Indulge in a guilt-free treat with a healthier coconut cake recipe. Make this delicious dessert using natural sweeteners and healthier fats.
Coconut Cake
One of my most favorite cakes? A coconut cake!
And, when I can make it more guilt free, then I'll have a larger slice!
Just how do you make desserts like cake and cookies healthier? Just a few ideas:
- Use whole grain flours or GF flours like almond flour.
- Cut down on sugar. Or better, yet, use more natural sweeteners, like bananas, coconut sugar, maple sugar, honey, maple syrup.
- Use healthier fats like olive oil or coconut oil.
- Add protein like cottage cheese. Or in this recipe FlavCity Vanilla Cream Protein Smoothie Mix.
Easy Coconut Cake Recipe
You've got wet and dry ingredients in this recpe. That makes this coconut cake pretty dang simple!
I took this cake to my son/DIL home along with her parents there, and it was devoured! It got hugely rave reviews, too. For me, it's like eating
Super Easy Coconut Cake
What makes this cake so moist?
Cottage cheese. And, the full fat coconut milk also helps with moistness.
If you want to use honey rather than coconut sugar, that's also an option.
Healthy Coconut Cake
This coconut cake is packed with the best ingredients that are good for you.
Just take a look at the ingredients.
And, you've got 50 grams of protein from the FlavCity Vanilla Cream Smoothie Mix and 24 grams from the 4% fat small curd cottage cheese. Seven grams in the coconut milk. 2.5 grams in the bananas. Twelve grams in the two eggs.
That's a whopping about 95 grams of protein in this coconut cake!
Gluten Free Cake
We're keeping it gluten free with 1: to: 1 GF flour! You can certainly use regular flour. And, I do think almond flour would work. I'd avoid coconut flour because it just absorbs so much more liquid.
Cottage Cheese in Recipes
Oh, how I love cottage cheese. It's a superfood. Full of protein. And, so many options for using, cooking, eating.
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