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Lemon Blueberry Cake

We made this cake for a recent birthday and LOVED it!!!  This recipe is by Stacey, and you can find it at beautyandthefoodie.com.

Instead of lemon zest and lemon extract, we used lemon essential oil.  YUM!

Paleo Lemon Blueberry Poke Cake

Author: Stacey

Prep time: 12 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 42 mins

Serves: 9

Paleo Lemon Blueberry Poke Cake is a simple and easy to make cake that is grain free and has a low carb version.

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients:

  • ½ cup coconut flour, sifted
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • ⅓ cup unsweetened coconut milk or almond milk
  • 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp. lemon zest
  • 2 ½ Tbsp. coconut oil, melted or grass fed butter, melted
  • Sweetener of choice: ⅓ cup Organic maple syrup or honey, or for low carb use ⅓ cup
  • 1 tsp. lemon extract (organic GF kind)
  • ½ tsp. baking soda + 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar, mixed in separate pinch bowl (should be very fizzy)
  • ½ cup blueberries * optional

Lemon Ice Glaze:

  • 2 Tbsp. coconut oil or butter, melted
  • 1½ Tbsp. coconut butter, melted
  • 1 ½ Tbsp. unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1½ Tbsp. lemon juice
  • ½ tsp. lemon extract (organic GF kind)
  • 2 tsp. lemon zest
  • Sweetener of choice: 1 ½ to 2 Tbsp. honey for paleo, or for low carb use 2 Tbsp. erythritol, or 1/3 tsp. liquid stevia

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease or oil a 9” round cake pan.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine: all the first 8 cake ingredients. Stir together thoroughly, breaking up any coconut flour clumps. Add in baking soda- vinegar mixture and stir.
  3. Gently add and mix in the blueberries.
  4. Spoon cake batter into prepared pan and spread around evenly.
  5. Bake in 350 F oven for 30 minutes or until center is firm.
  6. Remove cake from oven and let cool for 10 minutes while you make the lemon ice glaze.
  7. Heat a small sauce pan over low heat and melt: coconut oil or butter, and coconut butter. Stir the mixture as it melts and break up any coconut butter clumps.
  8. Once melted, remove from heat and add all the rest of the lemon ice glaze ingredients. Stir the glaze thoroughly until well mixed and set aside to cool.
  9. Use a metal or wooden skewer, or large toothpick to poke holes all over the cake. Be sure to poke all the way down to the bottom of cake.
  10. Spoon or pour lemon ice glaze all over the top of cake, making sure to cover well. Use the back of a spoon to spread around evenly.
  11. Let cake cool and glaze set awhile. Should only take 5 minutes or so for glaze to solidify a bit.
  12. Slice and serve. Unused portions should be stored in the fridge.

We hope you enjoy this cake as much as we did.

 

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Panda Express Orange Chicken

This is an amazing recipe!  It is a favorite at our house.  You will love it too!  You can use essential oils in this recipe and make it gluten free.

Click here to find the original recipe.

We serve this dish with Jasmine brown rice at our house.  To feed a family of five, I use four chicken breasts (cut up in small bits) and triple the orange chicken sauce ingredients.  (For less sauce, you can double it.)  I double the minced garlic, use turbinado sugar, and rice vinegar in place of rice wine.  To make this dish gluten free make sure to use gluten free soy sauce.  Instead of orange zest in the sauce, I add doTERRA wild orange essential oil.  I am generous with this oil.  (You can use several drops depending on how much orange flavor you want.)  Sometimes I substitute doTERRA ginger essential oil for the minced ginger in the recipe.  I use one to two drops of ginger essential oil.  (For milder chicken, try one drop.)

YUM!!!

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Thanksgiving With Oils

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Creamy Chicken and Thyme (Gluten Free)

This recipe is a hit at our house!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creamy Chicken and Thyme (Gluten Free)
4 chicken breast halves
1 can (14.5 oz.) chicken broth, divided
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp. dried parsley flakes
salt and pepper
1/4 tsp. dill
doTERRA thyme essential oil
toothpick
1/2 tsp. onion powder
hot cooked noodles (I use Tinkyada gluten free noodles)

Place chicken breasts in a large skillet. Add 1/2 cup of the broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes or until juices run clear, turning once. Remove chicken from pan, keep warm. Add remaining broth to skillet and bring to a boil, reduce heat to low. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and sour cream. Whisk into pan. Stir in other herbs/spices. When adding the thyme essential oil, place a clean toothpick into the essential oil bottle and then drag this toothpick through the sauce in the pan. Once is enough for our family, you may like to do it twice (use a clean toothpick each time). Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until slightly thickened. Place chicken over hot cooked noodles. Drizzle with sauce. Serves 4.

This is an altered recipe from Taste of Home.

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Gluten Free Lemon Ginger Muffins

I made these today, and they are YUMMY!!!

Gluten Free Lemon Ginger Muffins
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup turbinado sugar
4 egg whites
2 Tbsp. minced fresh ginger root
3 to 4 drops doTERRA lemon essential oil
2 cups Bob’s Red Mill gluten free flour
3/4 tsp. xanthan gum
1 tsp. soda
1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt

In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly. Add egg whites; beat well. Stir in ginger and lemon essential oil. Combine flour, xanthan gum, and soda; add to butter mixture alternately with yogurt. Coat muffin cups with spray (I used baking cups); fill 3/4 full. Bake at 375 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes. Yield: 1 dozen (16 for me).

This is an altered recipe from Taste of Home.  You can make it with regular flour (make sure to exclude the xanthan gum if using regular flour).

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