Want To Make a Healthy Christmas Cake This Christmas?
Is there really such a thing as a healthy Christmas cake? With the festive season full of indulgent Christmas dinners, snacks, and desserts, staying on track with your weight loss goals can feel like a challenge. But by opting for healthier versions of your festive favourites, you can still enjoy the season guilt-free.
In fact, there’s no reason you can’t savour a delicious healthy Christmas cake while on a diet! Our recipe is free from added sugar and fat, letting you have your cake and eat it!
Healthy Christmas Cake Recipe
Method:
- Line the base and sides of 20cm squared cake tin with greaseproof paper.
- Place the mixed fruit, apricots, undrained pineapple, orange juice and spice in a saucepan.
- Bring the saucepan slowly to boil, simmer uncovered for 2-3 minutes and then remove the mixture from the heat.
- Cover the saucepan and allow the contents to cool.
- Stir the egg yolks (optional) and baking soda into the fruit mixture.
- Whip the egg whites in a large bowl until stiff.
- Fold in the fruit mixture, and then fold in the flour. The mixture should be firm.
- Spread the mixture into the cake tin and bake in the oven at 160C for 1 ½ hours.
- Cover the hot cake with foil and allow it to cool in the pan.
- On special occasions, you can decorate the top of the cake with some glace cherries and a few almonds.
This recipe is 148.9 calories per 94g serving. Serves 12.
You will need:
- 500g mixed dried fruit
- ½ cup chopped dried apricot
- 400g can crushed pineapple with juice
- ¼ cup fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large eggs, with the whites and yolks separated
- 2 cups wholemeal self-rising flour
We found this recipe on food.com written by the user ‘Keencook’, if you are interested in looking at similar recipes to this one, here’s a link to the original recipe. Here are also some other blog posts you may like: Stay trim over Christmas, Twelve Days of Christmas.
Happy festivities!
We hope you enjoy the festivities and don’t forget we’re here to help, so if you would like some further diet advice just make an appointment with our dietitian, or get in touch with our wonderful team for more advice about your weight loss journey.