Before the week ends and you go off hopping with the bunnies and hunting for eggs, I gotta share what I made this week for my Dad’s birthday…
It’s been a while since I had pound cake – you know the kind that’s so heavy that it literally feels like it weighs a couple of pounds per slice, the kind you get at the most fabulous weddings, and the old fashioned kind your grandmother used to make… So I decided to do the google and search for a good recipe to use. All the ones I found used lots of white flour, eggs, and white toxic sugar in extraordinary amounts, like 10 eggs and 3 and half cups of sugar in one recipe. You know I wasn’t having any of that. Through some modifications and some experimentation, I did it…I made a pound cake with no white flour, no eggs and no toxic white sugar. Yep, that’s right. And it tasted damn good too. So damn good that I wish I had a piece right now! But it’s all gone into the bellies of my lovely family. Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as they did…
- For Cake:
- 3 tbsp of ground flaxseed + 9 tbsp of warm water
- 2 and ¼ cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 and ⅓ cup of coconut oil or butter
- ¾ cup coconut palm sugar
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup of almond or coconut milk
- For Frosting:
- 3 tbsp coconut oil or butter
- 4 ounces good quality dark chocolate chopped
- 1 cup of powdered sugar (I normally don’t use powerded sugar in my baking so I made my own powdered sugar by grinding coconut palm sugar in my coffee grinder and adding 1 tbsp of arrowroot powder, it still dissolves nicely in the icing without lumps)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and thoroughly grease a loaf pan
- Combine flaxseed and water, mix well in a large bowl, and set aside for 5 mins
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in another bowl
- In the bowl with flaxseed, add sugar, other wet ingredients and mix well
- Slowly incorporate flour mixture (about a half a cup at a time) into liquid mixture
- Pour batter into the greased loaf pan
- Bake for 60 mins, it will be done when a toothpick comes out clean
- Remove from oven and let cool at least 45 minutes (this is important)
- While cake is cooling, melt chocolate and coconut oil on top of the stove using a double boiler
- Once chocolate has melted, remove from heat and add powdered sugar. Whisk mixture well, adding a few tablespoons of water at a time to thin out the icing to desired consistency
- Recipe makes a generous amount of icing, enjoy it all and don’t forget to lick the bowl clean!
To decorate the cake, I used dried pineapple rings. I took a sharp knife and cut out pieces to spell “DAD”…Later we topped the cake with candles… This is a nice alternative to using artificial colors to decorate your cake and a quicker more interesting way to say something on your cake without having to make additional icing.
Have a Great Weekend and Happy Easter!
Food Babe