Healthy "Hot Cross Bun" Cake

If you are craving the taste of Easter but resisting the Hot Cross Buns at the supermarket checkout, this cake could be for you.

This is a healthier alternative to an Easter Simnel cake. Spiced with cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, so it has all the tastes of Easter, but it's based on oats and fruit rather than flour and sugar. Great for a morning tea, and with it’s basis on fruit and oats, it's full of fibre and you can even claim it's heart healthy and gut healthy.

This cake is delicious served warm or cold, and freezes well. Cut into portions before you freeze to make for a quick and easy serving. Great thawed the night before and fine to eat cold on its own or with natural yoghurt, or it can be gently reheated, whichever takes your fancy.

Ingredients

3 Bananas

3 eggs

3 tbsp coconut oil

3 tbsp maple syrup

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp ground cloves

3 tbsp chia seeds

3 cups rolled oats

Juice of 1 orange

1 cup sultanas

2 apples, cored and diced

Method

1. Place all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix together

2. Mash the bananas in a second bowl

3. Beat the eggs in a third bowl

4. Add the beaten eggs to the mashed banana, add coconut oil, orange juice and maple syrup and mix well.

5. Mix the wet and dry ingredients together

6. Add in the chopped apple and raisins and fold them all together

7. Place in a lined cake tin and bake at 180ºC for about 45 mins

8. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the baking tray

9. Delicious served warm

   
   

Thermomix method

1. Place bananas, eggs, coconut oil, maple syrup, orange juice and spices in the the jug and mix on speed 4 for 10 seconds

2. Add orange juice, bicarb, chia seeds and oats, mix on reverse for 10 seconds speed 3

3. Add the fruit and mix on reverse speed 3 until all folded in

4. Place in a lined cake tin and bake at 180ºC for about 40 mins

5. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the baking tray

6. Delicious served warm

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