What flavouring would you recommend? Sounds lovely xBaked oats are great as a dessert. Use the oats as HEB then syns come from whatever flavouring you use. I've made it with peanut hottie and it made 3 buns (using the silicone bun cases) and drizzled some choc shot on too. I've also made it with raspberries but put it into a ceramic dish instead. Recipe is: 35g oats 50 ml milk 2 tbsp sweetener 1 small or med egg Plus whatever flavoring Drop of vanilla extract Mix all together and put in oven 20 mins. This is currently my favourite HEB
So far I've only done it with the peanut hottie and raspberries. Prefer the raspberries- less syns with them too!
Lee, have you tried the chickpea and apricot cake by any chance? It came out more cakey for me than most of the low-syn cake recipes. You can always leave out the apricots and add a Highlights sachet instead if you want chocolate cake I suppose. This cake was nice warm as well as cold; pic shows half the cake on a side plate.
Since I cannot for the life of me see the difference between blending chickpeas and adding savoury spices (as per the syn-free hummus recipe on the SW website) and blending chickpeas and adding sweetener and extract (as per this recipe), for me this cake - on Green or EE - only needs counting as half a syn for the baking powder, and of course the Hex if you add the apricots. I'm sure somebody will let you know how many syns a can of chickpeas is if you wish to syn them though!
Apricot & Chickpea Cake
1 x 400g tin chickpeas (drained & rinsed thoroughly, then dried on a paper towel)
1 tsp baking powder (½ syn)
4 tbsp Splenda (stays sweet during cooking unlike other sweeteners)
3 eggs
70g semi-dried apricots, chopped (Hex B)
1 tbsp almond or vanilla extract
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Pre-heat oven to 180C.
Line a small loaf tin or 7-8" sponge tin with baking parchment, then spritz the parchment with Frylight.
Blend together everything except the apricots, until the mixture looks like cake mix.
Stir in the apricots and bake for about 30 mins or until your skewer comes out clean.
Enjoy!
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This is technically classified as a tweak and is not half a syn for the entire cake.
As the Chick Peas are being utilised as a replacement for flour, you will need to Syn it appropriately and chickpeas rack up the syns rapidly, proceed with caution! :3
Eton Mess!!
Small meringue nest (3 syns)
Fat free greek yogurt (mixed with a little sweetner to taste)
raspberries/strawberries
Mix it all together and it's done!
You can use which ever fat free yoghurt you prefer - I've used the vanilla Activia yogurts before, they worked quite well (and still free )
One of my all time favourite desserts and it's pretty low in syns
I've never tried to half a syn cake, but I hate eggs (unless it's in a proper cake of course lol) and my friedn advised me not to try it as she thought it was quite eggy tasting.
I do love a smash cake though, plenty of strawberries on top, it's lovely! Can't even taste the smash!
Thanks,
The Eton mess, for me is what it is - a mess something bugs me about it and i'm not quite sure what it is lol.
The cous cous cake tastes like cous cous so you don't taste the egg. The 1/2 cake thing taste like egg to me. Not tried a smash cake.... that might be a step too far. I have made a savoury version - smash, onion, tomato, bacon, cheese, courgette in little 'cake' type things - they were nice
Lee
Reading through this thread and its pretty interesting some of the idea people come up with to create some of these low syn alternatives to usual favorites.
Got me thinking about how I could go about creating a dessert or sweet treat myself.
I think it would be quite beneficial to put together a comprehensive list of all things that are low in syns that are either sweet or can be sweetened. That way we can look at ingredients and find a way to combine some of them to create something new and unique.
May be worth starting a new thread for this, get everyone's suggestions and add it into a document people can download.
What you think?
I'm on it!Yes! Please! Help!
I can't do it - only by tweaking, go for it!
And i can't bake - did you see that mess of a cake - lol!!
Hi Lee, congratulations on finding something. Would you say you were happy with it, overall?
Also, your cake covering looks pink to me (could be wrong- the eyesight is deteriorating with old age!) and you mentioned you used an Options. Which one did you use?
Thank you.
There is a slight pinkness to it, but it was just a normal Options Hot chocolate sachet - so not sure of the pinkess tink lol - maybe i should be worried.
In all honesty - nope not happy - it just takes like a slice of cous cous - it was ok, i have one piece and one the following day. What was nice and surprising is the topping, which is FF Fromage Frais went hard the following day so it was more like icing lol