Carob Cake

Our family has basically been grain free since September.  We were invited to a birthday party for our nephew and I didn't want the kids to have to watch everyone eat birthday cake, so I decided to make my own!  I got the recipe from a wonderful support group for the SBP diet we are following. This recipe had carob powder, mashed baked sweet potatoes, eggs and some other ingredients.

Lovely farm fresh eggs, separated.

I beat the egg whites until stiff and then added the other ingredients.

 

Here is a  picture of the batter.  Notice the two little dollops of batter in the center?  I have never smoothed my cake batter out before.

Baking with no flour has a learning curve. LOL  Here is the cake when finished baking. The batter didn't settle. Woops!

Apparently Silas didn't mind that this was a flourless cake. ;-) 

Licking the bowl clean.

We did enjoy the cake but not at the party. After all that work, we went off a forgot the cake at home.  Thankfully, the kids didn't seem to mind.  It probably had something to do with the yummy homemade popsicles that we did remember.

Have a blessed day! ~Tammy

Kiwi sandwiches!

Yes you read that right!  Kiwi sandwiches.  All you need is some baby spinach and kiwi. (Remember? We aren't doing grains right now, so no bread for our sandwiches.)








If you are picturing this:

Then you don't quite have it right.  :-P

Seriously though, here's how it got started.......


We were eating our tuna salad on romaine leaves and Todd suggested topping with baby spinach (which was a wonderful, yummy suggestion!). I had cut up some kiwi slices for dessert.  Todd just mentioned how nice it would look as an appetizer to put a kiwi slice on a spinach leaf.

It does look lovely doesn't it?

Then he popped it in his mouth.



OH MY!  Scrumptious!

The spinach was a lovely texture and took some of the sour away from the kiwi. He found that just the right balance was a leaf on top and a leaf on bottom....hence the name "kiwi sandwich". 

Here is the perfected snack.

We all had a few. :)

If this is some sort of common snack somewhere forgive my ignorance, but we were just really excited to make something good for dessert.

Have a blessed day! ~Tammy