Apple, Walnut, and Honey Spice Cake with Honey-Cream Cheese Frosting - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
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Recipe by Marie Simmons
A spice cake to beat all others! Apples, walnuts, and honey up the ante of this cream cheese-frosted confection.
Ingredients
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 c. light brown sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3/4 c. orange blossom, lavender, or other honey
- 3/4 c. vegetable oil
- 2 1/2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 3 c. diced, peeled, and cored crisp apples (Fuji, Granny Smith, or Golden Delicious)
- 1 c. broken walnuts
- 1 c. diced dried apricots or golden raisins
- Honey-Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x13-inch cake pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla for 5 minutes, or until light. Slowly beat in honey and oil until well blended.
- In a separate bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt together. Add flour mixture, apples, walnuts, and apricots to egg mixture; fold together until blended. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 35 minutes, or until top is set; cool in pan. Spread with Honey-Cream Cheese Frosting; sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Cut into squares.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey, Apples, 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). Honey, of...
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