Name: Healthy Whole Wheat Tea Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 1 /2 kg loaf
Ingredients: 1 1/2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour (Aata); 1 Pinch Baking Soda; 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 1/2 Cup Jaggery (See Notes); 1/4 Cup Butter; 1 Cup Milk; 2 Eggs; 2 tsp Vanilla Essence; 1 1/2 Cups Cut Strawberries

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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.

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I definately didn’t want a cake which I am forced to eat in the name of health.I would rather just eat a cucumber for that.I basically wanted a Utopian 100% whole wheat and 100% Jaggery Cake.

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

Ingredients for Whole Wheat Cake Recipe

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.

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.

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

Variants to this Healthy Whole Wheat 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

Here are some other healthy recipes you will like
Healthy Finger Millet(Ragi) Banana Cake
Whole Grain Banana Bread
Chocolate Quinoa Cake
Ragi Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies