QUICK NO-FAT APPLE CAKE

To start the week healthily and, as lately, I seems to buy more and more butter, I decided to bake a fat-free cake! Luckily, I also had a few apples which were looking a bit sad, so after a bit of googling, I found what I wanted: a "Quick No-Fat Apple Cake" recipe.

I was a bit sceptical about it as I wondered what kind of "pudding" or "omelet" it would give, but I was positively surprised by this cake as it was, without doubt, a REAL cake!!!

Since, it was prepared without any kind of fat, this cake was a bit more dense and elastic than your average rich butter cake, but it was very soft and fine. The apples and the spices gave a delicious aroma and the light molasses added a caramelly sweetness...

I recommend you to try it if you are fed up of continuously seeing the butter disappear from your fridge or if you are looking for an eatable diet treat...

I found the recipe on www.recipesource.com and operated of few changes for my own pleasure and yours, I hope...

Ingredients:
170-180g Plain white flour
1 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Tsp Salt
1 Tsp Ground cinnamon
A pinch ground nutmeg
A pinch ground cloves
80-90g Castor sugar (depending on how sugary you like things)
1/3 Cup (~83ml) Skim milk (or normal milk)
2 Egg whites (~50g)
1/3 Cup Light molasses, light honey or corn syrup (I used "mélasse à tartiner")
2 Boscop apples, peeled, cored and cut in 1,5 cm wedges
Topping:
Ground cinamon, to taste
Light brown sugar, to taste

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
3. In a medium bowl, using a whisk, thouroughly mix the sugar, milk, egg whites and syrup/molasses/honey together.
4. Gradually stir into dry ingredients in order to form a smooth batter.
5. Add 2/3 of the cut apples in the batter and mix carefully.
6. Pour the batter into a rectangular cake tin and place the leftover apples on the top.
7. Sprinkle with sugar and ground cinnamon.
8. Bake for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
9. Cool on a wire rack.

Remarks:
If you wish, you can also use brown sugar for the batter.
Don't beat the batter!

Serving suggestions:
Eat for breakfast or at any time of the day.
For those who are not observing a diet, spread butter on your slice of cake...

(Scale -Pic by www.scales-r-us.com)