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March 2022
Baking with Vegetables: 7 Sweet Treats
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hen it comes to baked goods, vegetables aren’t often thought of as a key ingredient. Of course, many of us would choose creamy chocolate over a courgette. However, adding certain vegetables to your cakes or cookies can be both a healthy and delicious alternative to typical ingredients.
Surprisingly, there are a plethora of tasty treats you can make with some leftover veggies. Here we’ll run through 7 sweet treats that you can bake at home and help you to reach your 5 a day. Sounds too good to be true, right?
What Vegetables Can be Used in Sweet Treats?
You’d be surprised how many vegetables can be included in recipes to make delicious desserts. The key is to find typically sweet vegetables, this includes: carrots, courgettes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins!
1. Baking with Carrots
Carrots are a firm favourite amongst bakers. Not only because they’re tasty and offer a lot of versatility, but they’re also highly nutritious. Carrots are packed full of potassium and antioxidants, which are both important to keep us healthy. And while they can’t help you see in the dark, they have also have been linked to improved eye health. With carrots you can make...
Carrot Cake
One of the most obvious cakes to bake with vegetables is a carrot cake. This crowd favourite typically includes grated carrots which add both moisture and sweetness to the cake, as well as a tasty cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake Muffins
A simpler alternative to baking a whole carrot cake is to make some quick carrot cake-inspired muffins. These are lighter than a moist carrot cake, but still include a helping of grated carrots for the health-conscious! If you’re not a big fan of muffins, why not add some frosting to the top to make these into cupcakes?
2. Baking with Courgettes
Courgettes are another great vegetable to bake with. They are a great source of vitamin C as well as potassium and have been linked to healthy digestion. Although an unlikely known vegetable to include in sweet treats, courgettes can deliver some amazing results.
Lemon Courgette Muffins
Paired with the zingy flavours of lemon, courgette muffins are a fresh and light sweet treat that would be great served at summer parties.
Chocolate Courgette Cake
If you fancy more of an indulgent dessert, consider adding chocolate to your grated courgettes. A chocolate courgette cake is both sweet and moist and can be finished off with some vanilla flavoured icing.
3. Baking with Sweet Potatoes
The sweet flavour and soft texture of sweet potato make it the perfect ingredient for baking. Not to mention, they are also rich in both fibre and iron, meaning they can promote gut health and potentially enhance brain function.
Sweet Potato Cheesecake
While a bit of an unusual one, a sweet potato cheesecake is a more nutritious twist on a classic cheesecake and is ideal for an autumnal snack. Simply roast then blend your sweet potatoes to make a puree. It works great in replicating a cheesecake texture.
As a firm favourite during the colder months, the pumpkin had to make the list of vegetable desserts. Pumpkins are rich in vitamin A, as well as antioxidants that can help boost your immunity.
Pumpkin Oat Cookies
What better way to incorporate pumpkin than in some crumbly oat-based cookies? Loaded with oats, chocolate chips and dried cranberries, these cookies are ideal for comfort food.
Pumpkin Brownies
Last on the list of vegetables to bake with is another favourite for chocoholics. Pumpkin brownies incorporate pumpkin puree with melted chocolate to make scrumptiously gooey brownies. They make the most superb winter treat!
And that concludes our favourite veggie-based sweet treats! We hope you enjoy baking with vegetables. If you want to save yourself the work and fancy a quick fix of cake, browse our delightful collection of cakes.
