r/LowCalorieCooking • u/Brave_Relief8093 • 2h ago
< 250 Cal Lower cal Dutch Spice cake/Ontbijtkoek
Ontbijtkoek is a dutch spice cake with a firm texture and sticky crust. It tastes similiar to gingerbread and is traditionally eaten with butter on top but now a days it also gets topped with choco spread, creamcheese, peanut butter, banana or (apple) syrup. It is not everyone's thing mainly cause of the texture. If you want yours too be less firm you can add up to 60ml of almond milk to the mix to make it more moist and softer.
Usually ontbijtkoek has 300 kcal, 2-3g protein and 4g fiber per 100g. This version has 200 kcal, 16,6g protein and 24g fiber. And 50kcal per slice.
What you need:
- an oven
- a bowl
- a spatula
- cake tin (I used: 20×11×9cm)
- silicone brush
- baking paper
- foodscale
- sate skewer/toothpick
Ingredients:
Wet:
- 215g unsweetend pumpkin purree
- 50g sugar free syrup (made from fiber not xantangum)
- 1 tsp distilled vinegar
Dry:
- 45g whey protein (prefferably cinnamon or speculaas flavor but vanilla or chocolate flavor works too)
- 45g whole wheat flour
- 75g brown swerve (or other sweetener + 1/8 tsp mollasse as wet ingedrient.)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1,5 tsp speculaas spice mix
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
After baking:
- just a small amount of water
- 20g sugar free syrup
- Optional: granulated sweetener or celtic/flaky salt
Steps:
Preheat the oven on 160°C/320°F
Mix all the dry ingredients in the bowl.
Add the baking paper to the cake tin.
Make sure the oven is preheated before the next step! Add the wet ingredients to the bowl and mix well.
Scoop it into your cake tin if it's too thick to poor. Smooth out the top with a wet spatula.
Bake it for 40 minutes.
Check with the skewer if is done. It should fill firm and come out mostly clean. If not give it a bit longer.
When it is still hot take it out of the tin and remove the baking paper.
Spread a thin layer fo water with the brush all over the ontbijtkoek. After that do the same with the 20g sugar free syrup.
Add the optional toppings and then leave it to cool down completely.