Chocolate Orange Cake with Mascarpone Cream & Berries – Grain, Gluten & Refined Sugar Free

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

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

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Holidays and visiting family in my household mean loads of primally inspired/paleo cooking & baking. It’s bonus time for me with numerous members of the family introducing new and cooking up old favourites. These holidays are no exception.

Also with a break from the 9-5 hurly burly, there has been also time to change out my blog masthead image. My Chocolate Fudge Cake with Strawberry Cream has stood the test of time. It was one of the first primally inspired cakes I had made and was at the beginning of my food photography passion – all soft blurs (read, out of focus because I hadn’t worked out the focusing thingi on the camera!). So what better time to create a new image that says what this blog is about – paleo with cream!

So here we go – Chocolate Orange Cake with Mascarpone Cream & Berries.

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Nut Alert! It’s a Raw Bar Round Up. Grain-free, Gluten-free and Guilt-free

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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

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It’s time for another round-up, the last one was soup and that was months ago! Well, this one is all about the snacks – nutty, raw and often chocolatey.

I thought of this the other afternoon when I had just three Brazil nuts in my bag. Now I have nothing against Brazil nuts. Indeed I really love them – full of magnesium which we often don’t get enough of and essential for good health. But I have taken to having my Brazil nuts with a couple of squares of my favourite Green and Blacks 85% Dark Organic Chocolate. But I’d run out the night before and so I just had the three sad (but large) nuts. Nice but well, just nuts. So that led me to start thinking that I need to make something a little more tasty and that lead me to thinking about a round-up. Get them all in one place instead of all over the blog!

Raw bars, don’t you love them? They are so tasty, yummy nutty little numbers that are just the right size for that wee bite or two of flavour. A pure energy pick up that is healthy and so guilt free. Continue reading →

Lemon, Honey & Ginger Loaf – Grain & Gluten Free, LCHF

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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I’m definitely a fan of summer – a long hot day at the beach is more my style than the dark, dull, cold wet days of an Auckland winter. But one bonus of having to endure winter is that at this time of the year my little Meyer lemon tree comes up trumps. This year is pretty exceptional and the poor wee tree is so loaded with fruit some of its branches are bending and in danger of snapping right off!

What to do with lemons? Preserving and baking come to mind and I’ll leave Preserved Lemons for another post. So baking it is, something tangy with a hint of sweetness. A tasty treat to have with morning coffee or afternoon tea or eaten warm with whipped cream for dessert? So how about this then?