Old Fashioned Fruitcake - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 6 eggs
- 2 teaspoons brandy flavoring
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 pounds ready mix candied fruit
- 1 pound seedless raisins
- 3/4 pound candied pineapple
- 3/4 pound whole candied cherries
- 2 cups pecan halves
- Garnish: light corn syrup and pecan halves
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar and eggs with an electric mixer until fluffy, adding eggs one at a time until yolk dissapears. Stir in flavoring.
- Sift together next 4 ingredients and mix thoroughly with butter and egg mixture. Work the fruit and nuts into batter with hands. Grease and flour a 19" tube pan.
- Fill pan 2/3 full with batter. Bake at 275 ° for 3 hours. One-half hour before cake is done, brush top with corn syrup. Decorate with pecan halves and finish baking. Cool. If desired, place cake, wrapped in a wine-soaked cloth, in an airtight container. Store in a cool place for several weeks; this blends and mellows the 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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