I've heard lately that Christchurch is actually inside a snow globe, and it just takes a little shaking to make it snow. It could be true. Who am I to say? It's definitely abnormal for us to have snow this early, or two years in a row. Last winter it snowed not once, but twice, which caused old timers to muse that this had surely not happened in living memory.
Can it be merely a coinky-dink that since we started having big quakes, we are also getting the white stuff? (file under: things I'll probably always suspect but never know for sure).
Also this morning? The first weigh-in since I got a grip. After a week or so of good, hard training and sensible eating (more or less), I'm down 1kg (58.7kg today). I was surprised. Very surprised, considering that yesterday I made a delectable Gluten-Free, Vegan, Coconut Cake, and consumed.. mmm... quite a lot of it.
I believe that my friend Sara (from Inside and Out) would refer to this as vegan yum-diggity (she's Texan: and probably thinks snow is just a myth).
This is a super easy cake, it takes approximately 5 minutes to throw together and then it can cook while you are eating dinner, or doing your workout.
Easy Peasy, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Coconut Cake
Ingredients
1 cup dessicated coconut (for a more textural cake you could add some shredded coconut)
1 cup sugar (or for a lower-sugar version replace some or all of the sugar with erythritol). I used 1/2 demerara sugar and 1/2 erythritol.
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup rice flour or other gluten-free flour
Half cup almond meal (or leave this out and just use 1.5 cups rice flour)
either: 1 tsp gluten-free baking powder or
½ tsp baking soda and ½ tsp ascorbic acid or citric acid (you need an acid to activate the baking soda, even a tsp lemon juice might do the trick).
Pinch of salt
Tsp of vanilla essence
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180°
Grease a loaf pan (or use a silicon one like I did) or small cake pan
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix until there are no dry bits left
Pour the mix into your pan and bake for approximately 1 hour or until a knife inserted into it comes out clean.
This cake is lovely warm, but gains firmness as it cools.
I hope you enjoy this cake! Let me know what you think!
I hope you enjoy this cake! Let me know what you think!
