Lactose, Gluten, Starch and Sugar free Chocolate Souffle  evening treats

Lactose, Gluten, Starch and Sugar free Chocolate Souffle evening treats

  This recipe is a bit like the super quick Cheese Cake Souffle – sugar and gluten free with the help of Stevia-sweet  but it is totally Lactose free with a fruity Blackcurrant fruit spread centre. It doesn't take much, you just need  2 small ramekins or tea cups, and 5 minutes of preparation and 25min patience, use them to meditate ;-) and build your patience.   Makes: 2 mini ramekins (you can also use tea cups) Prep time: 5 min Cooking: 25 min at 180 degree celsius   You need: 3 Eggs (separated) 2 tbsp Coconut Flour 2 tbsp unsweetened organic Cocoa powder 6 tbsp Water 2 tbsp of Meridian Blackcurrant fruit spread sweetened with grape juice concentrate 1-2  knife-tips Stevia-sweet 90% powder dissolved in 1 table spoons hot water Note: getting the sweetness to the desired level is a matter of trial and error, the best thing is to start with a smaller amount of whatever Stevia you have on hand, it can be ready-use, liquid or tabs (need to be dissolved too), adding more is easier than diluting...
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Chocolate Mouse Gateaux, light and moist sweetened with Stevia

Chocolate Mouse Gateaux, light and moist sweetened with Stevia

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

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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100 percent Chocolate Coconut Manna Confect with Coconut Shavings

100 percent Chocolate Coconut Manna Confect with Coconut Shavings

        A little experimentation making confect with my favourite ingredients: 100% Chocolate, Coconut, Coconut Manna and of cause Stevia-sweet extract. I'll keep this post short and sweet as the making of these treats is very simple, all that is required is a little patience during setting time. Coconut Manna is sweet in itself, so does not require additional sweetening. Use stevia extract powder or liquid to sweeten the chocolate part of the recipe..   Makes: 1/2 sheet black/ white & 1/2 sheet white (approx. 20 portions) Tray size: 27 x 17cm Prep time: 5-15 min Cooling: 20min   You need: 100g Coconut manna (1/3 for coconut manna with dusting, 2/3 for the chocolate layered version) 75g Cocoa liquor/ 100% Chocolate 40g Cocoa Butter 10g coconut rough flakes (for decorating) 1tsp Cocoa Powder unsweetened couple of drops vanilla extract - optional 2 tbsp  Stevia-sweet Fluid Note: getting the sweetness to the desired level is a matter of trial and error, the best thing is to start with a smaller amount of whatever Stevia you have on hand, it can be ready-use, liquid or tabs (need to be dissolved too),...
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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

  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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