Author Notes
Wishing everyone here a very healthy, happy season ahead! Here is a very healthy cake that we made for Christmas.
The cake has no eggs, no all-purpose flour, and no butter. And because of the barley flour and the yogurt, the cake turns out to be moist, soft, and can be stored in the fridge for about 4 days. I used barley flakes which I ground to a coarse powder. But you can use barley four itself, if you can get your hands on it. For ease, I ground the barley flakes and tea together.
—Kirti
Ingredients
- For the Cake:
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1/2 cup
Barley Flour
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1 cup
Whole Wheat Flour
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3 tablespoons
Dry Tea Leaves
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3 tablespoons
Light/dark brown sugar
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1 teaspoon
Baking powder (double action)
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1/2 teaspoon
salt
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1 cup
Vegetable Oil
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1.5 cups
Fresh Natural Yogurt
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3 tablespoons
Dark Chocolate Chips
- For the Frosting:
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1/2 cup
Fresh Natural Yogurt
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2 tablespoons
Organic Cherry Preserve
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1 tablespoon
Organic Honey
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 170 C
Grind the tea leaves before you start the process
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In a large bowl, mix in the dry ingredients – both the flours, ground tea leaves, sugar, baking powder and salt.
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In another bowl, whisk up the oil and yogurt till they come together.
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Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, and mix well. The mixture should be consistent by about 30 seconds to a minute. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
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Grease and line a loose-bottom tin, and pour the batter into it.
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Bake for about 28-35 minutes, till a skewer comes out clean.
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For the frosting, combine all the frosting ingredients either by hand or with a whisk, till you get an even mixture.
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Let the cake cool down completely, before you pour the frosting over
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