Gingerbread Cake & Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes

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banana bread recipe, cream cheese frosting, gingerbread cake, paleo, paleo frosting, Primal, primal cake recipe

I was thinking of making my Banana and Coconut Bread into little cupcakes today. And cup cakes need frosting don’t they? So I went looking for a a recipe for frosting and I came across this yummy looking Gingerbread cake on Paleo Fondue, and better still, it has Cream Cheese frosting! Now I have a dilemma as this cake looks so much more tasty than Banana bread cupcakes. I guess I will probably have to force myself to bake both!

Gingerbread Cake and Maple Cream Cheese Frosting.

Ingredients

For the Gingerbread Cake

½ cup (80g) of packed Coconut Flour
½ cup (64g) of Arrowroot Flour
1 teaspoon of Baking Powder
½ teaspoon of Baking Soda
½ teaspoon of Salt
1½ teaspoon of Ginger Powder
1½ teaspoon of Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon of Nutmeg
Pinch of Cloves
½ cup of Maple Syrup
¼ cup of Molasses
1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
4 Eggs, room temperature
½ cup (100g) of Coconut Oil (softened solid)
¼ cup of Fine Coconut Sugar

For the Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz Cream Cheese, room temperature
4 oz of Softened Butter or Palm Shortening
4 Tablespoons of Maple Syrup
¼ cup of Arrowroot Flour

Now head over and get the instructions here

Orange, Cranberry & Strawberry Muffins

15 Saturday Nov 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes

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almond meal, cranberries, gluten free, Grain Free, muffin recipe, orange, strawberries

Yummy home-baked muffins, not a lot more to say is there really? I found the inspiration for this recipe at Cook Eat Paleo. Lisa’s versions are totally paleo and dairy-free. Me, well I like my paleo with cream, and go for the dairy mostly every time.

So here you go, get to it, they only take 5 minutes to mix up and pretty soon you will a tasty muffin or 6. They are perfect to eat as they are or cut them in half and add a pat of butter, load up with whipped cream or for a richer decadent taste, try a good spoonful of mascarpone cream instead.

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Banana & Coconut Bread

15 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes

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banana, bread, clean eating, coconut, dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, lunch box, Primal

Mid week and I’m thinking that some tasty Banana and Coconut bread will get me through to the end of the week. I first posted this recipe about six months ago, so it’s time to make it again.

Hide this bread as soon as it comes out of the oven, or it will suddenly disappear!

Giving up grains and refined sugar I thought that cakes and bakes were a thing of the past – the old eating. Way too much sugar, not to mention all that wheaty flour; boy was I so wrong!

Baking has now become an interesting challenge. When you work with grain your results are generally pretty predictive. Mix this and this to get that. But working with nut flours and heaps of eggs is a whole different ball game however the result is even better than the food baked the old way.