Healthy Peanut Butter Cake
This Healthy Peanut Butter Cake is made with Oats and Peanut Butter and no refined sugar. Easy to make, soft and a healthier cake recipe than the sugar loaded and flour loaded one’s
Peanut Butter is an absolute delicious ingredient and when added to cake, it takes it to the next level. It’s also a healthier option instead of regular butter
About this Healthy Peanut Butter Cake
An easy to make cake recipe which takes barely 5 minutes to mix
It has a fluffy texture and taste delicious
Has the goodness of oats, walnuts, nut butter with no refined sugar added
A regular cake when made with refined flour and loads of sugar tends to taste good but not very good for health reasons. Most healthier recipes have substitutes that turn the regular cake into a not so tasty version. With this recipe, you’ll have no complains
This cake recipe turns out fluffy, with a creamy peanut butter taste in every bite and a crunch from the chopped walnuts added. The added oats in this recipe helps to reduce the quantity of refined flour added and thus making this cake a healthier option
Ingredients to make this Healthy Peanut Butter Cake
Peanut Butter
Like the cake name goes, peanut butter is the key ingredient in this recipe. Use unsweetened peanut butter. I like to use the crunchy butter instead of the creamy one, but you may use whats easily available to you. Make sure the peanut butter is freshly purchased and not very firm or extra thick but looser in texture
Rolled Oats
Another important ingredient is rolled oats in this recipe. Adding oats, reduces the quantity of refined flour added thus making this an important ingredient. Use instant oats incase you do not find rolled oats
Egg
Eggs are known to give cakes a good taste and fluffy texture and thats the reason I highly recommend you use eggs even in this recipe. You may try flaxseed eggs for an egg-free version if you’d like
Walnuts
Feel free to use almonds or cashews too instead of walnuts. Nuts in a cake add a good crunch and thats the reason I’ve added it
All purpose flour
This recipe has a little bit of all purpose flour and not much. But it is essential to add it for a good cake texture
Chocolate Chips
Chocolate chips add flavor and color to this recipe. If not chocolate chips, you may even add any chopped chocolate chunks of your choice – milk, dark or white chocolate
Maple Syrup Or Honey
Cakes are meant to be sweet and thus sugar plays an important role in every recipe. But since we’re making a healthier version, I’m skipping refined sugar and adding maple syrup or honey which is a natural sweetener. You may more or less of this ingredient as per choice
Recipe Card – Healthy Peanut Butter Cake
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup honey OR maple syrup
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
Dry ingredients
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 2 tbsp all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp walnuts, chopped
- ½ tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together and mix. Thats, rolled oats, all purpose flour, chocolate chips, walnuts, baking soda and salt. Set this aside
- In another bowl, combine the wet ingredients, thats egg, peanut butter, honey and vanilla essence. Beat well until the egg turns fluffy (takes about a minute)
- Next, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well making sure there are no lumps. Pour this mixture in a 6 inch baking dish lined with parchment paper
- Bake at 180 degrees C for 40 minutes. This cake should be slightly sticky which means when you push in a skewer to check, it should be slightly sticky and not dry (should be like a brownie)
- Once baked, let it come to room temperature and then cut into squares just like a brownie
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Nutrition Information
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