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Published: Mar 7, 2018 · Modified: May 1, 2025 by chhavi

Healthy Whole Wheat Tea Cake Recipe

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Whole Wheat Cake Recipe without Refined Sugar or Flour.Healthy cake recipe that you can make for your family easily!

I was looking for a basic 100% Whole Wheat and a 100% Jaggery Cake, a quintessential all rounder  healthy Healthy Whole Wheat Cake, which tastes great, which doesn't feel heavy or lumpy and also which doesn't have the characteristic raw whole wheat taste.

If you are looking for a healthy banana bread, I have you covered with the most amazing but healthy whole wheat banana bread.Do try it.It has no oil or butter!

Healthy Whole Wheat strawberry cake being cut by a knife.
100 % Whole Wheat Jaggery Tea Cake with strawberry

Ingredients for Whole Wheat Cake

Simple Everyday ingredients

  • Whole Wheat Flour/ Aata
  • Baking Soda
  • Baking Powder
  • Un Refined Sugar-Jaggery / Palm Sugar or Coconut Sugar
  • Butter
  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Vanilla Essence
  • Strawberries

Most whole wheat cakes I have had are weirdly sunken in the middle or are way too dry.

If they are good they usually contain corn flour ,which I have nothing against, in fact this cake was supposed to contain it but I couldn't find the box in time and I am not the most patient person on the planet so I just omitted it.

And I am happy I didn't find it cause now I can say that this is a 100 % refined flour free cake.

How to Swap Whole Grain Flour for Refined Flour

Lately, I have been reading a lot of cook books.My favourite being "How to Bake Everything" by Mark Bittman. This book teaches you the distinction between the different flours, on how you need gluten in certain recipes like bread and how to work with and around it.

Here I also learnt how to substitute refined flour with whole wheat flour.

Close up shot of Healthy Whole Wheat strawberry cake
100 % Whole Wheat Jaggery Tea Cake with strawberry

The needs of both flours are different and you cannot blindly swap the two.You have to make adjustments to account for the nature of ingredient you are swapping and that's what I did.Whole wheat flour needs much more moisture than refined flour.Keeping that in mind I have added more milk to this Healthy Whole Wheat Cake because of which its super moist.

Refined Sugar Free Whole Wheat Cake

The other change I have made is with how I incorporated the jaggery.Ideally the white sugar is mixed with the eggs but jaggery tends to have lumps in it and also has a lower melting point so I added the jaggery to the hot milk instead of the eggs.

By doing so the jaggery melted and mixed better in the cake batter instead of being Lumpy and grainy.

For those of you who don't know what jaggery is-It's unprocessed sugar made from sugarcane.Also called palm sugar or Gur. You can use coconut sugar if you can't find jaggery.

Slices of Healthy Whole Wheat strawberry cake
100 % Whole Wheat Jaggery Tea Cake with strawberry

Flavours of Healthy Whole Wheat Tea Cake

This is a basic whole wheat tea cake recipe.You need not stick to adding strawberries to it but can swap them with

  • Chocolate
  • Nuts- Almonds,pistachios,Walnuts
  • Blueberries

This can also be made into muffins or cupcakes but the time will vary according to the size of the muffins.I would say around 15-20 minutes but you need to start watching them at the 10 minute mark.

Refined Sugar Replacements

Jaggery is unprocessed sugar from natural sources.It's usually made with Sugarcane,coconut,dates or Palm.The logic of using jaggery instead of white sugar is the same as using whole grain wheat flour instead of refined flour.

Sugar is empty calories but jaggery which is a much more unrefined form of sugar contains a lot more nutrients and vitamins.

However don't let anything fool you into thinking its lesser calories.It's definitely healthier than white sugar but at the end of the day it's still a lot of calories.

If you dont have Jaggery, use

  • Grated Palm Sugar
  • Coconut Sugar
  • Nolen Gur

How to make Whole Wheat Cake

Step 1: Prep

Prepare and measure your ingredients.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or 400 F.

Line a loaf pan or a round cake pan with baking paper.

Step 2:Make the Batter

Heat the milk on a medium flame.Add the butter and jaggery to it.Let it come to a bubble and switch the heat off.

Let the milk mixture cool slightly while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.

Mix the dry ingredients together - Flour, baking powder, baking soda.

Whisk the eggs and add them slowly to slightly cooled(but still warm) milk mixture.Keep mixing while adding.

Add Vanilla essence and any other additions like strawberries etc.Mix toghether.

Step 3: Bake

Pour the batter in the prepared pan and bake for 30-40 minutes.

Some More healthy dessert recipes for you

Healthy Finger Millet(Ragi) Banana Cake
Whole Grain Banana Bread
Chocolate Quinoa Cake
Ragi Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies

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Healthy Whole Wheat Cake

Healthy Whole Wheat Tea Cake

100 % Healthy Whole Wheat Cake with strawberries.It has no refined flour or refined sugar.
3.84 from 6 votes
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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 10
Calories: 241kcal
Author: Chhavi

Equipment

  • Oven

Ingredients 

  • 1 ½ Cups Whole Wheat Flour Aata
  • 1 Pinch Baking Soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 ½ Cup Jaggery See Notes
  • ¼ Cup Butter
  • 1 Cup Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
  • 1 ½ Cups Cut Strawberries Optional

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees or 365 Degrees F.
  • Heat the milk on medium flame.Add the butter and jaggery to it.Let it come to a bubble and switch the heat off.
  • Let the milk mixture cool.Keep mixing while you prepare the other ingredients.
  • Mix in the baking powder, baking soda and the whole wheat flour in a bowl separetly.
  • Break two eggs in a bowl and whisk.Trickle in the whisked eggs to the hot(but not boiling) milk mixture slowly and fold in.
  • Once the eggs have been folded ,tip over the dry ingredients and fold.
  • Netx,Add 2 teaspoon vanilla essence and the cut strawberries.
  • Pour the batter in a prepared loaf pan.(see notes)
  • Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes till the skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Notes

Sugar* - If you don't like your cakes too sweet you can reduce the amount of Jaggery to 1 cup.But If you have a sweet tooth then I suggest you go for 2 cups
Prepared Pan*- I usually prepare my pans by first oiling them and then lining with butter paper.

Nutrition

Calories: 241kcal | Carbohydrates: 44.4g | Protein: 4.4g | Fat: 6.3g | Saturated Fat: 3.6g | Cholesterol: 47mg | Sodium: 58mg | Fiber: 2.2g | Sugar: 31.4g

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  1. Reva says

    August 02, 2018 at 7:21 am

    5 stars
    Hi Chhavi! The cake looks great will try it soon. Also do you have an eggless version of this cake? Thanks

    Reply
    • foodcow says

      August 02, 2018 at 7:21 am

      Hey Reva..no I don't have an eggless version but I am working on it..?

      Reply
      • Reva says

        August 02, 2018 at 7:23 am

        5 stars
        Ah okay. Your Cinnamon Sugar eggless cake looks good too. Will try that for now 🙂

        Reply
        • foodcow says

          August 02, 2018 at 7:25 am

          It is amazing ??it's my favorite!

          Reply
  2. Sathya Natarajan says

    October 12, 2018 at 4:25 pm

    5 stars
    What is the shelf life of this cake l?

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    • foodcow says

      October 12, 2018 at 4:29 pm

      In the fridge,wrapped tightly in cling wrap, it should last about 4-5 days...outside probably 1-2 days depending on the temperature...

      Reply
  3. Samantha says

    September 14, 2022 at 12:51 pm

    5 stars
    Hi. Could you switch out butter for olive oil?
    Also would chopped apple and cinnamon work?
    Thanks

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    • chhavi says

      September 14, 2022 at 11:45 pm

      Hey Samantha...Apple and cinnamon will work..
      about using olive oil..Olive oil will has a strong taste, i would suggest using a more neutral oil like coconut oil.

      Reply
      • Samantha says

        September 15, 2022 at 1:23 pm

        Wonderful. I shall give it a try thank you.

        Reply

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