Healthy sweet breakfast cake {without refined sugar}

With this easy recipe, you can make a healthy sweet breakfast cake without refined sugar and with whole wheat flour. Flavored with gingerbread spices. A fluffy cake with a delicious taste that you will enjoy!

Do you also love breakfast cakes with gingerbread flavor? I like them a lot and bake them regularly. Because the recipe is super easy and you can make a lot of variations. I already have a traditional kruidkoek recipe and a traditional peperkoek cake on my blog.

And I couldn't resist myself for experimenting with the recipe. And this variant without refined sugar and with whole wheat flour wat the result.

📖 Variations and substitutes

• You can fill this gingerbread with ½ cup of raisins (80 grams) and ½ cup (60 grams) of finely chopped walnuts. Mix the raisins through the batter. Pour it into the tin and sprinkle the chopped walnuts on top.
• Substitute cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves with 1 teaspoon gingerbread spices. In that case, you're baking a healthy Dutch Peperkoek.

💭 Top tips

• By lining the cake tin with baking paper, you can get it out of the tin easier.
• Let the healthy cake stand for 5 minutes after baking before releasing it from the tin. That way it will shrink a little bit and you can take it out much easier.
• Check if the breakfast cake is done by pricking a satay pricker in the thicker part of the cake (most of the time the middle part). If it comes out dry, your cake is done.
• When you use a convectional oven bake the cake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). If you're baking with a conventional oven bake the cake at 390 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
• If you want a soft outside, instead of a crunchy top, put baking paper on top and therefore cover the batter.

⏲️  Preparation and storage

• Wrap your healthy ontbijtkoek in aluminum foil and store at room temperature. This way you can store it for up to 1 week.
• Don't store it in the refrigerator, because it will become dry.
• You can freeze this sweet bread. Wrap it in foil and put it in a plastic freezer bag or box. This way you can store it for up to 3 months. TIP slice the cake before freezing. That way you can defrost the portion you'll need. Defrost the cake at room temperature.

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Healthy sweet breakfast cake {without refined sugar}

With this easy recipe, you can make a healthy sweet breakfast cake without refined sugar and with whole wheat flour. Flavored with gingerbread spices. A fluffy cake with a delicious taste that you will enjoy!

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 1 hr 10 mins

Total Time 1 hr 20 mins

Course Baking bread, Cake

Cuisine inspiration Dutch

Servings 8 slices

Calories 180 kcal

Equipment

convectional oven or conventional oven (in that case increase the temperature indicated in the recipe by 20 degrees Celsius)

cake tin 6 inches / 14 cm

Ingredients

 

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• 250 gram whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• ⅙ teaspoons salt
• 200 ml milk
• 2 tablespoons apple butter
• 100 grams honey
• 1 egg size L
• 2 tablespoons gingerbread spices

Notes

• By lining the cake tin with baking paper, you can get it out of the tin easier.
• Let the healthy cake stand for 5 minutes after baking before releasing it from the tin. That way it will shrink a little bit and you can take it out much easier.
• Check if the breakfast cake is done by pricking a satay pricker in the thicker part of the cake (most of the time the middle part). If it comes out dry, your cake is done.
• When you use a convectional oven bake the cake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). If you're baking with a conventional oven bake the cake at 390 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
• If you want a soft outside, instead of a crunchy top, put baking paper on top and therefore cover the batter.

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius).
• Line a baking tin with baking paper.
• In a bowl whisk whole wheat flour with baking soda and salt.
• Heat the milk in a saucepan. When it almost boils, you'll notice some steam above the pan, add the apple butter and honey.
• Stir well and turn off the heat.
• In a bowl mix the egg with the gingerbread spices at high speed for 1 minute.
• Turn the speed to low and pour the hot milk mixture slowly into the saucepan, while keep mixing.
• Add the whole wheat mixture, spoon by spoon, to the batter, while you mix at low speed. Turn the mixer off when the wheat is incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the tin and put it in the oven.
• Bake for 70 minutes until brown.
• Check with a wooden satay pricker if the sweet breakfast cake is done (see TIPS).
• Take the cake from the oven and let it stand for 5 minutes.
• After 5 minutes take the cake from the tin and let it cool down on a wire rack to room temperature.

Nutrition

Calories: 180kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 6gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 343mgPotassium: 174mgFiber: 4gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 78IUCalcium: 54mgIron: 2mg

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