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Healthy Orange Poppyseed Cake GF DF

“Healthy” is a really ambiguous term. People have different definitions of healthy. For some it means going back to the caveman diet – paleo, and for others it might just mean cutting out sugar or gluten. Now look. This cake is a gem. Whatever diet you follow, you can make changes to it so that it can suit you (ha yes you can say this for every recipe but whatever just let it go).

After a few weeks of ‘crappy’ meals a.k.a throwing everything into a pot to steam/boil food (yes thats how I normally cook lol), I/we decided to make something good today, even though its 2 weeks to our finals. Great choice. (I really think it is).

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Paleo Banana Pancakes

Yay! We are finally getting round to posting about food! Today we had Ben and Xin Min over for brunch and we had to think up something quick when we were presented with the challenge of making something without refined sugar! After doing some Googling we came across the 2-ingredient banana pancakes and decided that we could make them with our own twist.

This recipe is quick to prepare and extremely healthy. While our tweaking to the original recipe added many ingredients to the list, the resulting pancakes were light, fluffy and tasted considerably better than the original! We felt that the original recipe had a very odd ratio of bananas to eggs and the batter was rather runny, thus we added almond flour for a denser mixture. We also found that the recipe works better if the batter was ladled into the pan for thicker pancakes rather than thin ones which we found flat (literally) and kinda flimsy.

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