thread: Why the fat difference?

  1. #1
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    Jan 2009
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    Why the fat difference?

    Cooked a pudding tonight (cool and rainy here)...
    It was from a Family Circle Classic Essential Puddings Recipe book which has nutritional breakdowns.

    I tossed up between Pineapple upside down cake and Eve Pudding (which is basically plain cake on apples)

    The PUC listed the fat content as 25g/serve and EP 2.8g/serve

    I am confused how this can be so different

    PUC has 125g butter plus 90g for the base bit and 2 eggs. Divide by 8 Serves

    EP has 125g butter and 2 eggs. Divide by 6 serves.

    Yes one has 90g more butter, but there's no way that would make it that much more fat content, could it? Perhaps EP is a typo??

    Or am I missing something???

  2. #2
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    How much sugar does each have?

  3. #3
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    PUC has 3/4 cup, EP has 1/2. PUC has 1 tin of pineapple rings on base. EP has 1.2kg of GS apples on base.

  4. #4

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    Does the PUC have milk in it? Or buttermilk or sour cream?

  5. #5
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    Can you list all the ingredients and the total volume cake each produces?

    Btw- it's not "fat" content that's the real problem. It's sugars. Refined flour converts to sugar as well.

  6. #6
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    Ok....

    Pineapple Upside Down Cake

    90g butter melted
    1/2 cup brown sugar (missed that before)
    can pineapple rings (juice used in cake)
    125g butter
    3/4cup caster sugar
    1 tea vanilla ess
    2 eggs
    1 1/2 cps SR flour
    1/2 cup plain flour
    Oh I am an idiot it's the 1/3 cup coconut!! - see I never put coconut in my recipe and never realised it was in this one!!!

    Just for the sake of the activity.....
    Eve's Pudding
    1.2kg cooking apples steamed in 1 tab water, 2 tabs sugar
    125g butter
    1/2 cup caster sugar
    2eggs
    1 teas vanilla
    1/2 cup milk
    1 1/2 cup SR flour

  7. #7
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    Coconut's good for you.

    It's the extra sugar, the extra butter and probably the coconut

  8. #8
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    I didn't say it wasn't good for me, but it is very high in the fat content, so I realised that plays a big part in it.

  9. #9
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    Either way, they both sounds nice. I prefer apple cake though

  10. #10
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    I made the Eve's one and it was yummy.

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    PUC drool yummo


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  12. #12

    May 2008
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    They both sound yummmm... Now I'm hungry for pudding!

  13. #13
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    I would suggest it could be the serving size.