Honey Cake - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground clove
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
- 1 cup pure honey
- 3/4 cup lukewarm coffee (brewed, or instant dissolved in water)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons packed grated orange zest
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 °F with rack in middle. Generously spray pan, including center tube, with baking spray.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder and soda, salt, and spices in a large bowl.
- Whisk eggs well in another large bowl and whisk in sugar, oil, honey, coffee, and zest until well combined.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the honey mixture, then stir with the whisk until the batter is smooth.
- Pour batter into pan (it's liquid enough to level itself in the pan), and bake in oven until springy to the touch and a cake tester comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes.
- Let cake cool in the pan on a rack for 20 minutes.
- Loosen cake from the pan with a thin rubber spatula, then invert cake onto the rack (see Cooks' Notes) and cool completely.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey.
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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