The Easiest Healthy Lemon Cake
Sugar-free, gluten-free, yummy lemon cake made with almonds. Try it and you want be disappointed! P.S If you don't have problem with gluten, you can swap the ground almonds with whole wheat flour.
Ingredients
- 250-300 gr ground almonds
- 150 ml milk of your choice Almond, lactose-free, coconut, etc
- 80 gr honey If you want only natural occuring sugars, you can use dates. Add 6-7 small dates in boiled water for 15 minutes to soften. Once softened, add them into a mixer with a little bit of water to create a paste with a runny texture. Add the date paste into the rest of the recipe as you would with the honey.
- 60 ml olive oil
- 1 egg If you want to go egg-free add 10gr flaxseeds.
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- In a bowl add all the wet ingredients and mix. Olive oil, milk, honey (or date paste), lemon juice, lemon zest and egg (or flaxseeds).
- In another bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda.
- Then add the dry mix into the first bowl with the wet ingredients and stir again with a spatula.
- Prepare a cake pan by adding baking paper.
- Add in the mixture.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes in 180°C.
- If you want more yuminess, make a frost with greek yogurt, honey and lemon zest and add it on your slice.
