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Vegan Fudge Cake

3/26/2019

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Who doesn't LOVE chocolate!?  I've always been a chocolate lover and when I was diagnosed with Lyme I thought I would have to give up chocolate for good!  The good news is that I really only gave it up for a year, and I found healthy ways to eat chocolate in small proportions so it doesn't make me sick!

This chocolate cake was a hit for my whole family and it's completely organic, refined-sugar free, AND vegan!  Yep, that's right!  No animal products in this cake!  I also have found in my healthy baking pursuit that it's really difficult to make healthy cakes that aren't super dry, but I've FINALLY mastered a refined sugar-free recipe that is super moist and very fudgy on the inside!  Even the glaze is sugar free and it adds the final finishing touch to this beautiful cake!  I also used cacao powder in this recipe instead of cocoa.  Cacao is considered a super food and helps boost your mood and your immune system!  Eating chocolate in the right amounts can be good for your body!  What a relief!! 

Vegan Fudge Cake!

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Ingredients:
2 cups coconut milk
2 Tbs. apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup raw honey
1/2 organic maple syrup
2/3 cup organic grapeseed oil
2 Tbs. pure vanilla extract (Yes that's correct!  Bring on the flavor!)
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
2 cups whole wheat bread flour
2/3 cup cacao powder (sifted)
2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 tsp. salt

Chocolate Glaze:
2 Tbs. coconut oil, melted (or if you don't mind it not being vegan you can use organic butter)
1/4 cup powdered Lakanto sweetener
1 Tbs. cacao powder
2-3 Tbs. coconut milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.  Prepare your bunt pan.  The secret to a bunt cake that doesn't stick is using organic, grass-fed butter.  But since we're going vegan here, you can also grease your pan with coconut oil, and the coat it in flour as well.
  2. In a large glass measuring cup, mix milk and vinegar.  Set it aside for about two minutes.  This mixture makes vegan buttermilk!
  3. Mix sweeteners, oil, and vanilla in a medium bowl, and whisk together by hand.  Add your vegan buttermilk and whisk until well combined.
  4. In a large bowl, combine flours, cacao powder, baking soda, and salt until combined.
  5. Pour milk mixture over the top of your dry mixture and beat with a hand mixer until smooth.
  6. Pour batter into bunt pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  7. Allow cake to cool for about 30 mins.  Remove from bunt pan.
  8. For the glaze, whisk all ingredients together and pour glaze over the top of a completely cooled cake.
  9. Slice and enjoy!

*Use organic ingredients when feasible.
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Chocolate Zucchini Sheet Cake

7/26/2018

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This sheet cake is brought to you by my incredible sister, Megan Dalton, who has been cooking, eating, and feeding her family clean, whole food for years!  Megan is a wife and mother of two children, and loves creating delicious masterpieces in her kitchen!  She cooks organic, refined sugar-free in all of her recipes and she lives and believes the core concept that eating healthy is an essential part of having a healthy and happy family!  Megan is also proof that it is possible to raise a family and be able to afford, cook, and feed your family whole, clean, and organic foods.  Megan is an inspiration to many of the mom's out there who feel like eating healthy is unreachable in the busy life of motherhood.  Well folks, it's possible, and this delicious sheet cake, comes straight from Megan's kitchen!  
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This recipe combines the health benefits of zucchini, and the sweet taste of chocolate into one fantastic sheet cake that is perfect for parties, or large gatherings!  This cake is the perfect amount of sweetness!  It's super moist and melts in your mouth!  It's made with all organic ingredients and is refined-sugar free!  Chocolate cake that feeds your body with proper nutrients?!  Does that even exist!?  Yes it does!  Let this sheet cake take your taste buds to chocolate heaven!    

Chocolate Zucchini Sheet Cake

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Ingredients:

Cake:

1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/2 cup buttermilk or coconut milk w/lemon 
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup classic Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener
1/4 cup cocoa powder (heaping)
2-3 bananas
1 3/4 cups flour (preferably whole wheat)
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups grated zucchini

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup powdered Lakanto
4 Tbs. cocoa powder (heaping)
6 Tbs. coconut milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
dash of salt
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)

Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 350°
  • Sift sugar, flour, cocoa, salt, and soda together in medium bowl and stir until combined.  Set aside.
  • Grate 2 cups zucchini.  Set aside.
  • Mix eggs, milk, and vanilla in large bowl.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient and stir until well combined.
  • Add mashed bananas to butter and then add to the mixture.  Stir until well combined.
  • Add zucchini and mix by hand.  DO NOT over-mix!
  • Bake 20-22 minutes in a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
  • Make icing while waiting: Combine icing ingredients and whip together in stand mixer.
  • Remove cake from the oven and pour chocolate frosting over cake immediately.
  • Top with nuts and let cool.
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Orange Cream Cake

4/30/2018

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This week was my mother's birthday, and so I needed a good birthday cake recipe!  So, the orange cream cake was born!! :D

My mom has been a Lyme warrior practically her entire life, and we have fought the Lyme battle side by side for many years now.  My mother is a beautiful and incredible woman, and so I wanted a cake that was just as beautiful and amazing as her!
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This cake is easy to make, refined sugar free, and made with whole wheat flour!  It just the perfect taste of orange and is absolutely beautiful and perfect for any special occasion! 

Orange Cream Cake

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Cake:
1/3 Cup butter
1/3 Cup palm shortening
2 tsp (or about one orange's worth) grated orange rind
3/4 Cup golden Monk Fruit sweetener
1/2 Cup raw honey
3 eggs
2 1/2 Cups whole wheat bread flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 Cup fresh squeezed orange juice 
1 tsp organic orange flavoring (or 2-4 drops of orange essential oil)
Frosting:
1 Cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 Cup organic maple syrup (or more depending on desired sweetness)
1 Tbs. vanilla extract
2 tsp. organic orange flavoring
orange zest and orange slices (optional for decoration)
Directions
  1. Cream together butter, palm shortening, and orange rind.
  2. Gradually add sweeteners until well combined and fluffy.
  3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  4. Continue beating for about three minutes or until light and fluffy.
  5. Mix together dry ingredients and then add alternately with orange juice to creamed mixture.
  6. Add orange flavoring or orange essential oil.
  7. Beat until combined.
  8. Line two 8 inch round pans with parchment paper and grease sides with grass-fed butter.
  9. Pour batter evenly in pans and bake at 350° for 25-30 mins or until toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean.
  10. Cool for 20 mins and then remove from pans.
  11. Let cool COMPLETELY before frosting!
  12. For frosting whip all ingredients together until stiff peaks form.
  13. Frost with orange cream frosting to your desired look and top with orange slices and orange zest if desired.
  14. Store in refrigerator.
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