Each week we feature one of our favourite recipes from our meal plans. This week we have chosen a seasonal Easter treat – a wheat free, sugar free but deliciously indulgent chocolate and pear cake
all that's missing is coconut sugar (but you could always swap xylitol for coconut sugar. Thank you to everyone who sends me pictures of my recipes on Twitter & Facebook – here are a selection
I used to make this in it’s former-brownie-incarnation with maple syrup, but a granulated sweetener like xylitol (birch-tree syrup, poisonous to dogs, so do be careful) or coconut sugar makes it more cake-like
Mix the icing sugar (or Xylitol) and the cream cheese together in a mixing bowl. For tips and advice on modifying your own cake and dessert recipes, please go to our Healthy CakeRecipes page
Make the cake by beating the eggs, coconut milk, vanilla, coconut oil, Xylitol and honey. Beat it with the vanilla and Xylitol, adding more sweetener to taste, if desired
And the addition of spices make it seem sweeter, so you can also reduce the amount of sugar or sweetener in the recipe (I use xylitol in this sugar-free recipe)
Any good gluten free vegan cakerecipes. We always say when adapting recipes you should only change one element at a time, so I was looking for a recipe when this was all I had to do – eggs
Add in the salt, xylitol and etheriums, then mix. In celebration of the National chocolate week, Shazzie, author and presenter of Raw Kitchen shares with IDEAL her favourite sweet chocolate recipes…
So, with just egg whites, cream or tartar, vanilla extract and xylitol or stevia (sugar alternatives), you can create a low-fat, low carb and natural sugar alternative icing
Other sweetener, I started to use is xylitol. All of us took some food with us and one of my sisters in law made a super delicious rhubarb cake with a crunchy almond topping
white sugar(or half sugar & half substitute, like xylitol)Sauce. as Brandie's recipes are. I haven't made a fruit cocktail cake in many years, and wouldn't have a clue where my recipe was
A little research led me to birch sugar with the rather unfortunate and chemical sounding name of Xylitol – the name is actually derived from the Greek word for tree – “xyl”
