Recipe: Sugar-Free Applesauce Cake with Apple Butter Frosting, Sugar-Free Banana Cake, and Fat and Sugar-Free Healthy Cake - For Val: Some Sugar-Free Cake Recipes for Grand-Kids...

SUGAR FREE APPLESAUCE CAKE
Source: Lynn
Yield: 1 (9-inch) square cake

"Moist apple cake with only the natural goodness of apples for sweetener. Great for kids and people watching their refined sugar intake."

3 eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 cup frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/2 cups ground almonds
2 Macintosh apples - peeled, cored and finely chopped
FOR THE APPLE BUTTER FROSTING:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
3 tablespoons unsweetened apple butter
2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 inch square baking pan.

Beat the eggs until they drop like ribbons from the beaters. Continue beating and add the oil in a thin stream. Beat in the 1 cup applesauce and the 1 cup unsweetened apple juice concentrate.

Beat in the flour gradually until well blended. Add the baking soda, ground ginger, ground almonds and apples, mix to combine.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 40 minutes or until the cake tests done. Let cake cool on a rack for 15 minutes before turning out of pan. Cool completely before frosting.
Carefully slice the cake in half horizontally with a long serrated knife. Fill and frost with Apple Butter Frosting.

TO MAKE APPLE BUTTER FROSTING:
Beat the cream cheese until soft and fluffy. Gradually beat in the apple butter and remaining 2 tablespoons apple juice concentrate.

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SUGAR-FREE BANANA CAKE
Servings: 8-10

2/3 cup banana, mashed
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup water
3 large eggs
2 cups unbleached flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
Optional: 1 cup chopped walnuts OR 1/2 cup chopped walnuts and 1/2 cup raisins

Grease and flour a 9x13-inch pan.

Beat together mashed banana and soft butter until creamy. Beat in water.

In a separate bowl, beat eggs until very foamy. Beat into mixture. Blend in flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Beat until smooth. Stir in walnuts or walnuts and raisins, if desired. Spread batter evenly in pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until a knife inserted comes out clean. Cool.

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FAT AND SUGAR-FREE HEALTHY CAKE
Source: Berenice Goelzer

1 cup oatmeal (rolled oats), whole (not refined)
1 1/2 cups of buttermilk (may be 1 low - 0% - fat yogurt plus skimmed milk to complete 1 1/2 cup)
3/4 to 1 cup chopped prunes (can mix with raisins, and even put more if you like sweeter)
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1/2 cup bran or oat bran
Those who wish a sweeter cake may add about 1/8 cup honey
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Ground cinnamon to taste
1 banana (very ripe) well mashed (or about 100 grs. - 3 oz. - of unsweetened apple sauce, or pureed prunes)

Place the oatmeal and the buttermilk in a bowl (a bit in advance so the oats soften); mix well

Add dried fruit. Add all the other ingredients and mix very well, adding the mashed banana (or apple sauce, or pureed prunes), last. Pour batter (it is quite solid, like for muffins) in a 9 inch, or 23 cm., non-stick loaf pan; sprinkle with oat flakes and LET IT REST IN THE PAN FOR 20 MINUTES (BEFORE BAKING)

Bake in preheated oven 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Centigrade for 1 hour to 1 hr 10 min. (really depends on the oven - in mine it takes 1 hour 10 minutes).