Sugarfree carob berries cake

Looking for new diet cake recipes? This one doesn't feel diet at all.
It is fluffy and rich with lots of flavor.
Since it has the strong flavor of carob you don't feel the stevia and since it is carob and not cacao it doesn't make the dough even more bitter.
My son is very picky about what he enjoys and he actually repeated a slice, so... it was an success.

Ingredients (for a small cake, double if you are hungry):

Dough:
5 eggs
4 table spoons flour
1 table spoon carob
15 cubes stevia
1 tea spoon baking yeast
1 table spoon rum

Rough frosting:
150gr frozen berries
2 table spoons maple syrup

Mix the egg yolks with the stevia until it thickens. Add the rum, the carob and the baking yeast.
Beat the egg whites until stiff and then incorporate the flour and the previous mix.
Put the though on a form to take to the oven on 180 degrees for 30min.

While the cake is baking put the frozen berries and the syrup on a pan under low heat. Let it cook until the berries burst and the sauce thickens.

Lactosefree Cheese cake

Ingredients:

• Feeling:
• 500gr cashews (raw unsalted)
• 1 jello sheet (use agar agar for a vegan version)
• 125gr soy cream
• 150ml maple syrup
• Base:
• 1 package MilkFree Pettit beurre cookies (can use oreo without the filling, which are also milk free)
• 125gr room temperature soy-butter (for a more nut-lover experience use peanut butter instead)
• Topping:
• 200gr frozen red fruits
• 4 table spoons of sugar

Put the fruits in a pan with the sugar at medium high heat and keep moving it with a spoon so it doesn't caramelize and stick to the base. When the fruits have all but dissolved you have cooked it enough an it is time to let it rest and cool down.

Put the cookies in the blender and ground them until they are thin as thick bread flour. Add the butter and blend once more until uniform. Put this into the cheese-cake form and press it against the bottom until it is uniformly dense and thick.

Boil the cashews in water until soft (about 5 min), then remove the water and let them dry over a kitchen cloth.
Soak the jello sheet in warm soy-cream until it is ready to dissolve.
Put the cashews on a blender until you have a smooth dense paste.
Add the soy cream to the maple syrup and the cashews on a bowl and mix with a spoon.
Taste the paste to see if it agrees with your sweet-tooth, otherwise add some more syrup.
Drop this white silky mixture to the cheese-cake form over the cookie base.
Spread the sugar fruit topping on top, gently because the cashew mix is not yet tough.
Should be perfect after a few hours (>3h) on the fridge.

original recipe 

Sugarfree cacao-carob muffins

This recipe is so easy and it is always a struggle to find a nice healthy snack when you are in diet.
For those times of craving chocolate this is an amazing recipe.
These muffins have a strong dark chocolate flavor and the resins cut the bitterness with a sweet acidity.

Ingredients:

• 1 + 1/2 cups (190gr) flour
• 1 teaspoon backing powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup (60gr) cacao powder
• 1/2 cup (60gr) carob powder
• 1 cup (300gr) Greek yogurt
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup (85gr) honey
• 1/2 cup (120ml) milk
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 large eggs

Recipe:
Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
Mix in a large bowl all ingredients with the help of a mixer.
Put in small muffin forms and into the oven for about 30min.

I am still trying to improve this recipe to make the muffins fluffier, if you have suggestions please add on the comments.

original recipe

Sugar-free Crepes

My diet is going great but some times I still dream of eating my favorites... so I keep testing on my original recipes and I must say, although these crepes are not as sweet as the original it worked just as well. As a filling, my family could use traditional marmalade on it while I used maple syrup or honey. There is not enough of syrup or stevia on the dough to actually change the flavor and that for me is the big win. Enjoy:

Dough:

• 275gr flour
• 7.5 dl milk
• 6 eggs
• 3 table spoons maple syrup
• 15gr stevia
• pinch of salt

Suggestions of sugar-free fillings:

• Strawberries
• Blue berries
• Honey with almonds
• Maple Syrup
• Banana with maple syrup

Put all ingredients in a blender and let it rest for about 10min.
Use a large non-stick frying pan (or a specialized electro) you spread butter on with the help of a kitchen paper.
Spread the dough and once holes start showing up it might be ready to flip. Use a spatula to check the down side, if it looks darker with crevices and dots it is ready to flip. This is what the downside should look like:

 The other side should cook until looking like this:

 Once it is done add the filling to one of the diagonals and fold it in two:

 Then roll it all the way so you get something like:

Happy new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

It is 2019 and I want to share a bit with you, but I must advertise that this will be a long boring personal conversation with minimum interest to most healthy people.

As an old year ends and another one starts full of possibilities I tend to make some resolutions. This year I am past the 9 months after the birth of my little girl and still 10Kg above weight, so I am determined to tackle that (among other resolutions that don't fall on the scope of this blog 😜 ). The last time this happened (yes, she is the second) it worked out to just cut on all refined sugar.

Whether it is the general definition used or my abuse of language I include in "refined sugar" all fast sugars that have been processed, that includes powder sugar, regular refined sugar, brown sugar and moscavado sugar but it does not include honey, fruits and maple syrup. Also since stevia is hardly a sugar I am allowing it exceptionally when nothing else works. This doesn't mean sugar-free pops, it means water instead or tonic water. This doesn't mean diet section foods, it means crackers instead of cookies and it doesn't mean sugar-free chocolate... the idea is to reduce on the habit of sugar consumption, so whenever possible substitute bad habits by good ones instead of bad food habits with pretend ones. This will make the recipes this year more challenging, but this is the only way I know how to break with my need to consume sugar that is becoming a bit of an addiction.

The midnight of the 1st of January sounded, the party burst and I have been without sugar since. The first day was really hard, the second even harder and the third I really had to keep myself busy with something to nibble on... carrot sticks (cut thin so it lasts longer) and nuts kept my teeth entertained and after a week and a half I can tell you I am no longer craving chocolate or find myself standing in front of the dispenser considering what I can use to calm the monster raging within, feeling like spoon eating a full can of condensed milk. From now on it is a matter of discipline. It might not work for everyone the same, some people manage to just have one sweet a day a week, but if I make allowances I know I won't be able to keep up with it and when I am 10Kg overweight - over the weight I feel healthy and my doctor suggests -  and I find myself hunting for chocolates and desserts like my body depends on them to survive I know I am in need of a small cleanse like banning sugar.

I don't intend to implement this often or forever, just until a month after I pass my goal weight or the year is over. If by the end of the year I haven't managed to lose my intended weight I will need to up my game and reduce on carbs at dinner and fruits after the meal too. But hopefully it won't come to that. Hopefully I will just come out of this year stable at a lower weigh I can maintain with minimum gluttony because I love me some desserts.

Keep in mind that the first Kg are always easier to lose and that discipline is a challenge you put yourself up to and need to take seriously, so you come out proud of your accomplishment (however small) instead of weakened by another failed attempt to take control over a small part of your life. I mean, this is no big deal, no big feat, but don't get into any resolution unless you intend on committing or you will only be harming yourself, your self-esteem and you deserve more self-respect than that you deserve commitment and investment and strength. A strong head resolution is the only thing that is going to save you from the harshest moments of the year when you need some comforting and chocolate used to be it.