf tins as it is traditionally rectangular, a circular or annular one is properly a Twelfth Cake.
With all the additional ingredients I have a whole extra cake!!
In theory I have reduced the carb content by maybe as much as 25%, as each one is well risen.
I must confess that I might have to make another lot though, as it is absolutely scrumptious.
It seems weird that when aiming for a lower carb content the result is better than the original formulation.