Aunt Rocky’s Orange Cranberry Swirl Cake

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease an 8×8 or 9×9 baking pan. Set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, whisk all of the dry ingredients together to break up any lumps: coconut flour, salt, baking soda, erythritol, and oat fiber.

In a small bowl or measuring cup, melt the butter or coconut oil in the microwave (about 40 seconds). Add melted butter/oil, eggs, orange zest, orange juice, orange extract, and vanilla to the dry ingredients and quickly whisk until well blended. The coconut flour is very thirsty, and the batter will be thick, not runny like a normal cake batter.

Transfer to the baking pan. For the swirl, dollop the cranberry sauce across the top of the cake. Use a spoon or spatula to swirl or fold the cranberry sauce into the batter, but don’t over-mix. You want swirls of cranberry to appear in the cake.

Bake 30–35 minutes. Check with toothpick to be sure center is done before removing from oven. Top will be slightly golden, and will appear very moist due to the butter content.

Serve warm or chilled with topping of choice. Store leftover cake on counter for a couple of days, or in the refrigerator for a week. It can also be frozen, then defrosted on the counter.

Note: The oat fiber is a key ingredient for cake-like texture. If you omit it, the recipe will still work, but the cake will be very dense. I use Lifesource to assure that I have a gluten free oat fiber. If you don’t have issues with gluten, use the least expensive brand you can find.

Nutrition estimates are calculated per serving with My Fitness Pal’s online recipe analyzer. If you make any changes to the ingredients, your results may differ. The recipe is stored there and available to MFP users for logging in their food diaries. I do not include sugar alcohols or liquid sucralose in my nutrition counts, as they are not absorbed by the body and rate zero on the glycemic index.

Calories 154, Total Fat 13 g, Saturated Fat 8 g, Sodium 693 mg, Potassium 38 mg, Total Carbohydrate 5 g, Dietary Fiber 3 g, Net Carbs 2 g, Sugars 2 g, Protein 4 g. Macros: 83% fat, 11% protein, 6% carbs.

© November 28, 2017 Roxana Lopez for Aunt Rocky’s

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