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Kidney Bean Chocolate Torte Would you rather a bowl of buttered beans?  or a slice of chocolate cake? This cake allows you to have your cake and eat it too. Made with beans and butter basically, it’s a great source of vit k, potassium, and Iron. This Cake is so quick and so delicious. Red kidney beans have many health benefits and contain 15g protein per cup. They have been called “poor mans meat” because they are so closely linked to meat in terms of their nutritional value.  They decrease blood sugar levels and aid in weight loss. They contain a heap of fibre so take it easy… beans, beans good for the heart…and you know the rest… Ingredients: Cake: 1 can drained kidney beans 5 eggs 5ml vanilla extract 1 tsp table salt 6 tbs salted butter 1 cup xylitol 6 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda 3 tbs cocoa nibs/ chopped pistachio nuts (or combination of both for garnish) Icing: 175g salted butter 2 t

This is a fabulous treat. A true indulgence and a real "f#@! You" to a bad week or a boring diet. So here we go Salted Caramel Popcorn: Ingredients: 5 litres popped corn 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup salted butter 1/3 cup golden syrup 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda Pinch of cinnamon Pinch of salt Maldon salt Method: Place all ingredients into a pot and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Boil on high  for about 6 minutes until the mixture bubbles away from the side of the pot in a way. Add in your bicarb and allow it to mix its self ( with the bubbling) do not Stir it in. Pour over your delicious corn and mix in nicely. Place in the oven at 125"C Bake for an hour tossing the corns around every 15 minutes. On the last Stir in sprinkle with Maldon salt. This cuts the sweetness and brings out the caramel flavour. Enjoy these delights with some tea or serve at a kids party. Too bloody delicious and heavily more-ish. *This is not for st

These cakes are surprising delicious. They have no sugar in them and use no flour they are basically a protein peasant dressed up as a chocolate princess for the party. (Forgive the lame analogy, but that's what they are) The cakes may be made into one cake but the cooking time should be increased by about 10 minutes depending on the depth of your baking tin. Ingredients: 3 eggs 200g Xylitol ( this is the sugar replacer) 150g almond flour 1/2 tsp baking soda Pinch salt 50g cocoa powder 2 tsp vanilla  3/4 cup coconut oil 2 tbsp cocoa nibs / chocolate chunks Maldon salt Method: Preheat the oven to 170"C Spray a muffin tray with cooking spray. Sift all dry ingredients together and set aside. Place eggs, sugar, vanilla and coconut oil in one bowl and beat until light. It needs to get bubbly on top so to speak. Fold in dry ingredients.  Sometimes I get lazy and just beat it in. Pout into muffin tray and bake for about 35-40 minutes. Remove from oven and co

So I made these for a high tea baby shower. My sister's actually. Let me tell you these do not take a few minutes. They took me two weeks. I only worked in the evening on them so let's say a week or a long weekend :) they are quite easy to make once you get the hang of them and a heap load of fun in terms of designing your own little styles. This is the finished product.  To start I used a Victoria sponge cake. It's a seriously expensive one to choose but seriously gosh darn delicious. So you can choose nice cupcake cups or just use a muffin tray. It doesn't make a difference. Also don't fill these dudes too much. I did and got some seriously massive mini cakes if you will. But the hats were quite large so it worked out nicely. So here we have the cupcakes covered in blue fondant. Now different countries have different names for icings or 'frosting'... basically this is a glaze type icing not an icing you can make animals and flowers with. I die

Right so people don't want gluten... okay. Nothing worse than hosting a little do and people don't eat anything because this one is off sugar, that one is off gluten and salt. This one is had a baby and is now wanting to shed the baby weight going all out sugar, carb and fat free. Unfortunately cutting out all of the above makes a meal pretty dam horrible, dry and cardboard flavour. That's if your lucky... because cardboard flavour is probably better than no flavour at all. So we need either fat, or sugar or some maltose in our food to give it a little excitement, otherwise we might as well eat air. Carrot cake has always been a firm favourite and is a nice one to make cutting out sugar and carbs because it has those divine little spices in them to give it a bit of a kick. Here is a recipe for a flourless, sugar free carrot cake. Ingredients: 3 large carrots (grate these guys on the chunky side to give the cake a bit of body) 1/2 cup honey 1/cup coconut oil / veg oi

Right so I am going to just say it… I’m bloody tired of Red velvet! I’m tired of the cake, I’m tired of red velvet brownies, I’m tired of red velvet cheese cake and I’m seriously tired of the luminous red coloured cake trying to sell its self as red velvet… it’s a lie and it’s also pretty gross. Red velvet cake is actually a chocolate cake dyed with beetroot. This recipe I’m about to share has the same density of a red velvet cake. I quite like a heavy cake. Iv called these cupcakes white velvets… but when you make them you can call them whatever you want really… strawberry satins… or chocolate silks maybe even lemon lycras’… it’s up to you. Ingredients: 250g butter 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 tbsp corn flour sifted 1 tsp salt 2 ½ cups cake flour 1tsp vanilla 1 cup buttermilk/ inkomazi 1tsp baking soda 1tbsp White vinegar Icing: 1 cup butter/ 250g 400g icing sugar sifted 2ts