A recipe – baby friendly Bara Brith

A recipe – baby friendly Bara Brith

Sugar free baking?

For the last year, I have not had a huge amount of time for baking, partly because of actual lack of time, partly also because since moving temporarily to a much smaller home, even my trusted KMix has been in a cupboard, unused, due to lack of space.

Yet, since little O’s weaning efforts, I have been trying to cook some decent food for him, to educate him to different flavours despite the ‘no salt, no refined sugars’ rule. 

Searching for cake recipes that I could use to make him something nice to munch on, I remembered that I used to love making the British Bake Off book (1st edition) version of Welsh classic fruit cake Bara Brith, which was a virtually fat free cake (as well as egg and dairy free). The only ingredient I needed to replace was the actual sugar!

I also changed the fruit types, so rather than just using vine fruits, I used a mix of large and small dried fruit to include orange, cranberries as well as apricots and dates. Indeed, the sugar was not missed at all!

I used maple syrup to sweeten a little bit and to moisten the dough which is otherwise quite dry (takes ages to actually mix everything up). I did use real tea to infuse the fruit rather than caffeine free, as I figured once cooked it would not affect the little one too much, but I am not sure (bad mum alert!)

This loaf is delicious with a cup of tea, toasted with a layer of jam (for adults only of course) or a layer of butter too. So easy to make! 

Does anyone have any baby friendly recipes to share? Would love to hear more

Bara brith

 

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8 thoughts on “A recipe – baby friendly Bara Brith

    1. He liked it! And indeed, hopefully the tea was fine, I guess I could use caffeine free options like rooibos next time

    1. It is.. and honesly, you don’t miss it. I am on the quest for sugar free recipes now (eg baby friendly).

      1. Thank you for the recipe, I think there is little gain in replacing refined sugar by Maple Syrup since the syrup is essentially liquid sugar, I made it adding a little freshly squeezed orange juice instead of the syrup and daughter loves it.

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