Recipes from East Tennessee Lunch Bunch

This recipe came from one of my dear friends in East Tennessee. Recently we went to the Gatlinburg are of Tennessee for a get together with several weight loss surgery friends. This was one of numerous attempts at starting a Lunch Bunch Support Group in the East. Above is the group picture of all that were in attendance that day.

Marilyn and Ron were our host, and also the ones who made these delicious recipes! Hope you enjoy!

No Sugar Added Fresh Apple Cake

Ingredients

3 eggs

1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup canola oil

2 cups Nature's Crystals sugar substitute (Splenda will NOT work)

1 1/4 cups low carb flour (I use almond flour)

1 1/4 cups self rising flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 large apples, cored and grated (I use Granny Smith and grate them in food processor)

1 1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts

1/4 cup I can't Believe its not Butter

1/2 cup Nature's Crystals Brown Sugar Substitute

1/3 cup skim milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pam or Baker's Secret a rectangular pan or bundt pan. Blend eggs, applesauce, oil and white Nature's Crystals until creamy. Mix baking powder, soda and salt into almond flour and then into self rising flour and add to batter a little at a time. Batter will be very stiff. Fold in apples and 1 cup nuts.

Bake for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Let cool 30 minutes, then remove from pan if a bundt pan was used.

Topping:Melt the I Can't Believe its not Butter, the brown sugar substitute, and the skim milk in a saucepan over high heat. Bring to boil for 2 minutes, add remaining nuts and boil another minute. Pour over cooled cake.

Nutrition

18 servings

202 calories per serving

12 g fat

12 g carbs

6 g protein

Sugar Free Bread Pudding

1 1/4 loaves French or Italian bread without seeds

6 eggs-room temperature

3/4 cup Natures Crystals (Splenda will NOT work)

1 1/2 cups skim milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Tear bread into bite size pieces early in day and allow to sit in air stirring every once in a while so that all the bread gets dry. Spray Pam in a large rectangular pan. After bread has dried out, slowly pour milk over it until saturated. Add sugar substitute. Add eggs and mix with a spoon. It is important that the eggs are room temp and that you do not mix with a mixer. Once eggs are incorporated, pour batter into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees for about an hour. It will puff up like a soufflé. While baking make sauce of your choice. Serve

Sauce

1/2 cup I can't Believe its not butter

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup Nature's Crystals Powdered sugar substitute

1 egg

Directions

Melt butters in saucepan, add sugar substitute and cook, stirring for 2 minutes. Beat egg in another pan. While whisking egg, slowly add a little of the hot sauce to temper eggs and prevent them from scrambling, then return all to the pan and cook for another minute.

White Chocolate Sauce add 3 pumps of DaVinci Sugar Free White Chocolate syrup.

Praline Sauce add 2 pumps of DaVinci Sugar Free Praline Syrup and 1 pump DaVinci Sugar Free Caramel Syrup and 1/2 cup chopped pecans.

Cinnamon Dolce Sauce, add 2 pumps sugar free cinnamon syrup and 1 pump toasted marshmallow syrup.

Nutrition

White Chocolate Sauce

16 servings-2 Tablespoons

226 calories

12 g fat

20 g carbs

7 g protein(with 2 tablespoon praline sauce)

Praline Sauce

16 servings-2 Tablespoons

247 calories

14 g fat

20 g carbs

7 g protein