This sugar free banana cake has plenty of natural sweetness so there’s no need for any sugar. Moist, delicious, healthy, wheat-free, sugar-free, just enjoy it. For those with high ama, kapha or mucus, you had better avoid as bananas tend to increase these.
Sugar free banana cake
This cake has plenty of natural sweetness so there's no need for any sugar. Moist, delicious, healthy, wheat-free, sugar-free, just enjoy it. For those with high ama, kapha or mucous, you had better avoid as bananas tend to increase these.
Ingredients
- 125 g wholemeal spelt flour OR 75g wholemeal and 50g white spelt OR 125g buckwheat flour for gluten-free option (flatter cake)
- 2 ¼ tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 75 g sultanas/raisins
- 50 g butter or ghee melted (use an oil such as coconut or sunflower oil for dairy free)
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp rice/oat/soya milk
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- agave syrup or raw honey to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan. Grease and line a 450g loaf/1lb tin with baking parchment (or a wider tin for a thinner, flatter cake - this works well with the gluten-free buckwheat option).
- Mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sultanas.
- In another bowl, mix the butter, vanilla essence, egg, milk and mashed bananas with a fork.
- Pour the banana mixture into the flour mixture and combine thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
- Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40 mins or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven, allow to cool in the tin for 10 mins then turn out.
- Drizzle with agave syrup/honey if using.
2 Comments
John · June 2, 2023 at 18:19
Ayurvedic way of living does not include egg in their diet.
Kate · June 3, 2023 at 10:34
Thank you for your comment John. Interestingly, this is actually a common myth about Ayurveda, along with many other well-entrenched myths. There is nothing in the ancient texts of Ayurveda to say that egg should not be included in the diet. It may have come into our thinking from Yoga but Ayurveda and Yoga practice different nourishment guidelines. For example, Ayurveda is not a vegetarian science and includes meat in it’s dietary and medicinal recommendations in certain scenarios.