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This

Cake

Is

AMAZING.

I try and eat paleo all the time (that’s another post in itself), and it makes me so sad because I love cake. So much. Until now everything I’ve tried to bake that loosely conforms to the “rules” of paleo has tasted either like a bit of a brick or a combination of wallpaper and baking soda. So pretty much I used to just give up and make evil refined sugar cake.

This cake is AMAZING. So satisfying thanks to the dense almond flour, the coconut gives it a real good crumb, the perfect amount of sweetness (once you eat low carb for a while then you will start to find regular baked goods way too sweet) and best of all made with completely natural ingredients with no refined carbohydrates or nasty vegetable fats. And so easy! One bowl – well two really because you have to melt the butter in something but just whack everything in and mix. You don’t even have to worry about over or under mixing. I actually prefer this to my all time favourite, white sugar and white flour packed banana cake recipe. CRA-ZY.

I’ve adapted this recipe from Paleo Gourmet

3 cups almond flour
1/2 cup desicatted coconut
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
2 tsp raw honey *this amount is up to you. 2 tsp won’t  be enough for some but I recommend starting with it and seeing how you go.
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
80g very dark chocolate chopped or chips (we use lindt 85% or 90%)
4 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/4c raisins or sultanas (optional)

 
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees/180 celcius.  Line a 8″ square tin with baking paper.

In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Mix in the eggs, melted butter, honey, chocolate bits, raisins and vanilla. Add the almond flour, coconut, salt, and baking soda. Mix everything really well.

Bake for 20 to 35 minutes, until the cake is golden brown and springs back to the touch.

I’ve calculated the nutritional info as one cake makes 12 servings which are really very generous servings.

Each piece has 9g of protein, 25g of fat and only 7.5g of sugars. If you’re into calorie counting (you shouldn’t be) – 322 calories per serve. And those sugars are coming from fruit and a touch of natural honey, nothing else.

*Disclaimer – I know a lot of people will consider bananas to be not paleo and yes they are high on sugar/starch, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend eating a ton of them but they are a far better alternative than sugar or any sweetener ever in my books.

Like the title says, stepped on the scales this morning and boom booooom! I fully know that most of it is water, but still, face bloat is gone so that’s all good. I need to get a weight graph on here with no numbers on as my weight is a life secret, even from hubby haha.

I’m loosely doing the Four Hour Body by Tim Ferris. Although I’m doing less carbs as he recommends beans with most meals and I know I just can’t do that and would prefer to eat more fat/protein. I’m doing cheat day 1x a week, Saturday, oh my life, I’m so looking forward to my mocha latte and chocolate croissant and grapes!! Hahah.

What an odd day.. I woke up this morning feeling mega iffy, shaky, feverish and so yuck. So yuck that Jon stayed home and worked from home. It’s pretty rare for me to feel really bad. I had huge problems sleeping last night too.

Reuben is hilarious right now he’s toddling around full speed with a cricket ball in one hand and a car in the other… anyway

I can only assume it’s my body adjusting to this new diet. I’ve had a great day diet wise although oddly I’ve felt kind of hungry all day even though I’ve eaten loads volume wise.

I ate 3 eggs for breakfast this morning. And spinach. 3 eggs sounds like a lot but I dunno it took me a while to eat I guess so didn’t seem too bad. I put the tiniest splash of cream in my coffee today which made me feel quite a lot more human.

What else did I do… Had tuna which was soooooo salty with my salad for lunch.

1 tsp pb snack with coffee

coconut chicken curry for dinner, which was sooo watery and dry chicken. haha. cooking fail. needs more work.

Anyway, I stepped on the scales this afternoon and saw a much lower number than I was expecting especially as it was the afternoon, I normally weigh in the morning and I’d been sittning on my butt all day.

Hopefully my mental fog will lift soon because I’ve literally been struggling to remember what I’m supposed to be doing for the rest of the week, and I’ve had no motivation to do any knitting which is odd because I’ve just been lazing around at home all day. Never ending blanket really is becoming never ending!