Paleo Cinnamon Pecan cookies, gluten and sugar free

Paleo Cinnamon Pecan cookies, gluten and sugar free

    Makes: about 42 cookies Prep time: 20 min, plus 1-2hours for dough to harden in the fridge Cooking: 16min Cooling time: 60min Ingredients: 150g Almond flour 100g Chestnut flour ( you can use Almond flour instead, change the 40g Almond flour for coconut flour) 100g Pecan nuts ground 1 tsp Cinnamon 10g unsweetened Cocoa powder pinch of Salt 70g Stevia-sweet Baking Granules 1:1 200g grass fed Butter - room temperature 1 medium egg 1-2  knife-tips Stevia-sweet 90% powder dissolved in 1 table spoons hot water Whole pecan nuts for decorating   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. Instructions: pre-heat oven to 180 degree celsius mix all dry ingredients together in a large bowl add...
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Paleo butternut squash raisin loaf – sugar free, gluten free

Paleo butternut squash raisin loaf – sugar free, gluten free

  Originally this was meant to be a pumpkin bread, when I tried to get pumpkin I could find any - maybe pumpkins didn't do well this year and there is a shortage? Since butternut squash is similar I just used that instead. I wanted to have the cosy autumn feeling that fresh raisin bread with butter and jam gave me and my family when I was little. Around this time if year/ November yeast breads with raisins are available in every german bakery in various forms. I just made the recipe below up, it is not with yeast but it has the raisins and spices that make me feel warm.   Makes: one small tin loaf Prep time: 20 min (once raisins and butternut squash are ready) Cooking: 55min Cooling time: 60min Ingredients: 50g raisins soaked in water (and 18g amaretto- not essential), best soak for 24hours (if you like lots use more) 375g cooked butternut squash (flesh only- remove seeds and skin) 84g coconut oil melted 6 medium eggs (separately whisk egg whites) 178g Chestnut...
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Carrot cake with stevia – gluten free/ sugar free

Carrot cake with stevia – gluten free/ sugar free

    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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Christmas – Sour Cream Cookie cutter Cookies with Stevia (Sugar + Gluten free)

Christmas – Sour Cream Cookie cutter Cookies with Stevia (Sugar + Gluten free)

Paleo Christmas Cookies with super food toppings, YES you can have christmas treats without the sugar crash after indulging. By sweetening your cookie dough with natural stevia-sweet sweetener, you save calories and make the treat more blood sugar friendly.  Now, you probably think: how am I going to make the biscuits look nice without using icing sugar or other artificial biscuit decorations? I was panicking about that too, especially since I had booked the christmas cookie making Sunday with a friend weeks and weeks back before I had stopped eating gluten and the occasional refined sugar. I have been on a Paleo way of eating for a few weeks now, and I am feeling so good I did not want to wreck all the good work the healthy food has already done for my wellbeing. I put myself under even more pressure by inviting some more girls to join us for the fun. None of my friends had every tried stevia before, so all I could do is hope for an...
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Italian Castagnaccio Chestnut cup cakes

Italian Castagnaccio Chestnut cup cakes

  A gluten free birthday treat for fit and health conscious individuals, sweetened with natural zero calorie stevia sweetener. I came across the Castagnaccio – a traditional Italian dessert cake based on chestnut flour - when looking for a baked birthday gift for my super fit Italian friend Martina; she is from Tuscany, so I thought I'd make her a birthday treat that is from her region since she had to celebrate her birthday in England away from family and friends. The recipe was perfectly suited for what I wanted, it is traditional to Tuscany, has healthy ingredients that are great for any health conscious eater and it's suitable to make in small portions and keeps for a few days as we were going out for food she would have to keep it for later. The chestnut flour cake originating from the Tuscan region uses mainly chestnuts, which represented an important widely available food source for the poor peasants and farmers. Even the other ingredients are all locally...
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