 If you are trying to improve your diet then you may be disappointed when you find a nice recipe but it has lots of white sugar and flour and doesn't seem very healthy. You don't need to follow a recipe to the letter, adapt it using healthier ingredients. For example - doughnuts - not the most healthy food- but you can make doughnuts that can be eaten as part of a healthy diet with just a few ingredient swaps. (I had just acquired a doughnut baking tin so was looking for ideas on what to make) Original Recipe 75g white flour - replace with wholegrain, spelt, buckwheat, whatever you like. I chose a gluten free flour mix 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt - can give this a miss if you like 55g golden castor sugar - I used 25g xylitol (a natural sweetener) and 20g coconut sugar (55g seemed a lot) 1 egg - use an organic egg 10g melted butter - I used coconut oil vanilla essence Instead of sugar icing, I improvised with a desert spoon of cashew nut butter and added raw cacao powder and maple syrup to get a good taste and consistency I made small doughnuts (150C for 8-10 minutes) and sandwiched them together with the chocolate mix  Another Recipe I tried was 1/4 of my banana and prune cake recipe. This worked even better 60g spelt flour 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 banana 40g prunes 11/2 tbs water splash coconut milk Put the dry ingredients in a large bowl In a mini blender whizz the prunes and water Add the prune mix to the mashed bananas Add wet ingredients to dry and mix Add a splash of coconut milk Cook at 160C for 10-15 mins When cool drizzle with 70% dark chocolate melted with a little bit of coconut oil |
