Chocolate Mouse Gateaux, light and moist sweetened with Stevia

Chocolate Mouse Gateaux, light and moist sweetened with Stevia

by Marie MannNo Comments
This recipe is actually an assembly of two earlier recipes I posted. Both of which I like a lot and together they are just a perfect light summer cake. I made this for my birthday, it was incredible, melts in the mouth, nice moist sponge and very satiating, no need to over eat. I put spare cake in the freezer and had it when I came back from my holiday, it was just as if I had made it fresh. So if you need to have a treat cake in stock for unexpected visitors, this is perfect. It's also easy to make this cake dairy free, just replacing the double cream with coconut milk will make this as close to Paleo as is possible when making cakes.   If you are wondering what my fancy berry decoration is, they are not some kind of weird frankenberry rasberry-strawberry hybrid, even though they look it! They are in fact Strasberries. The Strasberry is a variety of the wild strawberry, with a raspberry-like appearance, originally developed in...
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Kalte Schnauze or Groom’s cake, make it Paleo style – No sugar! use Stevia

Kalte Schnauze or Groom’s cake, make it Paleo style – No sugar! use Stevia

by Marie Mann1 Comment
This very rich chocolate coconut fat cake used to be my sisters favourite when we were little, I used to think it's super dangerous on the waist line. Not anymore! My birthday was up, the big 30, me being Paleo required some birthday cake planning. I remembered that the Kalte Schnautze cake  was a fat laden concoction mainly made with coconut fat, brilliant that works with Paleo I thought and dug out the recipe exchanged ingredients and got to work.  No need to break good paleo habits on a birthday! The cake has no gluten or sugar, I don't see why I would make myself ill on my birthday when I am celebrating a long and happy life. A little bit of background on this very strange cake. The cake seems to be popular in many cultures, probably because it is so easy. You can find it under the name of: Lukullus, Kalte Pracht, Kekstorte, Kalte Torte, Kalte Schnauze, Schwarzer Peter, Kalter Igel, Wandsbeker Speck oder Kellerkuchen. In Italy, they have a  similar...
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Gluten and Sugar free Chocolate Coffe Cupcake with coconut cream frosting – with Stevia

Gluten and Sugar free Chocolate Coffe Cupcake with coconut cream frosting – with Stevia

by Marie MannNo Comments
  Sunday is always a great day to spend some time making home made treats, I like how quick these mini cupcakes are. I used my favourite Paleo friendly sponge cake recipe I recently posted, what I like is that it is super moist and free of all the ingredients that are know to trigger inflammatory processes in the body. Really, the recipe combines all the ingredients that are staples in a Palaeolithic diet and forms a treat that looks deceptively unhealthy. I wanted to see if it is possible to make this dairy free, so I created a coconut milk frosting that is as natural as can be. For dark frosting, add unsweetened cocoa powder and natural stevia-sweet extract, for white just add stevia-sweet to taste and any flavouring as desired. Now looking at the nutrition breakdown below, you may be saying: but most of this  cupcake is fat, yes but it is GOOD fat. I only learned a few months ago that fat is the most important nutrient to Happiness, yes, I useed...
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Sugar and Gluten free pastry blueberry or chocolate tarts with Stevia for tea

Sugar and Gluten free pastry blueberry or chocolate tarts with Stevia for tea

by Marie MannNo Comments
  Sunday blues? -  have tea tartlet's that are nutritiously good for body and soul. Have you switched to a gluten free diet to eliminate inflammation caused by gluten? It can feel like all the nice things you used to be able to eat are now off limits. Luckily you are not alone, there are many very creative gluten free bakers that are happy to share recipes that work. One of the more difficult things to re-create is sweet pastry as it mainly consist of sugar and fat which hold the dough together, gluten free itself is not too difficult as you still have the sugar to keep things sticking together, once you decide that you want to eliminate sugar too it becomes a challenge. I have created a recipe that is based on the quark oil dough mix that is suitable for making tartelettes - it is of course not quite as rigid as the sugar version but it does stay together to eat by hand. IF you do not have Quark (german milk product)...
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Butter-free Buttercream with Coconut oil and Stevia

Butter-free Buttercream with Coconut oil and Stevia

by Marie MannNo Comments
Great all round cake decorating cream, change the flavouring to suit the occasion. This Butter-free Buttercream is Paleo and Lactose intolerance diet friendly. Use it for gateaux or cupcakes, spread it on tray bakes or just spoon it out of the cup. I am using  the mayonaise/ butter cream approach to create this stevia sweetened sugar free creamy dream which will keep you blood sugar levels steady with its  low Carb / No Carb make up. Check out this great  blog post by Mark Sisson on why controlling the carbohydrates/ sugar intake could help you stay healthy and why it is so important to keep the blood sugar levels steady to avoid giving yourself  Type 2 diabetes. Now I should probably also calm you down on the large amount of fat that goes into this recipe, it is good fat! Coconut oil is highly beneficial, I have lots of it every day and I am staying the same, what makes me explode is Carbs, Fat can make you happy and calm. Listen to...
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