BUTTER-FREE HEALTHIER CAKES FOR SPRING SUNSHINE & SHOWERS

With more rain showers forecast to interrupt our enjoyment of spring, these lovely full-sized and mini-cakes are sure to take the sting away.

They offer bags of lip-smacking flavour and wonderful textures, whether delicate and fine-crumbed or a little more substantial but airy.  

They're not difficult to make and the great thing is: by the time some of the cakes are baked and ready, the rain might have stopped and you can take tea outside. 

Al lof these cakes are Butter-Free but not exactly healthy - they are cake, after all.  But in most, sugar has been reduced and wholemeal flour replaces some white...and you won't notice at all. 

Spring Orange Cake

This is the kind of cake that makes people stop in their tracks and marvel after the first bite.  It's deliciously scented but subtle, with flavours that pack a punch.  Rustic but light; it's easy to make and high in good fibre.  You and your guests won't regret making and eating this.  (Adapted from Sky McAlpine)

Chocolate Cake like Grandma made

Much-loved dark rich chocolate cake like Grandma used to make.  Always a favourite.  It's a beautiful tender-crumbed cake that is a taste sensation.  Okay, it contains a shocking amount of sugar but its in proportion to the other ingredients, and it is a cake for many.  The sugar helps the cake retain its moist tenderness for at least a week (if you're lucky!) and it actually tastes better as time goes by.  

Angelic Lemon Mint Cakes

These gorgeous little mini-angel food cakes are inspired by the beautiful Italian-American chef Giada De Laurentis.  And they are exquisitely tasty.  The interiors are tender and fluffy; the tops deliciously crackly. Think they look boring?  Take a bite and savour the magnificent explosion of lemon-mint glaze.  Utterly, unashamedly delightful.  

Vegetarian Orange Surprise Cakes

These vegetarian Orange Surprise Mini-Cakes - not eggs on cakes! - are wonderful for the kids to make and eat.  The 14-year-old tester said they were so light and airy he could eat lots of them, and he thought the amount of sugar was just right.  The fresh orange hidden in the middle of the cakes was a winner.  Butter and egg-free.

PS These are family-sized recipes but 67goingon50 specialises in smaller midi-cakes for singletons or couples.  They come in 5 inch round cake tins and are perfect cooked in a air fryer.  Sadly for fat-phobics they  contain butter but only small amounts.  Pear & walnut is popular but there's a choice of mocha, raspberry almond and carrot.  

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