Buckwheat Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

I found this lovely recipe.... somewhere. I TRIED this lovely recipe and I'm thinking buckwheat is gonna become my friend.  :) I was scared to try it, but I did break down and try buckwheat. It is not pretty, but it is good.

This is called cake, I think it is more like brownies.

Buckwheat Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

1 C smooth, natural peanut butter
1 C sugar (I used a stevia/dextrose mixture, no sugar)
1 C apple sauce
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C buckwheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 C cocoa

Mix together the first 5 ingredients with a mixer. Add the remaining ingredients and blend with a spoon, then with mixer on high for about 2 minutes.

Pour into greased 9 x 11 cake pan and bake 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy a slice or two while curled up and reading a book!  :)

Note to self, and anyone else wanting to know: Store in the fridge.

Grain Free Chewy Ginger Cookies

These are.... good. I thought so at any rate, and since I'm the one eating them, I'm the one who counts, right?  LOL

Found this recipe here, at Empowered Sustenance dot com. First time I made them I didn't read the directions quite right, and baked them for 20 minutes. Don't do that! Once I got past the blackened around the edges of the cookies, they tasted good.  : )

Grain Free Chewy Ginger Cookies

• 1 Tbs. grassfed gelatin
• 2 Tbs. coconut oil, melted
• 2 Tbs. unsweetened applesauce
• 2 Tbs. honey
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds, preferably soaked and dehydrated (or .9 oz. by weight nut flour or Sun-Flour)
• 2 Tbs. coconut flour
• Scant 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. Mix together the gelatin, coconut oil, applesauce and honey.
2. Finely grind the sunflower seeds in a coffee grinder for 10-15 seconds, until you have a find powder. Don't over-grind or you will get sunbutter. Stir the ground sunflower seeds, coconut flour and ginger into the gelatin mixture and let sit for 10 minutes to firm up slightly.
3. Before baking, stir in the baking soda and vinegar. Drop by generous teaspoons onto the baking sheet and flatten slightly. Bake until golden, about 12-14 minutes. Remove from the oven and let rest on the baking sheet for a full 20 minutes (do not remove cookies from baking sheet until they have set). The cookies will be "gooey-er" while warm and chewier at room temperature. For best texture, enjoy within a few hours of baking.

Curl up with a good book, cup of coffee or tea, and a few cookies and enjoy!!!   : )

Flax Batter Quick Bread

First off...I found the original recipe for this here. It uses whole wheat flour, which I do not...and I think it's missing some ingredients... such as liquid! 1 egg, 2 egg whites and 1/2 C honey just does not make a batter when mixed with 4 cups of flour. I will post here what I did.

Flax Batter Quick Bread
2 C ground flaxseed
2 C amaranth flour
1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp baking soda
1 egg
2 egg whites
1/4 C honey
Add enough whey and milk to make a pourable batter

Mix ingredients well, pour into well greased loaf pan and bake in oven at 325 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes, until done.

This turned out to be quite good.