Weigh In Wednesday wk 1

 

Week 1

Lbs lost - 2

So, a slow start then, but at least something has come off. I would say I had been 'good' but not super good. I know from past experience though that sometimes nothing comes off then 4 to 6 lbs can come off at once, so its in for the long haul.

This weeks recipe(s) is for cake. Oscar loves to make cupcakes, its something we do fairly often (and you wondered why I was a wee fatty?). I know the simplest solution is to make them and not eat them, but that's a tall order is it not, besides, healthier treats for all the family are the way to go. I don't really believe in one person in the house half starving themselves and everyone else eating unhealthily. Years of experience have taught me that silly diets or total restriction just does not work. Family healthy eating is the key.

I found a few 'low fat/low calorie' cupcake recipes. Some looked promising and some looked just as unhealthy, (making me wonder what the authors unhealthy cupcakes contained). Here are 3 recipies which looked not too bad. The cook time is pretty much the same for every type of cupcake 15 minutes (ish) in a hot (ish) oven, which is about 180 or 340.

Ingred : 3 Eggs

                        0.5 cup sugar

                        pinch salt

                        0.5 cup cornflour

                        2 tbsp flour

                        1 tsp baking powder

method : Separate eggs, beat whites and salt until stiff. Slowly beat in sugar. Add egg yolks, beat until blended. Sift cornflour , flour and baking powder and fold into the mix. Spoon into cases.

 

Ingred : 180g low fat spread

                        3 eggs

                        100g granulated sugar (silver spoon half sugar)

                        100g self raising flour

Method : Beat the spread and sugar together until pale. Beat in the eggs 1 at a time with a tablespoon of flour. When smooth fold in the remaining flour. Divide into cases.

 

Ingred : 3 eggs

                       120g low fat spread

                       120g sugar

                       160g self raising flour

                       1 tsp baking powder

Method : Cream the sugar and the spread together until pale, sift it the flour and baking powder. Spoon into cases.

 

 

 

These we made using recipe no 2. Cooking with a 2 year old is always a challenge, and with cakes I tend to throw everything into the blender and whiz. The mix was quite runny and spooning it into the tray was very messy, but not impossible. They tasted not bad, just a tad on the eggy side, which I may fix by adding more flour next time. Obviously icing would be overkill (weight watching wise) so we dusted with chocolate powder and popped a posh pearl in the middle.  I would make this recipe again, but like I said, I think 100g of flour just isnt enough.

 p.s. cupcakes is the American name for them, here in Scotland we normally call them fairy cakes. Somehow, low fat fairy cakes seemed to conjure up the wrong image.

 

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Valerie

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