Grandma Iny’s Prune Cake - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup Prunes
- 1 cup Sugar
- 3 whole Eggs
- 1 cup Canola Oil
- 1-1/2 cup Flour, Sifted
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon Allspice
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Cover prunes with water. Bring to a boil and cook until soft and mashable, about eight minutes. Remove from heat, drain water, and mash on a plate. Set aside.
- Mix together oil, sugar, and eggs. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Combine wet and dry ingredients, add buttermilk and vanilla and stir gently until just combined. Throw in the mashed prunes and stir gently to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX!
- Pour batter into buttered baking dish (9 x 13 or so) and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE OR INY WILL PADDLE YOUR BOTTOM.
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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