Alternatives to baking cakes

Baking cakes is chosen by many because, in addition to the sweet delicacy that can be placed on the table, the process of making it itself reassures them. It can also be seen as a kind of hobby. No one is alone with the love of making cakes, just as no one is with someone who is really sweet-mouthed. However, sweets do not or only very rarely fit into a health-conscious lifestyle.

Cakes are mostly made of sugar, flour and fat, they are ingredients that are not at all suitable for diet, weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. Have you ever wondered how you could trigger these?

Instead of sugar

The best known sugar substitutes are artificial sweeteners such as erythritol. xylitol, stevia. Erythritol is essentially a sugar alcohol that gives the sugar a sweetness of approx. It can provide 70%. However, xylitol is similarly sweet to sugar, but stevia should be handled with care because it is 300 times sweeter, so you only need a very tiny amount of it.
Honey is our natural sweetener, which we often use.
Anyone who stands for naturalness can try sweetening it with dates or bananas.

Instead of flour

In connection with sugar substitution, we have written about bananas as a possible sweetener, but this fruit is also suitable as a flour substitute. Have you never thought of it like that before? Avocados and sweet potatoes can also be perfect substitutes, but you can also try different seed flours (almond, coconut or oatmeal). Just because you have to figure out which one is the most delicious substitute.

Instead of butter

Since butter is full of calories, it can be replaced with low-fat cottage cheese. In this case, however, double the amount of cottage cheese should be calculated.
Bananas seem to be a universal fruit because they can replace not only sugar and flour, but also butter.

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