primal cavewife

• Grind the hazelnuts in a food processor. I didn't grind them too much as I prefer them to be chunky.
• In a saucepan, combine the cacao powder, stevia, egg yolks, coconut cream, vanilla extract, vanilla bean paste, medjool dates and ground hazelnuts. Bring the mix to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Let it cool down before blending the mix in a blender. I made a mistake of placing all the ground hazelnuts in the pot so my chunky hazelnuts were mostly gone by the time they came out of the blender.
• Place it in your ice cream machine as per the manufacturer's instruction.

‘Why don’t you make a Paleo Sticky Date Pudding?’ This is the first time my boyfriend ever asked me to make him dessert. He has a sweet tooth so of course I immediately went online to look up a recipe for him. This recipe was jackpot. It smells so good and tastes so delicious that you don’t even realise it is Paleo!

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup pitted dates
1/3 cup boiling water
100g butter, softened
1/2 cup honey
3 eggs
1/3 cup yoghurt
2 1/2 cup almond flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda

Caramel sauce:
200g butter
1 cup honey

• Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Place cupcake liners in muffin tray.
• Place dates and boiling water in food processor and pulse until dates are chopped and mushy.
• In a bowl, mix the butter and honey until creamy. Add eggs gradually and beat well. Pour mix into dates with yoghurt and blend.
• Mix almond flour and baking soda together and combine with date mix.
• Pour mix into cupcake liners and bake for 40-45 minutes or until cake feels spongy.
• Place butter and honey in saucepan and over medium heat simmer for 10 minutes. Serve pudding warm with cream, strawberries and caramel sauce.

Note: Caramel sauce will harden when refrigerated. Heat it up in the microwave before serving.

I came across this recipe online and thought ‘hm… this looks like cheesecake…’ Looked at the recipe… there’s no cheese! Decided I’d give it a go anyway… Tried the end product and let my friends and boyfriend have a taste of it… Looks like cheesecake, tastes…kinda like cheesecake… must be cheesecake! NOPE!

You have to try it to believe me. Or you could just stick to this Oreo Cheesecake recipe that is in no way Paleo at all. It’s got cheese and oreo in it.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup raw, unsalted cashews (soaked for at least 24 hours)
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract

Crust:
1/2 cup pitted dates
1/2 cup pecans
1/2 cup flaked coconut

• Blend all crust ingredients together until they are breadcrumb consistency.
• Press crust mix in the bottom of the pan, making sure it doesn’t go up the sides.
• Blend cake ingredients. Filling should be super creamy and not chunky to feel like cheesecake.
• Spoon filling into pan. Cover and freeze overnight. Thaw for 15-20 minutes before serving.

Note: this recipe broke my food processor when I tried to pulse the crust ingredients. Try chopping up the ingredients into smaller pieces in case they break yours… or maybe mine is just cheap… it did only cost me about $20. I then had to blend the rest of my ingredients in a blender because my food processor was useless. I did have to portion the cake mix and blend them separately to make sure it would come out smooth. Make sure to soak the cashews for at least 24 hours. The second time I make this, I was so impatient, the mix came out chunky and it wasn’t as good as the first time I made it.