primal cavewife

• Roast macadamia nuts at 150 degrees for 30 minutes, flipping them every 10 minutes.
• Set the macadamia nuts aside once roasted.
• Puree coconut cream, dates, vanilla extract and cashews together until completely smooth.
• Place butter and honey in a saucepan over medium heat and simmer for 10 minutes and set aside.
• Add the coconut cream mix into the ice cream maker as per manufacturer's instructions.
• Once the ice cream begins to thicken, add the macadamia nuts.
• Drizzle the caramel into the ice cream mix and let stand in the freezer for a couple hours.

• Preheat the oven to 150C.
• Mix the almond meal, coconut and most of the flake almond together.
• In a pot, heat up the honey and butter.
• Mix the bicarb soda with water and mix with the honey mix until it gets frothy.
• Remove the honey mix from the heat and mix it with the dry ingredients until combined.
• Add water if needed to make it more dough-y
• Form small balls with the dough and press down lightly on the baking pan.
• Press some leftover flakes on top.
• Bake in the oven for 35 minutes or until golden brown.

I baked this cricket ball cake for a friend a while ago. It was the first ever novelty cake I have ever made. I baked a chocolate mud cake in a round pyrex bowl and then rolled out some fondant and laid it over the cake and decorated it with an icing pen I found in woolies.

This cake was made of chocolate mud cake with flour, so it was much easier to bake than the paleo chocolate mud cake. Besides, it did not require and cutting or carving. So if you have a cricket fan, this would be the perfect cake to bake them!

• Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Line muffin tray baking paper.
• Mix almond meal, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together.
• In separate bowl, whisk oil, honey and eggs. Mix almond meal mix in the wet ingredients.
• Fold in sweet potatoes, walnuts and bananas.
• Pour batter in muffin tray and bake for 25-30 minutes.

‘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.

satay sticks for entree, a big scotch fillet and this novelty cake for dessert! I found a recipe online and decided to try it.

The cake was easy enough to bake, but building it was a lot harder than I expected… because it is a paleo cake and has no flour or anything to hold it together, it comes out much smaller and deflates when it cools down. It is nevertheless a very good paleo chocolate mud cake.
The initial idea was to build a skyline, but it ended up looking like a ute instead and now he won’t stop calling it his ute cake. 

Here is a recipe for a normal chocolate mud cake if you want the cake to stand properly. I have made a novelty cake out of this recipe as well – a cricket ball.

Building this car was not easy, luckily there are many youtube videos out there. Here is one that I chose to help guide me. I baked a chocolate mud cake to form the inside of the car, mixed up an avocado chocolate mousse to use as icing to help glue the car together and finally a simple marshmallow fondant to make it look pretty and turn it into a purple car because purple is his favourite colour. 

Chocolate Mud Cake
Ingredients:
200g butter
250 dark chocolate, in pieces
4 eggs, separated
1/2 cup honey

• Preheat oven to 160 degrees.
• Melt butter and dark chocolate over low heat in a saucepan and stir until smooth. Set aside.
• Whisk egg yolks with half of the honey until thick and creamy.
• In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the rest of the honey.
• Add chocolate mix to the egg yolk mix and mix together with a spoon.
• Fold through egg white gently. Once mixed together, pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake for 40-50 minutes.

Avocado Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients:
2 avocados
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup honey

• Pulse all ingredients in a food processor until the mixture is smooth.

Marshmallow Fondant
Ingredients:
125g marshmallows
250g icing sugar
Food Colouring

• Place marshmallows in a microwaveable bowl and microwave them for about 30 seconds or until marshmallows have melted.
• Slowly mix the icing sugar with marshmallows with a fork. It will get very sticky and very messy. I would recommend not touching the mixture until you have enough icing sugar in it for it to be less messy. Add in your desired colour of food colouring in the mix while you are stirring.
• Once you have enough icing sugar, the mix should not be too sticky and you can roll out your fondant and design your novelty cake.

Note: I used normal white marshmallows without food colouring for the windows, blue food colouring for the wheels and mixed red and blue food colouring to get purple.

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.

This avocado chocolate mousse is absolutely delicious! You can eat it on its own or mix in some fruits. I like mine with kiwi, strawberries and bananas. It is a great idea to pack some for picnic. Not being able to pack any sandwiches for my boyfriend, I had to get creative. I ended up packing some paleo sushi, paleo cheesecake, this mousse and some brie cheese. Yummm…! This mousse is meant to be smooth but my food processor broke and I haven’t been able to replace a new one being a poor student and all – the cheapest food processor I could find is about $20 from Big W and it’s too far from where I live. So I had to whip this up with a blender. It has chunks of avocado in it, but still very tasty.

This is also the very same mousse I used as ‘icing’ to glue my novelty car cake together. It is very flexible with what you can do with it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Ingredients:
2 avocadoes, pitted
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup honey

• Pulse ingredients with a food processor until the mixture is smooth.