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Beet Chocolate Cake

Beet Chocolate Cake

I adapted this recipe from Elana’s Pantry blog but I adjusted it to skip the agave and grapeseed oil both of which we avoid to only use real food ingredients.  This is a fairly easy grain free cake recipe that also includes beets which are in abundance pretty often here in Central Texas.  It is dense like a flour-less chocolate torte should be and it has an earthiness sweetness from… more

Easy Grain-Free Birthday Cake

Easy Grain-Free Birthday Cake

This recipe is very versatile.  I found it on Comfy Belly blog as a donut/cupcake recipe and made it this week for my 3 year old’s birthday party into frosted mini-cupcakes and round cakes.  All I had to do was adjust the cooking times and make a few double recipes…yes – if you add it all up I made 4 double recipes so that was 48 eggs, 2 lbs of… more

Coconut cake with Maple Buttercream Frosting

I wanted to make a dessert for my book club tonight and I really wanted to make my favorite almond cake.  I realized it isn’t grain free and it has refined sugar so I started looking for almond cake recipes online that were grain and refined sugar free.  I found one that looked really good but I didn’t have enough almond flour on hand (3 cups!).  But the maple buttercream… more