Healthy cake recipes please without bananas

tawtyping

I am looking for healthy cake recipes which don’t involve bananas if anyone can help please. Thanks

Jruzer

Angel food cake is low calorie. It's kind of a pain to make, although depending on how invested you are there are even box versions.

It's not that hard, though - I make one for Mrs Jruzer's birthday most years. You just have to be careful separating the eggs, and use a hand mixer instead of a whisk.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7324/angel-food-cake-i/
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/angel-food-cake-recipe-1938726

SueSueDio

I like this apple cake:

https://aseasyasapplepie.com/low-fat-apple-cake/


Edit: I also made a version last week using a 1:1 gluten-free flour blend instead of AP flour and it turned out well.

lorrpb

Please define what you mean by "healthy cake" and this will help people with ideas. Do you mean no sugar? No flour? No fat?

tawtyping

By healthy I mean lower on fat or sugar than the run of the mill every day recipes. I’ve seen ones which substitute sugar with bananas. Just fancy something as a treat as I have cut out cake altogether. My husband is diabetic so would like to find something he could have too although he loves bananas. Thanks for your help.

lorrpb

If a recipe has more sugar than you want, you can use a sugar substitute for all or part of it. Or make it less sweet in general. It might affect the texture slightly, but in general it's not a big deal. I would just add the liquid slowly because the most common thing is that you might not need "quite" as much.
OTOH, if you have a piece of regular cake once in awhile, you'll both probably be ok, depending on your hubby's sensitivity to sugar.

Here are some search results that might help. Google is your friend:
https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/how-to-substitute-sugar/
https://www.thedailymeal.com/healthy-eating/healthiest-and-unhealthiest-cakes-0
https://thesugarfreediva.com/sugar-free-yellow-cake-recipe/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs8yg82