Raspberry lemon cake – elimination diet, free of eggs, dairy, cocoa, gluten and sugar

Raspberry lemon cake – elimination diet, free of eggs, dairy, cocoa, gluten and sugar

This moist sumptuous raspberry lemon cake is free of eggs, dairy, cocoa, gluten and sugar, so essentially vegan. I had to find a way to have cake on the mind body garden day event I was running last weekend. I am currently on an elimination diet do resolve my very long standing snotty nose and mucus production. If you have been looking at my recipes before you know I have been gluten and sugar free for quite some time- the really hard thing was giving up cocoa, cream and butter- I really like those - a lot. Eggs are hard to give up because they seem so essential for so many recipes. I was glad that I managed to find inspiration for this recipe, I have made it 3 times in the last week, one trial one real deal for the event and then another just because I like the marzipan like texture and the zestiness. If you are are worried about baking...
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Mini black forest layer birthday cakes, gluten and sugar free with stevia

Mini black forest layer birthday cakes, gluten and sugar free with stevia

This years home made birthday cake is based on one of my favourite gateaux's from my child hood. We had no family celebrations without this traditional cake from south germany. I have used the quick and easy moist sponge roulade base recipe and adapted it to be made with cocoa to form the base of my little black forrest layer cakes. This cake actually nearly never happened. I started with cracking the eggs and the 2nd last one of 6 was kind of rotten which I could only see once it had dripped into the already separated egg whites. I thought not problem I have another 6 eggs. I started over on collecting the egg whites and bam just when I nearly had it another wonky egg. I have never had doggy eggs in my entire live - how luck am I? My husband felt very guilty, he had picked those eggs up from the farm just a couple of days back. The lovely...
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Coconut Mango cream tartelettes – gluten and sugar free

Coconut Mango cream tartelettes – gluten and sugar free

  Nice mini version of the Coconut Mango cake, with a crunchy tartelette base. Makes: 4 little tarts Prep time: 20 min Cooking: 25 min at 180 degree celsius   For the gluten free Tart base you need: 70g ground almonds – mixed ground nuts work too. 30g coconut flour 50g quark or Yoghurt (if you don’t want to use dairy you could use the thick separate part of the coconut milk) 30g coconut oil ( you can use other oil if needed) couple of drops vanilla extract 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1-3  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 – you could end up with a huge amount of treat -Don’t have any Stevia yet? – you can always use normal sweetener products until you are set up.   Mix dry ingredients with baking...
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Bulletproof Coffee Jelly Dessert

Bulletproof Coffee Jelly Dessert

I recently found myself having Bulletproof coffee breakfast left over in the morning, I usually make a 1 liter portion. Since I love jellies and custardy type desserts I though rather than throwing it out I'll make a jelly with it. The red coloured tin of Great Lakes unflavoured gelatin will congeal because it has not been hydrolyzed. I use Great Lakes Gelatin because has a unique combination of amino acids in concentrated levels that promotes rapid re-production of blood cells for healing, it is especially great for bone and joint health care. The low molecular weight protein is easily digested which means the body can use it in minutes after ingestion. The gelatin collagen is important for the body's nitrogen balance, further collagen is now considered an anti ageing product as it supports age related cartilage damage and collagen loss. Did you know that the body's natural ability to repair supporting connective tissue (bone, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, skin, hair and nails) begins to diminish after the...
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Wild Blackberry mini paleo crumbles – with stevia

Wild Blackberry mini paleo crumbles – with stevia

Did you notice that along all the foot path around the country the bramble bushes a loaded with blackberries? Most of us do not realise that there is still free food growing wild  in off the beaten path. I love collecting blackberries carrying them home thinking how much money I saved by having fun searching for the best berries along my sunday walk. At this time of year i like making cakes that have seasonal fruit in them, today it is berries. You will notice that the last and the next recipe are very similar because the base of the recipe works for all kind of fruits.   Here you see the mini soufflé pots filled with the batter mass before I added the sugar free crumbles. Yes you can have crunchy, caramelised sugar fee crumbles with Stevia-sweet Baking Granules 1:1.   Makes:  4 small soufflé or muffin moulds Prep time: 20 min Cooking: 20min at 180 degree celsius pre heated oven (middle shelf)   For the batter you need: 2 eggs  Medium...
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