Low Fat Cake Recipes

Ingredients:

1/2 cup apple sauce
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup sugar.
2 1/2 cup mixed dried fruit.
1 (i like to use half
1 currants, half raisins.)
2 egg whites or equivalent,
1 lightly beaten.
1 1/2 cup white flour.
1 (whole wheat is ok, but it
1 changes the taste.)
2 tsp baking powder.

Instructions:

Place the apple sauce, water, sugar, and dried fruit
in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20
minutes, then allow to cool.

Set the oven at 300 deg F (cool). Line a 6-inch round
cake tin with greaseproof paper.

Mix the egg whites into the fruit mixture, then sift
the flour and baking powder into it too. Mix, adding
water if necessary to make a stiff batter. Pour into
the prepared tin, sprinkle the top with brown sugar,
and bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until a skewer inserted
into the centre of the cake comes out clean, more or
less - with all this fruit, it's not going to come out
very clean anyway!

The amount and type of fruit in this recipe can be
varied very much to produce different results. Many
folk in this country would use sultanas (yellow
raisins) for some of the fruit, but I don't like them
so I don't use them. You can substitute 1/2 cup of
chopped glace cherries for some of the fruit, or add
chopped candied orange peel, dates, apricots... The
possibilities are endless.

Posted by williams@vmark.co.uk (Pete Williams) to the
Fatfree Digest [Volume 13 Issue 9] Dec. 9, 1994.

FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by Michelle
Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue
Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV.

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Servings: 1