Getting a recipe from Google is impossible

[Marthe48]

I wanted to make a low carb, sugar-free, gluten-free apple cake. I looked online for a recipe to follow, but between the life story of the blogger, the ads, and Google moving at fits and starts, it was easier to go get my folder of paper recipes, dig out my sister-in-law's recipe for apple cake, and adapt it. The cake is baked and it looks and smell wonderful!

I'm thinking of making an online cook book of family recipes for Christmas, and if not pictures of the person, at least give them credit. And send to each one so they have the recipe and can ask the contributor any questions

[mahina]

1. Great idea

I agree, many articles are almost impossible to read. Just a moment ago I could barely stay in the text box on a Reuters article on EV chargers.

[Lochloosa]

2. Try Tasty. It's online and I have the app on my phone

https://tasty.co/tag/vegan

Good recipes and a short video on the cooking process. Like 2 min videos.

One good trick is to read the comments on the recipes and see what other people have added or changed.

[ggma]

3. I much prefer a printed recipe for the very reasons you named.

And I love the homemade cook books, I have found some wonderful dishes from other peoples kitchens. Especially like the ones from the church crowds, great family gathering recipes!

gg

[TwilightZone]

4. I have little trouble finding recipes on Google.

I do it quite frequently. I often look for low-fat, relatively-low-calorie alternatives to traditionally high-fat dishes, like baked ziti or fettuccine alfredo. I use an ad-blocker so that problem is automatically solved.

I did a search and the first link was a recipe that seems to fit what you were looking for, followed by several other alternatives.

https://joyfilledeats.com/keto-apple-cake/

That being said, family recipes are often a better alternative anyway.

[Bev54]

9. I get a lot of recipes online as well most of them have a button at the top

that says "jump to the recipe" so you can skip all the nonsense before.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Am I the only one who finds food blogs annoying?

When I want to look at a recipe, I want to look at a recipe. I don’t want to read someone’s life story or have to scroll, scroll, scroll through a thousand “tips” or discussions of what can be substituted or added or how to serve it, etc. etc. all of which needs to be bypassed before the actual recipe appears.

[Nittersing]

8. At least most now include a "jump to recipe" button

No need to read thru all the verbiage.

[Marthe48]

10. Exactly!

Too much extra stuff. I'll talk face to face about food all day, but if I'm online, the website I'm looking at doesn't care if I talk or not. So, please, let me get to it! I'll have to look for the button that lets you jump to recipe.

[woodsprite]

6. I'm building a recipe book for my kids and myself.

The binder my MIL gifted me almost 40 years ago is about to fall apart, so I’m retyping our recipes into a site called “Create My Cookbook”. I priced it out last night and depending on the design, the price would be between $28 for 100 recipes and 20 pictures, wire lay-flat binding. It went up to $48 per book for different binding.

I may break it up into my MIL recipe as in one book and our family and my mother’s/gmoms recipes in another. I was going to do the same with the pictures, look for ones where our relatives were cooking or serving meals. If I couldn’t find one, I’d make a “collage” graphic with a color photo of my recipe made up and combine it with a pic of the relative.

[Marthe48]

11. I typed up all of the recipes I used

several years ago, and sent them as an file attachment to my kids. My daughter is a renal dietitian. When she graduated from college, I made a paper binder for her, with pictures of the people who contributed the recipes. I got them from friends, relatives. My great-grandmother was a Swedish cook and owned her own restaurant. I loved that a tradition of food and cooking in my family moved through the generations and maybe inspired my daughter's choice of career

If I do another recipe book, I'll update it to include the keto recipes, most of which I did get online, and tweaked if I had to.

Hope your cookbook turns out nice It is worth the effort!

[NJCher]

7. I don't use google; I use DuckDuckGo

but I had to try it out (Google) just to see if I had the same miserable search experience and I didn't.

So maybe, marthe, you want to try some other search engines and get an ad blocker.

Anyway using your search terms, I turned up many recipes that fit your requirements.

I also checked Mollie Katzen because I seemed to recall making her recipe for apple cake decades ago. It appears people love this recipe, so I may try it again using almond flour and brown sugar stevia.

https://www.molliekatzen.com/recipes/recipe.php?id=1021

It's a cranapple walnut cake.

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

12. I use google, but go to images

then I pick one that looks good or similar to what I want. I don't find it too cumbersome really. With images you can see the link of where the picture/recipe goes to and you can also use the suggestions at the top of the page for gluten-free/sugar-free specific recipes.

[Sanity Claws]

13. I would love to see your recipe and how you handle gluten-free baking

I don't like the ingredients of the prepared gluten free flour mixes because they don't look that nutritious and usually look for recipes that use oat flour.

Is there a prepared gluten-free mix you like?

I am not a celiac but avoid gluten due to other digestive issues.

[Marthe48]

16. You're in luck!

I used some oat flour today. I processed 1 and 1/4 cups to make a cup of oat flour.

Almond and oat flour apple cake

The recipe I used makes a 9×13 cake. Grease/spray pan bottom and sides, set aside.

Wash, and core 6 apples (about 4 cups) set aside. If you want some crunch, chop larger, less crunch, chop smaller.

Preheat the oven to 325, center rack.

Dry ingredients:
2 cups almond flour
1 cup oat flour
1 mounded Tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1 cup classic monk fruit granulated sweetener

Wet ingredients:
5 eggs, beaten
1 cup of oil (I used about 2/3 cup coconut oil, 2 Tbs butter, 1 Tbs honey, and olive oil to fill to 1 cup)
1 Tbs vanilla extract

Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Crack the eggs into a medium bowl and beat them till all the yolks are broken. Add the oil, honey and vanilla. Mix about 1/3 of the eggs and 1/3 of the chopped apples into the dry ingredients and stir in, then repeat 2 more times, till the eggs and apples are combined with the dry ingredients. It'll be stiff. Let it sit 2 or 3 minutes, then turn into the pan and even out with a spatula. Bake about 45 minutes, until a knife in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack. Cut into 2" squares. About 24 servings.

Anything I bake is from scratch, avoiding processed foods, if I can. I used coconut oil spray and the cake came out clean. I learned that vegetable oil makes me gain weight, but not butter, olive oil or coconut oil. The recipe I adapted calls for a cup of oil. I added a Tbs. of honey to make sure the cake turned out moist enough. Just right

[Sanity Claws]

18. Thanks!

Did you use the honey in addition to the monk fruit sweetener?
I have never used monk fruit. Do you think maple syrup or coconut sugar would work?

[Marthe48]

20. I think other sugar would work

The apples will add moisture and sweetness, so if you use maple syrup, you can use less eggs and leave out the honey, or it might end up soggy.

I tried baking with Stevia and didn't like the aftertaste. I learned about monk fruit crystal form of this sweetener on DU. I think you can get liquid. But I haven't tried that. I'm used to using less sweetener in anything I bake. So far, cutting back to a cup in traditional recipes doesn't affect the texture. I read that WHO listed monk fruit as safe, not a carcinogen.

[More_Cowbell]

14. You can't copyright a recipe

The strict list of ingredients and the basic instructions are not copyrightable. So website creators add the rest of the content, which *is* copyrightable.

That's why you see so much additional stuff in online recipes; people are creating their own content around recipes.

[Marthe48]

17. I didn't know that

I still want to grab and go

[Old Crank]

15. If the recipe doesn't have

A jump to the recipe button I don't bother.

[Baltimike]

19. Man, I love it when I have the answer...

https://www.justthefuckingrecipe.net/

[sorcrow]

21. Jump to recipe is your friend.

Jump to recipe is your friend. Most sites have it. When I search, I try to pick the site that has the most creative name. Seems to work for me.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[justaprogressive]

22. First don't use google.

use duckduckgo.com.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=low+carb%2C+sugar-free%2C+gluten-free+apple+cake+site+cooks.com&atb=v390-1&ia=web

and a recipe for you...yes it's gluten-free

https://www.baking4happiness.com/low-carb-apple-cake.html