Spiced Apple Cake with Orange Glaze - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup MUSSELMAN'S® Apple Butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves.
- Cream sugar and softened butter or margarine in large bowl. Add eggs, beating thoroughly. Beat in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk. Stir in apple butter.
- Pour into a greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
- Bake in 350 degrees F oven 55 to 65 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.
- Make orange glaze by combining powdered sugar, orange juice, and orange peel. Spoon glaze over warm cake.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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