Flourless Chocolate Cake from Gimme Some Oven

17 Sunday May 2015

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes

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berry ice cream, chocolate, chocolate dessert, decadent desert, gluten free, gluten free cake recipes, grain free gluten free strawberry tart, lemon tart recipe, paleo, pimping paleo, primal cake recipe, strawberry & blueberry tart

Visiting with my son and his partner in San Francisco. They live in Glen Park and only a few steps away from some pretty tasty and paleoish friendly cafes and restaurants. What a selection of cuisines, on my first day we lunched Thai and dinnered French. Not bad considering I had only arrived at 1pm!

So tonight they are cooking us up a meal at home. Not one to relax in the kitchen, I’ve offered to make dessert. Being on vacation means, something simple, easy to make, totally decadent looking and tasting and preferably chocolate.

And look at what I have found, isn’t perfect? All credit and thanks to Gimme Some Oven.

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Strawberry & Blueberry Custard Tart

02 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by Wendy Hay 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.