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Our top favourite Aussie sweet treats remade sugar-free! Yup. Lamingtons? Tea cake? Sticky date pudding? Yup, yup, yup.
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It’s no secret that nearly everyone in the Food Daily office is a fan of sweet treats. There’s barely a week that goes by when someone doesn’t bring in a teacake, biscuits, a slice or a sweet loaf for us to enjoy with our morning and afternoon cuppas.
Most of these shared recipes come from our mums and grans, from a time when baking involved multiple cups of sugar, refined flours, and copious amounts of butter and cream. Delicious, yes, but not entirely healthy! So with the help of our friends at Natvia, we’ve re-imagined a few family favourites using nutritious substitutes such as alternate flour blends and Natvia as a sugar replacement.
While still decadent, sweet and delicious, you don’t have to limit yourself to just one slice with these Great Aussie Bakeovers.
The Food Daily Team
3Great Aussie Bakeover
Contents4 Pineapple Carrot Cake
6 Double Chocolate Lamingtons
8 Sticky Date Pudding
10 Pumpkin Scones with Orange Cream
12 Blueberry Cheesecake
14 Yo Yo Biscuits
16 Apple Tea Cake
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Pineapple Carrot CakeSERVES 14 PREP 15 MINS
COOK 50 MINS V
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2 cups wholemeal spelt flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp salt
½ cup Natvia
150g purple carrots, peeled & grated
150g orange carrots, peeled & grated
40g walnuts, chopped
½ cup rice bran oil
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
500g fresh pineapple, cut into 1cm pieces
Icing
5 medjool dates
200g cream cheese
1 tbs milk
8 walnut halves
2 tbs shredded coconut, lightly toasted
1 Preheat oven to 180°C and lightly grease a ring or bundt tin with oil or butter.
2 Sift flours, baking powder, bicarb soda, cinnamon and salt into a medium-sized bowl, then stir through Natvia, carrots and chopped walnuts.
3 Blend together oil, eggs and vanilla in a food processor. Add half of the cut pineapple and blitz a few times. Add the remaining pineapple pieces and stir into flour mixture gently until just combined.
4 Pour into prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
5 To make icing, roughly chop 4 dates and blend with cheese and milk until smooth. Spread on cooled cake and top with remaining thinly sliced date, walnut halves and toasted coconut.
“As a child, Bugs Bunny was my favourite cartoon and he ate... carrots. One
year, on my birthday (I think I was six) my mum made a carrot cake, and
that began a lifelong love affair with carrot
cake… with heaps of icing.”
Mark ChenGeneral Manager, Natvia
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Emily KratzmannWriter, Food Daily
“I used to make lamingtons with my mum when I was a kid. I love that it’s
become a tradition with my own little
family!”
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Double Chocolate Lamingtons
Raspberry chia jam
½ cup raspberries (fresh or frozen)
½ apple, cored & diced
2 tsp lemon juice
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs Natvia
1 tbs chia seeds
Chocolate sponge
¾ cup hazelnut meal
½ cup rice flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
1 ½ tsp baking powder
2/3 cup butter, softened
2 tbs brown rice syrup
3 tbs Natvia
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
Ganache
100g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
¼ cup milk
1 cup shredded coconut
1 To make the jam, place berries, apple, lemon juice, 1 tbs water, ½ tsp vanilla and 1 tbs Natvia in a small saucepan, cover and simmer gently for 5-8 minutes, or until cooked. Blend with a stick blender, then stir through chia seeds and set aside to cool and thicken.
2 Preheat oven to 160°C and line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
3 Combine hazelnut meal, rice flour, cocoa and baking powder in a small bowl.
4 In a separate bowl, cream butter, rice syrup, 3 tbs Natvia and 2 tsp vanilla until smooth. Whisk in eggs one at a time then fold through flour mixture.
5 Pour batter into prepared tin, levelling the top and cook for 25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Set aside to cool.
6 To make the ganache, combine chocolate and milk in a small saucepan over low heat and stir until chocolate has melted.
7 Cut cooled cake into 16 even squares, then cut each piece in half through the middle. Spread a teaspoon of jam in the middle of 16 squares, then sandwich together using remaining halves. Using two skewers or forks, dip cake melted chocolate mix and roll in coconut. Chill before serving.
Energy
963kjCalories
230Protein
3.8gFat
17.3gSat Fat
9.5gCarbs
13.4gSugars
5.8gFibre
4.3g
MAKES 16 PREP 30 MINS COOK 30 MINS V GF
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Sticky Date PuddingSERVES 9 PREP 20 MINS
COOK 35 MINS
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200g medjool dates, chopped
1 tsp bicarb soda
¾ cup plain flour
¾ cup wholemeal spelt flour
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp baking powder
¼ cup Natvia
¼ cup coconut oil, melted
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
Sticky date sauce
100g medjool dates, chopped
400ml coconut cream
1 Preheat oven to 180°C and line the base and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
2 Combine dates and bicarb soda in a small bowl and pour over 1 ½ cups boiling water. Set aside for 15 minutes, then blitz with a stick blender for a few seconds.
NOTE: Don’t overblend, you want to keep some texture.
3 Sift flours, ginger and baking powder into a bowl, returning husks to mixture, then stir through Natvia.
4 Whisk together melted coconut oil, eggs and vanilla until combined, then fold through blended dates and flour.
5 Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake for 35 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
6 Meanwhile, combine remaining 150g dates and coconut cream in a small saucepan and simmer gently for 8 minutes. Using a stick blender, puree until smooth.
7 Pierce pudding all over with a skewer and pour half of the sauce over, then cut cake into 9 even pieces.
8 Return sauce to the stove and continue to simmer for another 5-8 minutes to reduce to a thick sauce. Serve pudding with extra sauce and dollop of Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream, if desired.
Livinia NixonCo-founder, Food Daily
“Sticky date pudding is my favourite as it always ends up being a swirling
mess of melted ice cream and sweet sauce,
all over the pudding. Gastronomic heaven!”
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Michaela NatoliDesigner, Food Daily
“Mum and I adore scones much more than any other
more complicated cake. She never did mind me
making a mess when she knew it was scones I was
looking to make.”
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Pumpkin Scones with Orange Cream
350g butternut pumpkin
2 cups wholemeal spelt flour, plus extra for dusting
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp Natvia
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp salt
60g butter
1 tbs milk, for glazing
1 tbs pumpkin seeds
Orange Cream
250g fresh ricotta
2 tsp granulated stevia blend (we prefer Natvia)
1 orange, zested & juiced
1 Preheat oven to 220°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
2 Remove skin and seeds from pumpkin. Grate 50g and set aside. Cut the remainder into 3cm pieces and steam for 8 minutes or until soft. Transfer to a bowl, mash with a fork and allow to cool.
NOTE: Should make 1 cup of pureed pumpkin.
3 Sift flour, baking powder, Natvia, cinnamon and salt, adding back sifted husks, into a medium-sized bowl. Add butter to dry ingredients and rub in lightly using fingertips until it resembles coarse sand.
4 Using a butter knife, mix through grated pumpkin, then add cold pumpkin puree. Cut this through and gently mix to a soft, sticky dough. Turn dough onto a lightly floured bench and knead gently to form a smooth dough.
NOTE: Don’t over knead or your scones will be tough.
5 Using a flour-dusted rolling pin, very gently roll dough to about 2cm thick then, using a 5cm-diameter scone cutter, make 14 scones. You may need to dip the cutter in flour after each scone, to prevent sticking.
6 Place close together on prepared baking tray, brush tops with milk and scatter over pumpkin seeds, pressing in slightly. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden.
7 To make the orange cream, blitz together ricotta, Natvia, 2 tsp zest and 1 tbs juice using a stick blender. Add only enough juice to loosen the mix to a thick cream consistency.
8 Serve scones warm with orange cream.
Energy
640kjCalories
152.9Protein
4.8gFat
6.6gSat Fat
3.7gCarbs
18.7gSugars
0.6gFibre
2.9g
MAKES 14 PREP 10 MINS COOK 15 MINS V
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Blueberry CheesecakeSERVES 12 PREP 10 MINS
COOK 60 MINS
Energy
960kjCalories
229Protein
9.4gFat
20gSat Fat
11.3gCarbs
4gSugars
3.9gFibre
0.9g
V GF
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Base
1 ½ cups almond meal
1 tbs granulated stevia blend (we prefer Natvia)
3 tbs coconut oil, melted
Filling
500g fresh ricotta
250g cream cheese
¼ cup granulated stevia blend (we prefer Natvia)
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 lemon, zested & juiced
1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)
1 Preheat oven to 160°C, line the base of a springform cake tin with baking paper and lightly grease the sides.
2 To make base, combine almond meal and stevia in a bowl, then stir through melted coconut oil. Press dough into the base of prepared tin and bake for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
3 Process ricotta and cream cheese with stevia, eggs, vanilla, lemon zest and juice until smooth. Pour into cake tin over cooled crust, then scatter over berries, pushing some into the cake.
4 Bake for 50-55 minutes or until firm to the touch. Turn the oven off and leave cake in the oven with the door ajar for an hour.
5 Chill before serving.
“Cheesecake was the first dessert I learned to make in my teens. School friends would
always request it if they were staying over – or
conveniently pop in to say “hello” if they knew I’d made one
for my family!”
Stephanie WadeWriter, Food Daily
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Yo Yo BiscuitsMAKES 12 PREP 10 MINS
COOK 12 MINS
14
V GF DF
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Raspberry chia jam
½ cup raspberries (fresh or frozen)
½ apple, cored & diced
2 tsp lemon juice
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs Natvia
1 tbs chia seeds
Biscuits
½ cup gluten-free plain flour
½ cup brown rice flour
½ cup cornflour
180g coconut oil, melted
⅓ cup Natvia
1 To make the jam, place berries, apple, lemon juice, 1 tbs water, 1 tsp vanilla and 1-2 tbs Natvia in a small saucepan, cover and simmer gently for 5-8 minutes, or until cooked. Roughly blend with a stick blender, then stir through chia seeds and set aside to cool and thicken.
2 Preheat oven to 160°C. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
3 Whisk flours together, making sure everything is evenly distributed and set aside. Add the oil and Natvia and stir until combined, then gently knead to form a dough.
4 Roll mixture into small balls (around the size of a 50 cent coin) and place on prepared tray. This will make 24 halves. Flatten on tray and press down slightly with a fork. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until firm. Cool completely on a wire rack.
5 Sandwich biscuits together using 1 tsp of jam filling (3 tbs in total).
Lou MooneyCo-founder, Food Daily
“We were always off on road trips as kids. This meant lots of stopping in cute country towns
to find the next perfect homemade Yo Yo!”
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Apple Tea CakeSERVES 12 PREP 10 MINS
COOK 30 MINS
Energy
627kjCalories
150Protein
5.3gFat
10.8gSat Fat
4.3gCarbs
8.9gSugars
3.9gFibre
1.6g
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2 Pink Lady apples
1 ⅓ cups almond meal
2/3 cup quinoa flour
½ cup Natvia
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra to dust
¼ tsp salt
2 eggs
½ cup milk
80g butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a springform cake tin with baking paper and grease lightly.
2 Core apples, then cut into quarters and thinly slice. Overlap approximately 12 slices in a fan around the middle of the tin, then arrange the remainder around the outer edge.
3 Combine almond meal, quinoa flour, Natvia, baking powder, bicarb soda, cinnamon and salt in a medium-sized bowl.
4 Blend together eggs, milk, butter and vanilla, then fold through dry ingredients until combined. Gently spoon batter into cake tin, being careful not to move the apples.
5 Bake on the middle shelf for 30-35 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Stand for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack, then sprinkle with a little ground cinnamon (optional). Serve warm or at room temperature.
Laura KalacNutritionist, Food Daily
“My sister and I love to recreate our mum’s classic Apple Tea Cake
recipe, which was a lunchbox staple
growing up. ”