Pear Cake with Lemon-Honey Cream Cheese Frosting - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups coarsely grated peeled Bosc pears (from about 3 pounds), well drained
- 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 °F. Butter and flour two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and spices in large bowl. Make well in center of flour mixture. Add oil, eggs, milk and vanilla; whisk just until evenly moistened. Fold in pears and nuts; divide between pans.
- Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool cakes in pans on racks.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Nuts, Walnuts.
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). Nuts are...
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