Spiced Applesauce Cake
Submitted by David Weaver on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 8:33am
* 1 cup almond meal
* 1 cup coconut flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
* 1/2 cup coconut or grapeseed oil
* 1/3 cup stevia
* 1 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 2 large eggs
* 1 1/2 cups unsweetened chunky applesauce (Trader Joe's has a great one)
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Spread un-melted coconut oil in a 9 x 11 cake pan.
In a medium bowl whisk together flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices.
In a large bowl beat mix oil, stevia, and vanilla. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in applesauce. At low speed, mix in flour mixture until just combined. Make sure to scrape down the edges as you are combining the flour!
Spread batter evenly into buttered pan and bake until golden-brown, 30-35 minutes. Test doneness with a toothpick. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Run a knife around edge of cake to loosen, then invert onto cooling rack. Let sit for another 15 minutes then return to pan or cake plate for frosting
Recipes
Baked Stuffed Tomatoes
1 can tuna (or fresh crab or shredded chicken, etc...)
2-3 TBS olive oil
1/4 cup almonds
1/4 cup walnuts
dashes of cayenne pepper
squeezes of lemon
bunch of basil
fresh ground black pepper
half of avocado
stalk of celery
Combine in food processor! Stuff hollowed out tomato. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
Health Tips
Buy Organic
Foods that were once thought to be very good for your health, are still good for your health. BUT, many of them also have added problems and dangers associated with them that they never had before.
There are some more commonly known problems such as the use of pesticides, toxins and other dangerous chemicals that now exist in non-organic foods. These can lead to various health problems and conditions. Just do a search for "side effects of pesticides" and see what you come up with.
But aside from these issues, there is a very big problem even worse than pesticides; Genetically Modified Foods. The US does NOT require labeling of GMO foods. Fruits and vegetables are some of the most commonly modified foods. They are created in labs and then patented as something the said company owns. There are no laws about the safety of these foods being put into distribution. They are only required to have a patent. Some foods that are VERY likely genetically modified are soy, corn and it's products (canola oil, high fructose corn syrup, etc.) and wheat.
So just by eating the way our pre-agricultural ancestors ate, we can avoid some of our present day dangers all together. We already know that grainfed animals are the "protein equivilant of cardboard." We also now know that there are some potentially dangerous effects of the other foods we are eating as well. So if we are trying to live as healthy and disease-free as possible, let's think more carefully about what we put in our bodies. Buying organic, grassfed, local products is good for the local community, good for your health, and good for future generations.
"A plant, fruit, or animal grown without the administration of artificial pesticides, herbicides, or insecticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics or growth hormones (in the case of animal products), most closely replicates wild or untampered-with growing conditions" - Mark Sisson
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” ~ Thomas Edison
