Health Holiday Recipes

That’s Nice! Spice Cake

Guilt-free Gourmet Vol 3, Vicki Griffin, p79

Dry Ingredients

1½ cup white plain flour 

1 cup wholewheat flour, sifted

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon coriander

1 cup raisins (or dried cranberries)

½ cup chopped walnuts (or pecan nuts)

1½ teaspoon orange peel (or dried mixed peel)

1½ teaspoon baking powder

Wet ingredients

Cream together in a small bowl:

½ cup oil

¾ cup honey or sorghum

1 tablespoon maple Extract (opt)

1 tablespoon vanilla essence

½ cup orange Juice

½ cup soymilk   

1. Mix dry ingredients first
2. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl
3. Combine quickly
4. Bake at 350F/175C in a cake dish till done, 35-40 mins
5. Cake will be cooked when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean,  with no cake sticking to it. 

Coconut-Pecan Frosting

Natural Lifestyle Cooking, Ernestine Finley, p155

1 tablespoon margarine

1 ⅓ cup soymilk

¼ cup brown sugar

1 ½ tablespoons plain flour

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

1 ⅓ cup dessicated coconut

1 ⅓ cup chopped pecans

1. Combine margarine, soymilk, brown sugar, flour and vanilla
2. Cook in a pan over medium heat, stirring frequently until mixture thickens.
3. Add coconut and pecans
4. Spread over the cake.