Love carrot cake, and have had some amazing courgette and elderflower cake. Iced tea, as served in the US, truly is the pits, ( maybe I should have spelt that with a double s)
One of my courgette plants produced very pale, almost white-skinned bulbous fruits this year (instead of the expected slim, dark green ones). They were very unappetizing and bland-tasting cooked in my usual courgette recipes, but they did make good cake.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Although butter contains saturated fats but these fats are heart-healthy while the poly-unsaturated fat (omega 6 fatty acid) in oils are unwanted fats which may cause inflammation, and should be avoided.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
As I am trying to reduce my cholesterol levels, olive oil is a better option for me. I would certainly think that butter is more healthy than spreads with multiple ingredients.
Some oils are healthier than others and they do make for a moist cake. Butter is great in most, but not all cakes but no good for people with dairy allergies or sensitivities. Hydrogenated fats in soft spreads and margarine are the devil's work and seriously unhealthy as well as horrid.
I like to experiment with new recipes for cakes and biscuits but don't want all the calories so I make them for patchwork group and garden club meetings. I even did vegan ones for the garden club's plant fair which is open to the general public. They sold so fast I didn't even get a taste.
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Of course it is. As far as I can tell the oil makes the cake inedible so it's way better for you than one of those cakes that tastes nice and you actually eat. You can keep the inedible cake in a container on the kitchen worktop for at least two weeks too and every time you think you fancy some cake you can look at it and suddenly you no longer feel hungry. It's the perfect diet food.
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Iced tea, as served in the US, truly is the pits, ( maybe I should have spelt that with a double s)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I like to experiment with new recipes for cakes and biscuits but don't want all the calories so I make them for patchwork group and garden club meetings. I even did vegan ones for the garden club's plant fair which is open to the general public. They sold so fast I didn't even get a taste.