Chocolate Cake

There's something about Sunday that makes you want to relax and almost imitate the coffee/cafe culture/newspaper in hand kind of day. I thought I would attempt a chocolate cake. I was following a recipe I saw on youtube that seemed simple but wanted to change a few ingredients so it wasn't so nutty. Instead of cashews I used coconut. I also used a little less dried fruit as we don't like things too sweet.
As I went along I really had to adapt the whole thing. In the video they put the ingredients into a vitamix but I knew from experience this wasn't going to work (in the US they seems to have wider jugs). I processed the ingredients in my food processor instead and then blended up a little of the mixture in the vitamix into a sauce to stir through the processed mixture. All in all, I will do my own thing next time but it introduced me to making raw cake so that it comes out like solid chocolate and you can actually cut a nice triangular piece.
raw chocolate cake

Winter Into Spring

It's been a cold winter but at last the snowdrops are here and the crocuses and daffodils are showing face. The sun has been out for the last few days too making the it almost seem like summer with the way the light is getting stronger. This morning however, I woke up to a very frosty and cold misty day.

I put on the flax crackers straight away so they should be ready early evening. For breakfast I had an apple followed by pear and banana custard. For lunch I made a zucchini, carrot and yellow pepper salad, sprinkled with some savoury pumpkin seeds that come out just like roasted seeds. I have also had a few chocolate hearts (well, just preparing for Valentines Day).

I have spent some time getting a slideshow onto this page for you to view my recipe pictures. Some of these recipes will be in my raw food recipe book, due out at the end of March.