We Try it Wednesday - Paleo Cupcakes

Welcome welcome, I am totally cold ridden, but I got up and started baking for the blog..because I know I have a heap that love this recipes.

We are making Paleo Cupcakes Today! using some ingrediants from an aussie store that I will now be using for my paleo cooking over at

One of my very best friends from highschool and her husband run it, She is the woman behind my workouts every day, and has been an amazing support. Paleo food and fitness are their life...they live and breathe it everyday! And they are Aussie, its damn hard to get good paleo ingredients without paying a fortune for shipping or stupid prices for things!

so you will need for this recipe ( if its hyperlinked I bought it from my paleo store)

• ¼ cup coconut flour
• ¼ cup cacao powder
• ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 4 large eggs
• ¼ cup coconut oil
• ⅓ cup honey

Really simple recipe! and we like simple here, because when you're sick, you dont want to be cooking for hours!

Add your dry ingredients to a mixing bow

the coconut four

the cacao powder

then add
¼ teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
to your bowl

this is the salt I used



I then added the Eggs and the Oil and honey
I used a natural raw honey so it looks a touch different

 

I was lazy and didnt use the food processor, I got our my hand beaters and mixed all the loveliness together. Then got my cupcake pans out

then spooned the mixture into the pans as evenly as I could.

 then I popped them into the oven (which was preheated) at 180 degrees for about 17 mins!

 

tar dahhh!

 

 I left them to cool, and worked on the frosting 

I will say, the frosting was hard..and I think I failed it up a bit...but trial and error hey!

You'll need

1 cup dark chocolate chips ( I used the coles brand simply as I cant find any other chocolate for cooking that doesnt have that evil sugar in it!)
⅓ cup coconut oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

put everything into the saucepan on a low heat and melt it down

once that was melted, I put it into a bowl and popped it into the fridge, the once it cooled I whipped it with the hand beaters (the part I failed to photograph and acutally stuffed up lol)


the finish product

ok, I'm going to make the last bit quick as I need a nap! lol
Taste - 8/10 I was very surprised at how moist these were, and the coconut flour doesn't overpower the entire taste (I get angry with the power of coconut flour and its overbearing taste in most things) These were fantastic tasting and even lily ate one who isnt a huge fan of cupcakes
Budge - 6/10 because my chcocolate is rather pricey that is a pain in the bum with price wise, my dry ingredients were great value but two packs of the chocolate is $8.00 on its own. We just need to find paleo dark chocolate and we are on our way!
Repeatability- 8/10 these were really lovely, and I will be making them to take with me to parties when its cake time, I'd rather have one of these knowing what's in it then having some birthday cake which would in turn play with my weightloss. Fantastic recipe by Elena's Pantry 

Don't forget, for your paleo needs head over to My Paleo for the aussie's who read my blog. You wont find anymore passionate shop owners then the Lesters.

I am done, I need to go curl up with a hot cup of tea and some vitamin C tablets
xx Courtney

We Try it Wednesday - Coconut Vanilla Date Cookies.

It is Wednesday and we are back with another recipe to give a whirl, this one is very simple, mainly because the little man is going back to school so the house was a frantic mess today! so I wanted to do something simple that wouldn't take me hours to make and photograph...so I found this recipe from the food lovers primal palate Today I am making the date version of the cookies. I wanted to do the chocolate ones, but I cant get the enjoy life chocolate chips at a good enough price to warrant buying them yet...so I went with the coconut date version - and I was dubious. 

I made zero changes to the recipe, as I had never cooked it before, oh I did use different dates cause I couldn't get the medjooled ones.

you are going to need.

Ingredients for the Cookies

1 Cup coconut flour
4 Eggs

touch of salt

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup of pure maple syrup
1/2 cup Coconut oil.
Ingredients for the Filling
7 Dates pitted

4 tbs water

1tbs pure maple syrup.

Get your oven on, I put mine on 180 then got a baking tray with baking paper all ready to go. Got my mixing bowl out and started putting the ingredients together. Basically this is a get it all in the bowl recipe which is right up my alley! I did whisk my eggs and sift my coconut flour, just to give it a lot of air.

 once I got all my ingredients in and mixed, it looked like this

I then used the dessert spoon to get a decent portion of the mix out of the bowl, and I rolled it in my palms to make little balls.

then I used my thumb to push a little hold in the cookie mix, like the original recipe calls for.

once I had that all sorted, I started working on the filling which wasnt hard at all.

 

take your dates in a bowl you dont mind putting in the microwave, add 3 tbs of water to them and pop them in the microwave for 30 seconds. Once they are out, mash them good with a fork, add another tablespoon of water and put them back in for 30 seconds...then mash again, add the tablespoon of maple syrup, I put them back in for another 30 seconds as my dates were being difficult, here is a dodgy photo of what they look like.

once I got it so a decent consistency I started spooning the mix into the thumbprint holes I had make in the cookies, I used a teaspoon to do this. 

I thought the mix was much to runny, and got a tad stressed..but I put them in the oven for 15 mins. Once I saw the edges browning I whipped them out.

 the date filling had hardened up to my joy and surprise hehe. 

I let them cool before letting miss lily try one.

she scoffed it, and asked for another...so teacup humans...big tick.

Now even though these amazing cookies are paleo/primal...they are still a treat, and to be had in moderation...my hips think of the maple syrup, so I had two with a cup of tea and that's it for me.

Taste: 9/10 I was very surprised with how these tasted,  I will admit when I was making the date filling, I was thinking how not appetizing it smelt. but I put my thoughts aside and I'm glad I did. These cookies taste great! All family members consumed with big smiles.

Budget: 4/10 This recipe calls for 1/2 cup of maple syrup and buying the pure stuff is pricey, so using such a large amount put this recipes rating down. Everything else was moderately priced and only smallish quantities, if I could find cheaper maple syrup the rating would go to a 7.

Repeatability: This recipe has gone down really well I can see us making these and maybe even trying to freeze some in batches. So that when I have a sugar craving instead of using it as my cheat meal, I can have one with a cup of tea and not be doing too much damage to my diet. They will be my go to biscuit for when we have afternoon tea out. Fantastic recipe, and once I get the chocolate chips I will definitely be trying their chocolate version of this recipe.

The Primal Palate have done a fantastic recipe for a treat for us paleo eaters. They have quite a few recipes I see on my to cook list!

have a great day guys, do try these ones out!

xx Courtney and John