Strawberry & Blueberry Custard Tart

02 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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clean eating, Crème Patisserie, gluten free, Grain Free, grain free gluten free strawberry tart, grain free strawberry tart, paleo dessert, pimping paleo, primal recipe, strawberry & blueberry tart, strawberry tart, whole foods

One of my favourite summer tarts of all times is Strawberry Custard tart. I used to enjoy these in the old days; short sweet pastry, sweet custard and sweet strawberries – ahh, there seems to be a similar theme happening here!

Now that I don’t eat or cook with grains or refined sugar I have been thinking about how to repurpose these not so nice ingredients to make a healthy treat for the holiday season.

Well, with a few tweaks to a paleo pastry recipe and some friendly changes to the basic Creme Patisserie recipe my tart desire has been satisfied.

As well, I have a whole family of converts to this tasty dessert as the first tart disappeared in a twink. The second tart made for Christmas day only lasted a bit longer because my son had created his take on the Mixed Berry Cheesecake, so we had two desserts!

I hope you will give this a try and you don’t need to wait for summer. If fresh berries are out of season then use frozen berries.

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Macadamia, Cashew & Apricot Bars

24 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Bliss Balls, Sweets & Treats

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Bliss Balls, cashew nuts, clean eating, coconut, coconut oil, dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, healthy nut bar recipe, macadamia nuts, nut bars, paleo, Primal, raw bar recipe

When you want a quick snack to fill a tiny gap mid afternoon, isn’t it so much better to know exactly what is in your, hopefully, healthy nut bar? Well there are nut bars and there are nut bars – if you know what I mean. Seriously, have you read the list of ingredients (if you can call them that), in a typical nutty snack bar?

So how about these? Inspired by Beyond the Bite; super easy, 6 ingredients whizzed up left in the fridge until set, then wrap and go!

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Lovely Lemon Tart

15 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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almond meal, butter, coconut, cream, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, lemon, lemon tart recipe, paleo, Primal

I read a twitter comment a while back about why do so many Paleo people blog about cookies and cakes. Well that did make me chuckle and my sister and I have this continual conversation. For anyone who is a sugar burner – rather than a fat burner, they may well wonder because isn’t primal/paleo eating all about what cave women/men ate and we don’t think they had ovens then and don’t you just eat meat? Or some other such thing.

What underlies our conversation about cakes, cookies and sweet treats is the wonderment of not being addicted to sweet stuff and the joy of creating something delicious that you can eat and leave. There isn’t that continual call of “eat me, eat me and EAT ME RIGHT NOW” from the cake tin. There is the satisfaction of creating something with half or quarter the amount of sweetness of traditional recipes and using a sweetener than has at least some nutritional merit. There is the intellectual thought gone into changing a recipe from a grain base to a grain free base (and a nut free flakey pastry still elludes me). So anyway I now use the #pimpingpaleo as a general thumbs up and stand proud all you Primal/Paleo cake bloggers! And if anyone has cracked the nut free flakey pastry share that link right now 🙂

So rant of the day is over and I say why wait for desert for this yummy tart. I am sure anytime is a great time for this, slightly sweet, slightly tart, Lovely Lemon Tart!!