Chickpea cake

[Bluebabe]

Help I have just been told by my consultant that the chickpea cake is 23sins for the whole cake and not the 1/5th of a sin as per the recipe. Can someone clear this up for me please please please. I even had a green dy so that I could eat a few slices. Any advice would be welcomed

Blue babe

 

[jaylou]

You must be using an old recipe.
This is an age old thing, commonly know on here as "food abuse"
Effectively, the chickpeas are being used as a flour substitute - they are not meant to be eaten as a cake, they're not being used as part of a meal, and actually work out as a very high calorie snack. I know we don't do calories, but it's all relative.

So, the chick peas will be taken at the Red day value and synned accordingly.

It's gross anyway!!!

 

[Alycyn1980]

From what I have read elsewhere the Hex's are only HEx's and so free when eaten as that but when you add them to a recipe you need to syn them? Do not hold me to this but what I read. I need some info on this too as I make cakes with HEx's and dont syn the full thing - just the things that needed to be synned!!!! I do not know the ingredients to the Chickpea Cake but if you calcualted them minus the HEx's then you might arrive at the 23syns!!! I will check back to see if this is the case!!!!

 

[jaylou]

Chickpea cake is normally whizzed chick peas, eggs, lemon, sweetener and other flavourings. Not normally healthy extras in it.

It is quite gross :yuk:

 

[Leapfrog]

Aren't chickpeas a HE on red? I have very old information which says 113g boiled weight is a HEXB. Anyway, that doesn't alter the fact that whizzing it in a cake is now considered food abuse, although I believe that humous is OK, as is weetabix cake. Confused

 

[jaylou]

Yep 110g chick peas is a B choice on red. I think the recipe uses a tin full (approx 400g)

I do get confused with it all, but I just ask myself if a "normal, non dieting" person would eat such pretend food, and if the answer is no, then I don't bother!

I can't say I've ever seen a recipe for any of the "cakes" in a magazine or recipe book over the last few years either.