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

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

by Marie MannNo Comments
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 Cake – Paleo

Coconut Mango Cake – Paleo

by Marie MannNo Comments
  I had forgotten I made this when I looked through my unpublished recipe pictures. Mango will go on my shopping list for this week. Rum-Almond  sponge cake base: Makes: a round 13cm cake that is 5.5cm high – Cut into a layer that suits your base depth. Prep time: 10 min Cooking: 20min at 200 degree celsius Cooling: 1 hour   For the sponge cake base you need: 5 medium eggs 80g ground almonds – mixed ground nuts work too. 60g organic virgin Coconut oil 3 tbsp Rum 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 – 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...
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Strawberry frozen cream layer cake – sugar free

Strawberry frozen cream layer cake – sugar free

by Marie MannNo Comments
Who doesn't like a strawberry gateaux? I can't get enough of strawberries, I dread the season to finish, when the berries you can get are from far far away and the taste is poor. Why can't we have local strawberries all year round - that would be paradise. Did you make any strawberry cakes at all? Which one is you summer staple?   gluten free Quark Sponge Cake: Makes: a round 13cm cake that is 5.5cm high - Cut in 3 layers. Prep time: 15 min Cooking: 40min at 180 degree celsius For the quark-sponge cake base you need: 4 medium eggs (beat egg whites separately first) 40g ground almonds - mixed ground nuts work too. 40g coconut flour 250g Quark 2 tbsp. unsweetened Cocoa powder 1 tbsp. instant coffee (or 1tbsp. strong espresso) 4 tbsp. hot water (for the instant coffee to dissolve) couple of drops Vanilla extract - optional 2-4 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...
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Ferrero Rocher layer cake – Paleo style

Ferrero Rocher layer cake – Paleo style

by Marie MannNo Comments
Ferrero Rocher is one of my favourite candies from the past (pre sugar free life), how could it not be - chocolate and nuts yummy. As you know I like to re-construct my favourite sweets and cakes into a more health promoting version that can comply with a relaxed Paleo lifestyle. This cake here was my Birthday treat, it's not something you would have daily or weekly on a Paleo diet but it can sweeten a special occasion and make your day.   Almond-Chocolate Sponge Cake: Makes: a round 13cm cake that is 5.5cm high - Cut in 3-4 layers and use 2-3 for Ferrero Cake use one layer for Chocolate Mouse Gateaux, light and moist sweetened with Stevia. Prep time: 15 min Cooking: 35-40min at 200 degree celsius For the sponge cake base you need: 4 medium eggs 80g ground almonds - mixed ground nuts work too. 4 tbsp. unsweetened Cocoa powder 50g dark chocolate 60g organic virgin Coconut oil 1 tbsp hot water with 1 tbsp instant coffee- optional! couple...
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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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