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This morning I woke up to a super-hungry and grumpy little fluff ball (she's feeling better!) and... a white world.

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.

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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.

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I hope you enjoy this cake! Let me know what you think!