BARLEYmax™ Honey Cake
Serves: 12
Ingredients
¾ cup BARLEYmax™ flour
¾ cup plain flour
1.5 cups self raising flour
1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/3 cup cocoa powder
4 eggs
1.5 cup caster sugar
¾ cup extra virgin olive oil
500g honey
¼ tsp vanilla extract
1.5 cups hot water
Method
- Preheat an oven to 180ºC. Grease a large deep angel cake tin.
- Sift the flours and bicarb into a large bowl. Add the cocoa powder and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, caster sugar, olive oil and honey together until well mixed.
- Pour the egg mixture slowly into the flour mixture, alternating with the hot water. Mix well.
- Pour into the cake tin. Bake for 70 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. If the top starts to burn, add a layer of baking paper to cover the cake.
- Allow the cake to cool before turning out onto a wire rack.
Did you know….
- By replacing haf the regular flour with BARLEYmax™ flour, each serve contains about 30% more dietary fibre.
- BARLEYmax™ is a great flour substitute to increase your daily dietary fibre intake.
Adapted from The Monday Morning Cook Book
https://mondaymorningcookingclub.com.au/recipe/ginas-hair-raising-honey-cake/
Honey Cake – Original
Monday Morning CookBook
Note that recipe states “dash of vanilla extract”. 0.5 teaspoons vanilla extract was used in the recipe analysis.
Serves: 12
| Recipe Analysis (per serve 141g) | |
| Energy (kJ/Cal) | 2215/529 |
| Protein (g) | 6.5 |
| Fat – total (g) | 16.5 |
| Saturated Fat (g) | 2.3 |
| Carbohydrate – total (g) | 90 |
| Sugar (g) | 63.2 |
| Dietary Fibre (g) | 3.8 |
| Sodium (mg) | 315 |
Honey Cake – BARLEYmax™
Half of plain flour of the original recipe (112.5g) was substituted for BARLEYmax™ flour. Note that recipe states “dash of vanilla extract”. 0.5 teaspoons vanilla extract was used in the recipe analysis.
Serves: 12
| Recipe Analysis (per serve 141g) | |
| Energy (kJ/Cal) | 2205/527 |
| Protein (g) | 7.0 |
| Fat – total (g) | 17.2 |
| Saturated Fat (g) | 2.3 |
| Carbohydrate – total (g) | 86.0 |
| Sugar (g) | 64.0 |
| Dietary Fibre (g) | 6.0 |
| Sodium (mg) | 316 |
Intended as general advice only. Consult your health care professional to discuss any specific concerns.
