Healthy cake alert! Bake nutritionist Emma Bardwell’s lemon and blueberry loaf, with 9g protein in every slice
Let them eat cake – but do make it a high-protein healthy cake. Here’s one to try and, we can confirm, it’s delicious
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Are you on a constant quest to eat more protein? Who isn’t at the moment, quite frankly. It’s something that no-nonsense nutritionist and Get The Gloss expert Emma Bardwell is big on – her new eating plan and recipe book The 30g Plan: How to eat more protein, fibre and plants to lose weight and feel great (Vermillion, £13.35) is a deep dive into exactly that, alongside urging us to up our fibre intakes.
We’re big fans of Bardwell’s recipes here – her harissa chickpeas with pan-fried salmon and lentil and mushroom ragu are on heavy rotation at dinner time round these parts.
But sometimes you just fancy a slice of cake, don’t you? This tasty little number comes with added health benefits – a decent 9g protein per slice, 3g fibre and lashings of antioxidant-rich berries. Quick, go put the oven on…
Emma Bardwell’s lemon, blueberry and poppy seed loaf
Protein 9g, fibre 3g, 185kcal per portion
Serves 9
- 200g 0% Greek or soya yoghurt
- 50g peanut butter
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp milk of choice
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 150g oat flour (simply pulse regular oats in a blender or food processor)
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
- 50g ground almonds
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 200g fresh or frozen blueberries
Preheat oven to 180°C (160° fan).
Mix the yoghurt, peanut butter, maple syrup, eggs, milk, lemon juice and vanilla in a large bowl.
Add the ground oats, ground almonds, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and combine to make a batter.
After folding in the blueberries, spoon the mixture into a loaf tin lined with baking paper.
Bake uncovered for 15 minutes, then cover with foil or baking paper and bake for another 30–40 minutes. Allow to cool before slicing. Delicious with a big dollop of yoghurt and some extra berries.
Extracted from The 30g Plan (Vermillion, £13.35) by Emma Bardwell
