{"id":726,"date":"2013-12-30T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T10:54:00","slug":"baking-without-grain-flour-or-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Baking without grain flour or sugar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love baking.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly I&#8217;m finding it difficult to bake sugar and grain-rich items while I encourage people to follow a low sugar and low grain diet. Here then is my beta version of carrot cake without grain flour and sugar. I used pureed banana in place of the sugar to add sweetness and volume to the beaten egg and oil (using olive oil instead of sunflower seed oil).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-728\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-728\" alt=\"JP keen to try a slice.\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JP keen to try a slice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have sufficient carrots so used zucchini too which works well enough. The coconut flour absorbs liquid at a far greater rate than cake flour does so I will use a third less the next time I make it. The olive oil imparts a flavour to this cake that is not entirely desirable but I&#8217;m loathed to use coconut oil instead as it is so costly. I plan to beef up the cinnamon to make it a more pronounced flavour.<\/p>\n<p>While this dish meets many Paleo requirements it is still high in energy and fat because of the coconut flour, olive oil and banana.<\/p>\n<p>Will let you know how the next one turns out but welcome any input if you&#8217;ve managed to bake successfully without sugar or grain flour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-727\" alt=\"Carrot cake without grain flour or sugar.\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/11-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrot cake without grain flour or sugar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love baking. Increasingly I&#8217;m finding it difficult to bake sugar and grain-rich items while I encourage people to follow a low sugar and low grain diet. Here then is my beta version of carrot cake without grain flour and sugar. I used pureed banana&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=726\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[21,71,93,154],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight_loss","category-what-i-eat","tag-brian-berkman","tag-lchf","tag-paleo","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}