SPORTS NUTRITION: Maxim Carbo-Cake

Ingredients: sugar, flour (wheat – soy), modified starch, vegetable fat, pieces of chocolate (5%), cocoa powder (2%), egg powder, milk powder, emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, E472b, E477), raising agent (sodium carbonate, disodium diphosphate), thickener (xanthan gum), salt, flavour, thiamin (vitamin B1).

Before exercise (training):

Prepare the Carbo Cake one day before exercise (see preparation).
Consume 1/3 of the cake up to 2 or 3 hours before exercise.

Before a competition/tournament:
Prepare the Carbo Cake one day before exercise, preferably in the morning.
Slice the cake after it has cooled. Use the Carbo Cake as an addition to your regular meals, so consume the cake between lunch and diner (1/3 cake) and after diner (1/3 cake) the day before competition. Consume on the competition day 1/3 of the cake up to 2 to 3 hours before exercise. This will ensure a maximum energy store at the beginning of your competition.

Note:
Is your competition very early in the morning and are you not used to eating at that time?
Start consuming one portion of the Carbo Cake the day before between breakfast and lunch, consume the second portion between lunch and diner and eat the third and last portion after diner.
This means you have to prepare the Carbo Cake early in the morning or the evening before.


Daily use:
The delicous low fat chocolate cake is also a good product to increase your daily carbohydrate intake.
As a health snack consume 1/6 of the cake between meals.
1/6 Carbo Cake will provide you about 50g of carbohydrates, this equals 3 slices of bread!!

Preparation
How do I prepare a Maxim Carbo Cake?

Put the content (powder) of the packaging in a bowl.
Add 225-250 ml water to the powder.
Mix the powder and the water with a fork or spoon until it makes a nice smooth mixture.
Pour the dough in a greased mould of 20 cm diameter and let the mixture (dough) rest for 10 minutes.
In the mean time preheat the oven at 160° C.
After 10 minutes place plate of the oven in the middle of the oven.
Bake the cake in 40-50 minutes at 160° C.
After 40-50 minutes take out the mould with the warm cake and let it cool.
After cooling slice the cake in 3 or 6 equal parts.
Enjoy the delicious Maxim Carbo Cake!