Awesome Triple Ebook GIVEAWAY!! And Quadruple Layer Paleo Jaffa Celebration Cake – Perfect For Valentine’s Day
I’m so excited about this post – it’s my first ever GIVEAWAY on Carmen Eat Joy!! To celebrate the launch of FastPaleo’s Top 100 Recipes of the 2012 – featuring quite of few of MY recipes – I’m going to give away a copy!! I’m also going to give away a copy of Paleo on A Budget by Robb Wolf – SUCH a great resource for everyday paleo goers – AND a copy of Primal Deliverance – an inspirational story of James Gregory’s journey towards paleo. PLUS there is this recipe I have been working on for really a long while – a Quadruple Layer Jaffa Celebration Cake – and I’m finally putting the recipe up in conjunction with this giveaway!! It will be absolutely perfect for a special Valentine’s Day Desssert… Couldn’t be more excited =)!!!… So – enter, and ask your friends to enter, because these ebooks are such a great combination to have and will make your paleo life – recipes, meal planning, and motivation – so much easier!
The Quadruple Layer Paleo Jaffa Celebration Cake!!
Firstly – the Giveaway!!!
First Prize is a copy of FastPaleo’s Top 100 Recipes of 2012 - book FULL of fabulous recipes to get inspire and satisfy!! The name says it all – 100 awesome recipes!!
Second Prize is a copy of Robb Wolf’s Paleo On A Budget - which includes meal planning, and plenty of ways to make paleo work for you and your family. An absolute must-have.
Third Prize is a copy of James Gregory’s Primal Deliverance - his inspirational story that will motivate you in your paleo journey – why paleo is the ONLY way and has totally worked for him, and saved his life.
The giveaway will run for one week only, so it will end on the 13th Feb at 12am Eastern Australia time!!
Ingredients
For the orange cake:
2 oranges
300g almond meal
6 eggs
100g coconut syrup or maple syrup
1 tsp baking soda
For the chocolate cake
130g cacao butter
70g cacao powder
130g organic maple syrup or honey
150g almond meal
6 egg whites
1 tsp baking soda
For the cashew cream
150g raw cashews, soaked
150g water
50g maple syrup
For the ganache and topping
200g strawberries
100g coconut oil
50g cacao powder
50g maple syrup or honey
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
For the orange cake, follow this recipe (already on Carmen Eat Joy). Only cook for 50mins instead of an hour.
For the chocolate cake:
Melt the cacao butter over a double boiler, or if using a Thermomix, at 50 degrees for 5 minutes on speed 1. If using a double boiler, transfer to a food processor and add cacao powder, liquid sweetener, almond meal and baking soda. Process until combined. If using a Thermomix, add above and process on 4 until combined. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Add to processor or Thermomix, and pulse until just combined, roughly 4 -5 pulses.
Line the base of a springform tin and oil the sides, and bake for roughly 33 minutes, or until a knife inserted comes out clean. Let both cakes cool completely.
For the cashew cream:
Strain off the soaking water. Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.
For the ganache:
Melt the coconut oil until liquid. Add oil and all other ingredients to blender or processor and process until combined. Wait until it cools a little before adding to the top, so that it is easier to spread evenly.
Assembly:
Cut both cakes horizontally, evenly (if possible) so that you have 4 cakes. Look at the pictures below – put down a layer of chocolate cake, then spread some cashew cream. Put down a layer of orange cake, then cashew cream. Repeat for the second layer of chocolate cake, then add the final layer of orange cake. Instead of cream, add the chocolate ganache and arrange strawberries on top. Voila! You did it!! Enjoy for a special treat, celebration – or especially – for Valentine’s Day!! =) x
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Hi and thank you for visiting Carmen Eat Joy! I am passionate about food, health and achieving total wellbeing through a paleo/primal way of approaching these, including creating delicious recipes. I did a brief intro in my first post – the one called Eat – and Introduction - but I feel like putting down here the reason I feel so inclined to write a – dread the word – blog. I really never used to be a big fan of blogs, and yet here I find myself writing one – the reason being that I have recently subscribed to some amazing ones and am now aware of how great they can be (aspirations for me!). I live in beautiful Mansfield in the high country of Victoria, Australia – on the way up to Mt Buller ski resort – and, well, I love my food. I’m the kind of girl who is always dreaming and/or fantasising about what I’m going to have for my next meal – when I’m going to have it, where it’s going to come from, how it’s going to make me feel – well, you get the drift. Yes, I am mildly (okay, that adjective is really just to console myself) obsessed with food. Food is definitely going to be a one-word titled post for me soon though – I’m going to define what I really consider to be food – and that definitely excludes a huge amount – in fact, nearly all – of what we see on our supermarket shelves. Fresh, organic or biodynamic produce – fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, meats, and the odd grain – basically summarise what falls into the category of food for me. The gist of what I’ll be putting up here reflects the paleo/primal way of eating and lifestyle – basically going back to what our ancestors ate – eating what we were born to eat, rather than food – or “products” that have been created by people. But I’ll save that for another post. I'm currently studying a Masters of Human Nutrition, and my CV includes a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne (majoring in English literature – I love reading – and writing – and reading about writing), being a professional singer songwriter for about five years – now I sing just for fun!… – I’m a qualified personal trainer, barista – and in my spare time, over many years, I have read, so much about nutrition. It’s one of my absolute biggest passions; I find it to be such an infuriating paradox that in a society where statistically we are just getting more depressed, more unhealthy, and overweight, we are able now more than ever to access information about how to improve our health. Without our health, what do we have? The most wealthy people in the world are unable to enjoy such riches without health – and individually, not one of us is able to achieve what we are meant to in life without being in the peak of health. The old “I don’t have time” line is another one that perplexes me because, quite simply, health needs to be a priority. And health and food and joy=life are inextricably linked for me, hence me beginning to write about it. While the previous paragraph may sound a trifle intense (I sometimes have that tendency), for me, food is fun, enjoyment, laughter, pleasure, family – and what I really hope to do through this blog is pass on my passion and get you excited too. About food. Health. Life. So – lovely to meet you! And thank you so much for visiting this page. I will endeavour to not disappoint. Or bore… Carmen x
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Absolutely stunning
Thanks Chrissie, and perfect for Valentine’s Day!! =)
not sure where I was supposed to answer the question for the giveaway so I will post it here. My favorite regular recipe that I would like a paleo and perferably nut free version of is Biscuits and Gravy
Hey Carmen
Love the site, can you post the nutritional breakdown of your recipes please
Haha which one would you like the breakdown for?
Are you able to do all of them as you post it? You have got to start selling this stuff they look amazing
Looks delicious! Will make the attempt, my first, on Valentines day!
You didn’t say how long to soak the cashews. also for those of us that don’t use weight measurements can you translate this recipe in cups? Thanks. It looks delicious,
Just soak the cashews for at least half an hour. Sorry Carol, I prefer to use weight because it’s much more accurate – I’d prefer not to translate as then it makes it that little bit less accurate. But kitchen scales are very inexpensive and easy to buy =) Hope you enjoy it!
Anything that would make an easy-peasy breakfast. We are WAY to used to boxed cereal in the mornings. It’s my last big “crutch”!
I would love for you to make pierogies paleo style
That looks so amazing! I’m always looking for “healthier” desserts made with real ingredients! Thank you!
Truly gorgeous!
I too would like the nutrional info on these recipes. The cake looks Amazing!!