I love it when I can whip something together from the store cupboard basics. This super easy and tasty healthy coffee and walnut cake is a prime example. Healthy? Yes, there is no sugar or gluten in this recipe.
Healthy Coffee and Walnut Cake
This is UK Coffee Week so what better time to tell you about this. My gorgeous sugar free gluten free coffee and walnut cake. Even better this super easy cake is made using basic Store Cupboard Ingredients that most folks have lurking in their cupboards somewhere.
Sugar Free and Gluten Free too!
It’s all too easy just now to pile on the pounds while we are stuck at home. The sofa and those movies are so enticing. Especially if you throw in that bar of chocolate you found in a drawer left over from Christmas. Or are busily clearing out the nibbles from the larder.
Well this easy coffee and walnut cake contains no sugar. It gets it’s sweetness from the very ripe banana and the warmth of vanilla.
I don’t know about you but I always save bananas. I peel, chop and freeze those babies the minute they get all brown and spotty. They make brilliant smoothies and ice-creams. Banana bread too of course if they don’t actually reach the freezer.
Healthy Coffee and Walnut Cake
Ingredients
All you need for this healthy coffee and walnut cake is a banana, 2 eggs, baking powder, nut butter (have you tried my recipe for homemade nut butter), diluted coffee, vanilla extract, walnuts and some ground almonds.
Look at that. No sugar, no flour, no butter. It’s ticking all those healthy boxes but is a treat with a cuppa any day.
How to make it
Sugar free gluten free coffee and walnut cake is super easy to make. Just mash the banana and stir together with the eggs then add all the other ingredients. Reserve a few walnuts to decorate before baking. I like to stir this cake batter by hand. Use a mixer if you prefer but don’t use a food processor or it will just whazz it up too much.
Pop it in the oven and that’s it. Simple!
How many does this serve
This sugar free gluten free coffee and walnut cake is a small one. I have used a little 13cm/5″ baking tin to make it. It’s plenty for 4 slices. Of course you can just double up this recipe and use a bigger baking tin.
How long will this keep
This cake will keep for about 3 days in a sealed box.
Can you freeze it
Yes, wrap well in baking parchment then cling film and pop into the freezer for up to 3 months.
If you like this recipe then you’ll love my Sugar Free Gluten Free Coconut Cake. And why not check out all my other Easy Sugar Free Recipes too.
Karon x
Sugar Free Gluten Free Coffee and Walnut Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana
- 2 medium free range eggs
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
- 1/2 cup sugar free nut butter
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp chopped walnuts plus a few walnut halves to decorate
- 1 tbsp ground almonds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C and grease and line a small 5"/13cm baking tin
- beat together the banana and eggs
- Dilute the coffee with 1 tbsp boiling water and add this plus all other ingredients (apart from a few walnut halves) to the banana mix and stir well
- Pour batter into prepared baking tin and lightly press the walnut halves on top
- bake for approximately 30 minutes or until golden and a skewer inserted in centre comes out clean
- Cool in tin for 10 minutes then on a cooling rack
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YUM! This is one of my favorite flavor combinations, but it is hardly used here in the States! I have a bag of local walnuts in the pantry… time to bake! Thank you for sharing your beautiful recipes!
Hope you try this one
K
I was so happy to find this healthy coffee and walnut cake recipe. It didn’t disappoint as it was just delicious! I will definitely be baking it again and again. Thanks Karon. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
Hi Annette
So thrilled to hear that you like this healthy little cake so much. Hope all is well in Australia during this strange year.
K