I’ve just realised how long it’s been since I last posted. Getting ready for a baby is full on, let me tell you. We’ve spent most of September scouring online sources for good second hand deals (because why spend R10k on a pram when the baby’d be just as happy in a toy wagon?
It might seem like an oxymoron, using healthy and chocolate fondant in the same sentence, but once you get into the swing of it you can make almost any dessert healthy by substituting a few key ingredients. Before I give you the recipe, this is good to time talk about what makes a dessert healthy.
One of the earlier side effects of my pregnancy was an all-consuming, get-out-of-my-way-or-I will-kill-your-firstborn craving for sugar. I even ate random things that I don’t actually like, such as boiled sweets and lollipops (lollipops? Take me back to the late 90’s club scene with a pair of white gloves and a sweetie dummy).
This banana muffin recipe is quick, healthy and super fudgy. Don’t make if your pastry dream includes light, airy muffins twinkle-toeing through fluffy clouds. All you’ll be left with is a batch of small boulders and a broken heart. But if you like banana and you like fudge, then these are for you.
I officially have a baby bump. It’s not very big and if you didn’t know, you could be forgiven for thinking I’d gone into a chocolate shop and come out packing. But it’s there, and my jeans are getting tight. It’s a weird sensation to eat lunch and feel three times as full as you should because your pants are like, dude hey, what’s with the crowding?
I love a biscuit and a cup of tea. Ok, that’s a lie – I way prefer chocolate and dark roasted coffee – but because I don’t like the idea of never sleeping again, I can’t have that every night. Tea and biscuits it is. I’m always on the hunt for a good biscuit recipe, sugar and wheat free, of course.
Every now and then, I make something that makes me feel like a rock star. Not because I rate it as off-the-charts amazing – I’ve learnt to contain my reactions to my own baking until I’ve tested it on a human guinea pig, so as to avoid potential humiliation when they shrug their shoulders in a mediocre ‘eh’.
What makes a pancake a pancake and thus not a flapjack? To answer this most divisive of questions, I turned to the most obvious source of validation in the 21st century – instagram. For what is collective social definition if not a hashtag?
I named these fluff cakes because when you make them right, they are light, airy and fluffy – like the cake version of a poodle. If I’m honest though, I’ve only managed to get them like that once. The rest of the time they’ve come out like normal cookies.
Recently I discovered how to make bircher muesli, or Breakfast for the Unashamedly Lazy. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for many reasons – it boosts your metabolism for meals ahead, balances blood sugar, yada yada nutrition lecture.
Guess what today is? It’s National Chocolate Cake Day! And as luck would have it, I have a great story – and cake – to compliment this most gluttonous of days. My friend Claire from Full Circle Wellness hasn’t been very well this week (oh, the nose wrinkling irony if it!).
The first time I heard the term vegan cheesecake, I thought it was a joke. Vegans don’t eat cheese and let’s be clear – in my book, nothing can replace cheese. I’m largely dairy free so I don’t eat loads of it, but when I do it must be the real deal. secakes
I’ve just realised how long it’s been since I last posted. Getting ready for a baby is full on, let me tell you. We’ve spent most of September scouring online sources for good second hand deals (because why spend R10k on a pram when the baby’d be just as happy in a toy wagon?
It might seem like an oxymoron, using healthy and chocolate fondant in the same sentence, but once you get into the swing of it you can make almost any dessert healthy by substituting a few key ingredients. Before I give you the recipe, this is good to time talk about what makes a dessert healthy.
One of the earlier side effects of my pregnancy was an all-consuming, get-out-of-my-way-or-I will-kill-your-firstborn craving for sugar. I even ate random things that I don’t actually like, such as boiled sweets and lollipops (lollipops? Take me back to the late 90’s club scene with a pair of white gloves and a sweetie dummy).
This banana muffin recipe is quick, healthy and super fudgy. Don’t make if your pastry dream includes light, airy muffins twinkle-toeing through fluffy clouds. All you’ll be left with is a batch of small boulders and a broken heart. But if you like banana and you like fudge, then these are for you.
I officially have a baby bump. It’s not very big and if you didn’t know, you could be forgiven for thinking I’d gone into a chocolate shop and come out packing. But it’s there, and my jeans are getting tight. It’s a weird sensation to eat lunch and feel three times as full as you should because your pants are like, dude hey, what’s with the crowding?
I love a biscuit and a cup of tea. Ok, that’s a lie – I way prefer chocolate and dark roasted coffee – but because I don’t like the idea of never sleeping again, I can’t have that every night. Tea and biscuits it is. I’m always on the hunt for a good biscuit recipe, sugar and wheat free, of course.
Every now and then, I make something that makes me feel like a rock star. Not because I rate it as off-the-charts amazing – I’ve learnt to contain my reactions to my own baking until I’ve tested it on a human guinea pig, so as to avoid potential humiliation when they shrug their shoulders in a mediocre ‘eh’.
What makes a pancake a pancake and thus not a flapjack? To answer this most divisive of questions, I turned to the most obvious source of validation in the 21st century – instagram. For what is collective social definition if not a hashtag?
I named these fluff cakes because when you make them right, they are light, airy and fluffy – like the cake version of a poodle. If I’m honest though, I’ve only managed to get them like that once. The rest of the time they’ve come out like normal cookies.
Recently I discovered how to make bircher muesli, or Breakfast for the Unashamedly Lazy. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for many reasons – it boosts your metabolism for meals ahead, balances blood sugar, yada yada nutrition lecture.
Guess what today is? It’s National Chocolate Cake Day! And as luck would have it, I have a great story – and cake – to compliment this most gluttonous of days. My friend Claire from Full Circle Wellness hasn’t been very well this week (oh, the nose wrinkling irony if it!).
The first time I heard the term vegan cheesecake, I thought it was a joke. Vegans don’t eat cheese and let’s be clear – in my book, nothing can replace cheese. I’m largely dairy free so I don’t eat loads of it, but when I do it must be the real deal. secakes
