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...
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...
Have you just recently discovered Stevia sweetener, you are unsure how you will be able to make great tasting cakes that are sugar free and turn out to be edible?
I can help, the main thing that you need to understand is that the volume of Sugar in any recipe you want to make needs to be replaced with something else, otherwise you will end up with a dry, solid lump.
This sponge base is a great base recipe to start many baking adventures from. Make sugar free gateaux or muffins, cupcakes or sheet cakes the sky is the limit.
You can decorate it with Coconut mana like I have done in the image above or try my lactose and sugar free "Butter-free Buttercream" made with Coconut oil and natural stevia-sweet extract, good for the gut and the soul. Not too heavy or sweet. Add fruit or nuts and seeds as topping.
Fill it with fresh strawberries and whipped cream or just have it as it is, this recipe...
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)...
Holding up birthday cake traditions with juicy chocolate covered carrot cake.
Last month was my husbands birthday. I had planned to make him a cake as I usually do, this time I went for the carrot cake with chocolate covering. It is a tradition from my childhood, in my family there would be no birthday without a chocolate covered carrot cake! It actually lends itself very well to have candles stuck in it.
Now, I needed to change the traditional receipe slightly to make it gluten free to allow me to have some too, I didn't want to miss out on this yummy treat.
When I looked at the ingredients I actually found that this carrot cake is great for paleo dietary requirements, lots of nuts = healthy fats, eggs = protein, vegetable = fiber, no flour needed. And if one is very serious the chocolate covering can be omitted. For this cake I have used Lindt 85% chocolate to ensure that my husband would definitely like it. Alternatively you can use a 100%...
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