Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Lemon poppyseed cake




This recipe is a culmination of this one and this one but I didn't want to use a mixture of coconut and almond flour so I fiddled around with the substitutions until I'd got it right. Don't be afraid if you don't like coconut, I've fed this to the fussy flatmate and the coconut hating bf and both enjoyed it. For some reason because of the tiny amounts of coconut flour you use, and cooking it the coconut flavour goes away and you get a delicious looking traybake like cake. I served it with some of my chia pudding and it was delicious!

Ingredients

70g Coconut flour
350g Full fat greek yoghurt (fage has lowest carb)
Juice of 1 lemon
20g Poppy seeds
3 tsp liquid sweetener
2 tsp baking powder
125g butter
7 eggs

You will also need a hand whisk, a baking parchment lined baking tray (mine was 35cmx22cm), and a sieve.



  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C, and line your baking tray with parchment.
  2. Beat together the eggs, sweetener and yoghurt.
  3. In a separate bowl melt the butter and let it cool, the add it to the mixture and beat it in.
  4. Shift the coconut flour and baking powder into the mixture.
  5. Add the lemon zest and lemon juice.
  6. Mix together until all the ingredients are properly combined.
  7. Pour the mixture into the baking tray and cook for 25-30 minutes until the top springs back when pressed and a toothpick can be removed without cake on it.
  8. Cut into 16 squares and enjoy!





Nutritional Information

Calories  134 kcal
Fat    10.9g
Carbs  2.6g
Fibre  1.9g
Protein   5.6g




4 comments:

  1. Yours looks much more cake-like than mine does! :) I'll have to give your version a try sometime, coconut flour is much cheaper than almond flour where I'm from.

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    1. Let me know how it turns out! Coconut flour is expensive here too, but it goes so much further than almond flour that I don't mind paying it. I always seem to get through almond flour really quickly.

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  2. Thanks so much for this! Lemon drizzle cake was one of my fave before I started the Keto diet but I've made Keto-friendly pizza, cookies & cheese cake so far but this Beats everything! I just need some poppy seeds and yoghurt. ; A ; Do you think double cream will do?

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    1. Ah thanks so much! I'm not sure double cream would work unless you can get the thick stuff. Give it a try though and let me know how it goes!

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