Macrobiotic foods & baking

There is nothing better than healthy baking,

ones in a while.

My children do taste the difference

between butter and healthy oils,

sugar, little sugar and non sugar.

But even though they love the caramel taste of unrefined cane sugar,

I try to use as little

as possible.

Deco (have a look for inspiration!!!) is a well known health cook in Japan

I never heard from her,

but my sweet neighbor Miki

knew all about Macrobiotic cooking

and Deco's kitchen.

When she returned to Japan,

she was kind enough to send me this little cookbook

that I couldn't buy here.

The Banana Cake

dry:

200 ml whole wheat flour

400 ml unbleached wheat flower

1 ½ tbsp Baking Powder

½ tsp Salt

½ tbsp Grain Coffee Powder (i use Lima Yannoh instant Vanilla)

wet:

5 banana's (4 mix, 1 decoration)

50 ml Canola oil (i used rice bran)

150 g silken tofu

100 ml Apple juice

vanilla extract (don't forget!)

Optional (I do to add debt in taste) : Chopped walnuts

Dissolve grain coffee powder in heated apple juice

Puree 4 bananas, remaining wet ingredients and coffee juice

Add wet into mixed dry ingredients and chopped nuts

Decorate with sliced banana

Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees

Cover with aluminum foil and bake for a further 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Note: don't over-bake, it will be very dry.

Next time: 

Brown rice waffles

or Yomogi & Azuki bagle

or

Millet and Coconut Doughnuts?

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