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Donna Hay - Recipes. Food - Recipes : Apple noodle tart with toasted almonds and ginger crème fraîche. Flourless Chocolate Almond Cakes. What is it about celebration that calls for a big, sumptuous dessert?

Flourless Chocolate Almond Cakes

When we first started eating a more natural diet, celebrations were hard: how could we balance our love for whole, nutritious foods with the fact that celebrations tend to involve refined sugar and butter? At the time, I was also recovering from a gall bladder surgery that made it hard for me to digest fats, especially butter. Eating a cake or cookie would usually end in a stomach ache, or worse. Over time, we’ve grown to realize the power of moderation and the special-ness that comes from only using rich ingredients occasionally (luckily my body has gradually learned how to digest them again). Treated with care, these ingredients can be a celebratory treat. Of course, we’ve put our “whole foods” spin on a decadent flourless chocolate cake by including almonds for protein and nutrients, using honey instead of added refined sugar (to compliment the sugar in the chocolate), and creating modest individual portions.

Fallen Chocolate Cake Recipe. Flourless Chocolate Mousse Cake Recipe. Today is the very last Project Pastry Queen challenge.

Flourless Chocolate Mousse Cake Recipe

Over 2 years ago, Ashley and I met up in Austin to attend a cooking demo with The Pastry Queen, Rebecca Rather. I’d forgotten about several great recipes in the book and decided that I’d cook and bake all the way through the book. Flourless Chocolate and Peanut Butter Brownies. No surprise that these bad boys came about to satisfy a ravenous midnight craving and to alleviate a foul cranky mood.

Flourless Chocolate and Peanut Butter Brownies

It seems to happen every month. But there are a few other reasons why you should make these chocolate peanut butter brownies at any time. Flourless Chocolate Cake(Paleo) I grew up in a family that loves to eat.

Flourless Chocolate Cake(Paleo)

Anytime we get together, there is food, and usually in large quantities. This is probably why we all struggle so much with our weight, but that’s another discussion for another time. We have our everyday, “we love to eat”, and then we have VACATION MENTALITY. Growing up, when we went on vacation, all bets were off. We would eat at the best restaurants, and on top of that, we would make a visit to the local grocery store to fill our carts with the food of our dreams. Yammie's Glutenfreedom: Flourless Chocolate Mountain Cake. Greetings my gluten-free friends!

Yammie's Glutenfreedom: Flourless Chocolate Mountain Cake

Today I am here to present you with my most favorite creation of all time... my very own birthday cake! For a few details on the momentous occasion, more photos, and for the alternate recipe which contains dairy, but is still equally gluten-free, check out the post on Yammie's Noshery. Recipe Notes:You may have noticed that the layers at the top of the cake are thicker than the bottom layers. This is because I got tired of baking all the layers and did the final half of the cake in three layers instead of five. Flourless Chocolate Whiskey Cake with Chocolate Whiskey Pudding Sauce - Baker by Nature. No matter what the season – or hot high the temperature rises – there’s no doubt you’ll find me consuming chocolate right and left!

Flourless Chocolate Whiskey Cake with Chocolate Whiskey Pudding Sauce - Baker by Nature

Flourless Chocolate Rum Cake. In ancient Greece, Muses were beautiful goddesses who inspired great creativity in literature, painting, dance, and music.

Flourless Chocolate Rum Cake

A visit from the Muses, along with their gifts of inspiration and genius, were coveted by every artist with a vision. Great poets lusted after the perfect words; artists dreamed of the right shades and subtle tones; and musicians yearned to hear lithe melodies and swelling harmonies. Inspiration was a gift the Muses bestowed upon you, often without warning. Flourless Chocolate Lava Cake for Passover. The chocolate lava cake has got to be one of the most popular desserts to ever hit American dessert menus.

Flourless Chocolate Lava Cake for Passover

The story goes that Jean-George Vongerichten created it in New York, sometime in the 80s. Others claim it goes farther back in history and should be credited to the French. Whoever was the first to pull a chocolate cake from the oven too soon, to discover that it was thoroughly baked on the outside and still warm and gooey on the inside, was a genius. Since the 80s nearly all restaurants have created a version of this cake. Mary's Chocolate Roulade (no flour, Great British Bake Off recipe) - A Mummy Too.

This roulade is flour-free, which means its extremely light in texture, but it has a high cocoa content so it also tastes super rich and delicious.

Mary's Chocolate Roulade (no flour, Great British Bake Off recipe) - A Mummy Too

It’s from the mind of baking genius, Mary Berry, relayed to our kitchen by the wonder of the Great British Bake Off iPhone app, and reproduced with permission. Read on for the recipe. David Lebovitz's Chocolate Orbit Cake (with Blackberry-Cassis Sauce) Ah, the miracles of modern technology.

David Lebovitz's Chocolate Orbit Cake (with Blackberry-Cassis Sauce)

Flourless Chocolate torte with macerated strawberries {Woolworths/Masterchef} The Best Paleo Brownies (Chocolaty Goodness) Have I got a treat for you today. Delicious, fudge-like brownies that are not even bad for you! No sugar, no flour involved. Almond butter is what makes these brownies perfectly dense and chewy. They melt in your mouth when eaten warm right out of the oven. They are also amazing served with some Paleo ice cream, a classic combo. P.S. Paleo Triple Chocolate Mint Brownies Level 3. Paleo Triple Chocolate Mint Brownies You guys. I just made the best Paleo Triple Chocolate Mint Brownies ever.

Triple chocolate? Who makes that? Me. Caramel Apple Coffee Cake (Grain-Free) Only three weeks until my new cookbook, The Grain-Free Family Table, hits shelves! I’m thrilled, nervous, excited, and anxious to share this book with you. Here’s a pic I posted on Instagram featuring some of the book interior. Pictured above: my Fluffy Pancakes, Sautéed Kale with Raisins and Walnuts (a GREAT dish for Thanksgiving!) Calabrian Walnut Cake - Regional Italian Food. Every Tuesday, Italian expat Emiko Davies is taking us on a grand tour of Italy, showing us how to make classic, fiercely regional dishes at home. Today: An essential (and gluten-free!) Walnut cake for your baking repertoire. As walnut cakes go, this must be the most essential of them all. Flourless Browned Butter Brownies {Gluten-Free + Grain-Free} - Top With Cinnamon.

It’s no secret to people who know me that I am a stress-eater. PMS-ing: Time for chocolate. 60 billion pieces of homework due for tomorrow: Give me all of the shortbread please. Exams: Ima cry-eat this brownie. And as a particularly daunting round of exams is looming, it probably won’t be surprising to find me drinking endless mugs of tea alongside all of that food, either. I find it easier to control my insane sugar cravings during these times by trying to bake things which happen to actually make me feel full. And that’s why I often use things like flax seeds and oat flour when baking – the fiber and protein (and healthy fats in the flax seeds) are what keep me satiated so I don’t end up gorging.

Another ingredient akin to those I just mentioned is coconut flour. Flourless Chocolate And Peanut Butter Fudgy Brownies. Sta del-icious! Traditional Spanish almond cake. By Linda Tubby Updated: 21:30 GMT, 20 May 2011 Who needs a holiday when you can cook your own mouthwatering Spanish classics... Serves 10. Grain Free Brownies. In my opinion, the brownie is hands down the most important American contribution to the world of pastries. Coconut Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Sweet Potato Brownies Recipe - DrAxe.com. Gluten-Free Cheesecake Brownies — A Girl Worth Saving.