Low Fat Honey Almonds & Spices Cake - Rosh Hashanah (Kosher) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 tablespoons canola oil (30 g)
    1/2 cup natural applesauce, with no added sugar (125 g)
    3 whole eggs (180 g)
    3 egg whites (105 g)
    1 cup honey (170 g)
    1 1/2 cups brown sugar, stiffed (220 g)
    3 cups all-purpose flour (360 g)
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    1 dash salt
    2 teaspoons cinnamon
    1 teaspoon nutmeg
    1/2 cup almonds (chopped, 50 g)
    1/2 cup coffee (ready to drink)
    1/4 cup almonds (halves, white, for decoration)
    1 teaspoon oil, to grease pans
    1 tablespoon flour, to flour pans
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 355F (180C).
    Beat with mixer: eggs, oil, sugar and apple sauce for 3 minutes.
    In a different bowl, mix well: flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
    Gradually and alternately add flour mixture and coffee to the egg batter - flour added last, until smooth mixture.
    Add chopped almonds and blend into mixture - do not over mix.
    Pour into 2 greased and floured English Cake Baking Pans.
    Decorate with halved almonds.
    Bake in lover section of the oven for 55-65 minutes, until cakes are stable and dry.
    Cool thoroughly.
    Cake is best the day after: you may cover with aluminum foil and keep at room temperature for 3 days.
    You may freeze up to three months.

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