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Healthy Cake?

Updated on May 17, 2016 in Nutrition
2 on May 16, 2016

Avocado Can Be Substituted for Butter to Make the Most Delicious Cake Ever
Brianna Provenzano,Mic

The latest culinary innovation that will make you mouth water is guacamole, minus the onions, lime and garlic… plus chocolate.
Avocados are the creamy, fatty secret to baking delicious, moist vegan cakes, and the recipe substitution is so simple, you’re wonder why you’ve been a slave to dairy all these years.

It’s way healthier for you.
Avocados are rich in Omega-3s and vitamin E, as well as healthy monounsaturated fats that are good for heart health and can help reduce belly fat.

And according to Popsugar, avocados actually have less calories per quarter-cup serving than butter does — about 300 fewer, to be exact.

Congratulations, cake is basically a health food now. Nice work!
The actual substitute process is a piece of… cake

To make your favorite baked goods lean and green instead of butter-filled, simply mash up some avocados into about half the quantity as the amount of butter that your recipe calls for in a measuring cup.

Cooking website the kitchn also suggest that you might have to mess with the wet ingredients a bit, since the avocado won’t melt down in the same way that the butter would have.

 
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1 on May 16, 2016

Delicious! Love it!

on May 17, 2016

It may be great after the other necessary adjustments (substitutions) are added.  Replace the white wheat flour with either almond flour, or bean flour or some other appropriate  ingredient. But, then the issue of sugar — to be replaced with stevia?  It would appear that each recipe demands a remake by a qualified food chemist who is not a department of agriculture educated operative or a food technologist whose mission is to create addictive products that generate unending sales (such as oreo cookies, for example) that compromise the health of anyone who eats them.  Thank you.  ICG

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