@PenfoldAPD &
@liam1955
Think both of you have been promised recipes from me the stracciatella cake and cauliflower bread although thinking back I think the bread was one of the ladies
@debrasue possibly BUT whoever/whenever recipes are here...fortunately saved in various threads I've posted them in so now saved again on my lappy
Stracciatella cake:
110gm softened butter; 120g cream cheese; 5 med eggs; 185g almond flour (ground almonds); sweetener equivalent to 100g. sugar (I use trivia - perfect); 1tbsp baking powder; vanilla, almond or orange essence; 50g of 75-85% chocolate - I use solid cacao..... Oven 170C....lightly grease a small loaf tin.... Mix butter and cream cheese really well; add sweetener and essence; mix in eggs really well, one at a time; stir in almond flour and BP; add chocolate bits... pour mix into tin and level the top; 55 minutes at 170C fan - 190 non-fan assisted.... apparently the cake freezes well too...
My sugar substitute is Sucron..... and I add almond essence. Not tried the vanilla or orange essences but I do plan to try lemon..... The first time I made it I used dark chocolate chips but I found it didn't go too well with the cake for my taste, far nicer without..... 45 minutes has been plenty for my oven.
I like cauliflower bread too .... often used as a pizza base apparently and I think it would work well.... I just had it with some feta cheese....the first half and the day after I fried the second half in a bit of butter to reheat it and had it with more of the same cheese......
CAULIFLOWER BREAD
Cauliflower Bread:
1 cauliflower - put it in the blender with a clove of garlic
mix in 2-3 eggs, 100grammes grated cheese or parmesan, pinch of oregano & basil
turn out onto baking tray lined with greaseproof paper (pat down & shape)
cook in oven 40mins @170C (325F)
turn over (turn out onto another baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, removing the original greaseproof paper)
cook for a further 20 mins
remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack
simples!
excellent as a pizza base
ooh, must give you this next recipe too..... sorry to bombard you but I know you said you liked chocolate... well this is quick and easy to make and satisfies the chocolate cravings ....
Chia seed pudding (
@Brunneria's version)
Boil kettle
grab a 500 ml measuring jug
tip in 2 hugely heaped teasp of good cocoa powder (my teaspoons are bigger than average)
tip in about half as much again of your sugar substitute
tip in a huge dollop of peanut butter
tip in about 5 heaped dessert spoons of chia seeds
pour in boiling water to about the 500ml mark
stir until all lumps gone.
leave to sit until suitably gloopy.
I don't use so much sweetener but that's to my taste, I used crunchy PB but intend to try it with other nut butters too.....and I used 5 level tablespoons of chia seeds today (you just can't heap chia seeds, its impossible)
I got my chia seeds and the ground almonds on eBay but if you have a healthfood shop nearby they might have it and I guess if your Morrison's is big enough they should at least have the almond flour (I'm guessing eBay is cheaper though) let me know if you need the link