I was looking for a basic 100% Whole Wheat and a 100% Jaggery Cake, a quintessential all rounder healthy Healthy Whole Wheat Cake, which tastes great, which doesn’t feel heavy or lumpy and also which doesn’t have the characteristic raw whole wheat taste. If you are looking for a healthy banana bread, I have you covered with the most amazing but healthy whole wheat banana bread.Do try it.It has no oil or butter!
Ingredients for Whole Wheat Cake
Simple Everyday ingredients
Whole Wheat Flour/ AataBaking SodaBaking PowderUn Refined Sugar-Jaggery / Palm Sugar or Coconut SugarButterMilkEggsVanilla EssenceStrawberries
Most whole wheat cakes I have had are weirdly sunken in the middle or are way too dry. If they are good they usually contain corn flour ,which I have nothing against, in fact this cake was supposed to contain it but I couldn’t find the box in time and I am not the most patient person on the planet so I just omitted it. And I am happy I didn’t find it cause now I can say that this is a 100 % refined flour free cake.
How to Swap Whole Grain Flour for Refined Flour
Lately, I have been reading a lot of cook books.My favourite being “How to Bake Everything” by Mark Bittman. This book teaches you the distinction between the different flours, on how you need gluten in certain recipes like bread and how to work with and around it. Here I also learnt how to substitute refined flour with whole wheat flour. The needs of both flours are different and you cannot blindly swap the two.You have to make adjustments to account for the nature of ingredient you are swapping and that’s what I did.Whole wheat flour needs much more moisture than refined flour.Keeping that in mind I have added more milk to this Healthy Whole Wheat Cake because of which its super moist.
Refined Sugar Free Whole Wheat Cake
The other change I have made is with how I incorporated the jaggery.Ideally the white sugar is mixed with the eggs but jaggery tends to have lumps in it and also has a lower melting point so I added the jaggery to the hot milk instead of the eggs. By doing so the jaggery melted and mixed better in the cake batter instead of being Lumpy and grainy. For those of you who don’t know what jaggery is-It’s unprocessed sugar made from sugarcane.Also called palm sugar or Gur. You can use coconut sugar if you can’t find jaggery.
Flavours of Healthy Whole Wheat Tea Cake
This is a basic whole wheat tea cake recipe.You need not stick to adding strawberries to it but can swap them with
ChocolateNuts- Almonds,pistachios,WalnutsBlueberries
This can also be made into muffins or cupcakes but the time will vary according to the size of the muffins.I would say around 15-20 minutes but you need to start watching them at the 10 minute mark.
Refined Sugar Replacements
Jaggery is unprocessed sugar from natural sources.It’s usually made with Sugarcane,coconut,dates or Palm.The logic of using jaggery instead of white sugar is the same as using whole grain wheat flour instead of refined flour. Sugar is empty calories but jaggery which is a much more unrefined form of sugar contains a lot more nutrients and vitamins. However don’t let anything fool you into thinking its lesser calories.It’s definitely healthier than white sugar but at the end of the day it’s still a lot of calories. If you dont have Jaggery, use
Grated Palm SugarCoconut SugarNolen Gur
How to make Whole Wheat Cake
Step 1: Prep
Prepare and measure your ingredients. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or 400 F. Line a loaf pan or a round cake pan with baking paper.
Step 2:Make the Batter
Heat the milk on a medium flame.Add the butter and jaggery to it.Let it come to a bubble and switch the heat off. Let the milk mixture cool slightly while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients together - Flour, baking powder, baking soda. Whisk the eggs and add them slowly to slightly cooled(but still warm) milk mixture.Keep mixing while adding. Add Vanilla essence and any other additions like strawberries etc.Mix toghether.
Step 3: Bake
Pour the batter in the prepared pan and bake for 30-40 minutes.
Some More healthy dessert recipes for you
Healthy Finger Millet(Ragi) Banana CakeWhole Grain Banana BreadChocolate Quinoa CakeRagi Chocolate Chip CookiesPeanut Butter Cookies
