Wheat Free Brownies!

1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup carob powder
6 eggs
(1 tsp stevia *) or 1 cup xylitol (organic sugar, rapadura, organic dehydrated cane syrup)
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 cup Coconut Flour
1 cup Walnuts (chopped)

Preheat oven to 350
Med saucepan... low heat ~ blend butter and carob powder
Remove from heat and cool
In a separate bowl mix eggs, sweetener, and vanilla
Blend egg mix into carob mix
Stir in Coconut flour... stir until smooth... no lumps
Add walnuts (cashews, shredded coconut etc)
Bake in a pre-oiled 8 x 8 baking pan for 30-35 mins

You can also try adding some spirulina to this recipe or use coconut oil or coconut butter/manna instead of the butter.  Enjoy and have fun eating your candida controlling coconut!


* stevia measurements instead of sugar ~ http://www.steviva.com/resources/2006/01/heres_sugar_alternative_you_ca.html

Jamie's Birthday cake

Sorry... no pics yet... when I get them uploaded I will post them for all... Mom, you should be able to 'save' them from here to be able to print them.

GF Carob (mock chocolate) Cake by Wendy Semyck

• preheat oven to 350

whisk dry ingredients together

• 1.5 Cup white rice flour
• 3/4 cup tapioca flour
• 1/2 cup carob powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda (I didn't have any baking powder on hand and so I used 2 scant tsp baking soda)
• 1 tsp xanthum gum (or guar gum... I used guar gum yesterday for our sons b-day cake!)

In mixing bowl - mix til fluffy:

• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup mayo

Gradually add to the egg mixture - alternating between the two:

• flour mixture
• 1 cup milk (I used hemp) + 2 tsp vanilla extract

Mix well.  Being sure there are no lumps.  I started my stand mixer on 3 and then moved it to 6 for 5 mins while my dd used the rubber spatula to keep it off the sides of the ss mixing bowl.   I then let it sit for a couple of minutes to help reduce the grainy type of texture that is often unavoidable when using rice flour.  Letting it sit for a little while helped a lot.  NO grainy texture at all!

No one knew it was gluten free.  Also, they had NO idea it was carob... they kept saying that the "chocolate cake" was great. :D

This makes 2    8-9" rounds or  1  ~  9x13

I made one round in white from a mix I had purchased.  I could tell it wasnt' going to be enough... so created the carob for another round... it was enough to make that and a small rectagular cake that I put coconut and walnuts on top... that one looked like brownies and I (along with the other ladies at the party) prefered it to the frosted cake... toasted coconut and walnuts... YUM!

... it was even better this morning!!! :D