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I keep trying to refine the birthday cake.
For my birthday, my girls made me a delicious birthday side dish instead of a cake.
For my son's birthday, I baked an agave-sweetened rice flour cake with a butter cream frosting (made with butter, milk, vanilla, and cane sugar.) For my son's birthday PARTY, we made a more conventional cake with white spelt and real sugar, plus more of the butter cream frosting, for all the guests. For my daughter's birthday, I made a honey-sweetened cheesecake with whipped cream (just heavy cream and maple syrup,whipped at home, no additives)in place of frosting.
The whipped cream was such a success that I think I'll do that for all future birthday cakes- if served with a dairy meal. Kosher laws forbid the mixing of milk and meat in the same meal, and that means we can't have a dairy dessert after eating meat or poultry. Ghee and butter count as dairy according to Jewish law.
Now I'm off to the final birthday cake of the year: my daughter shares a Hebrew birthday with her father, even though their birthdays are a few days apart on the Gregorian calendar. Their shared birthday is tonight, when I'm serving turkey for the Shabbos meal. This means that the birthday cake needs to be completely dairy-free.
I'm planning to bake a chocolate cake with agave and rice flour so that I can eat it too. But how to decorate it?
I could skip the frosting altogether (but this risks one of the girls making an unhealthy frosting later in the day.)
I could make a "butter cream" frosting with coconut oil, rice milk, and powdered sugar (granulated cane sugar in the coffee grinder- no additives.) But Leah and I should both be avoiding cane sugar.
Is there some way to make a frosting with coconut oil and agave or maple syrup? Would that even work?
Ruth, Single Mother to 18yo O- Leah, 17yo O- Hannah,and 11yo B+ Jack
Is there some way to make a frosting with coconut oil and agave or maple syrup? Would that even work?[/quote]
It says in the website:
"I got the frosting recipe from a post on the Raw Freedom Community. While this recipe features lemon juice, you could make the same recipe with most fruits. I have reprinted it below with my modifications. •1 C coconut oil •1/4 C agave nectar •rind from 1 large lemon •1/4 C lemon juice 1.Beat the coconut oil until creamy. 2.Mix in the agave nectar. 3.Mix in the lemon rind and lemon juice. The frosting will spread well. However, it will not be thick enough to pipe. After you put it in the refrigerator, it will harden. I liked it much better cold and would strongly recommend serving it that way."
Just the other night I made icing with coconut oil, honey and carob powder. Easily done with cocoa powder too. It was delicious and it stayed together. I thought it would run everywhere, but the carob powder was thick enough to keep it together.
ISTJ, BTD since 5/05. Battling chronic Lyme disease since ~1985.
"Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial..." I Corinthians 6:12
Coconut oil is an avoid for me. It's a pain because it's popular now and it's being used in a lot of recipes. That and coconut flour. Another avoid. I'm allergic to coconut so I can' even cheat and I'm gluten free now so I have to try to sub another flour for coconut.. I usually sub almond flour.
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Coconut oil is an avoid for me. It's a pain because it's popular now and it's being used in a lot of recipes. That and coconut flour. Another avoid. I'm allergic to coconut so I can' even cheat and I'm gluten free now so I have to try to sub another flour for coconut.. I usually sub almond flour.
Coconut oil is one avoid that I will indulge in a few times a year, I just pop a deflect and as I am 100% compliant most of the time, I don't worry about it. The stress and worry make it worse, but some may have a bad reaction even with the deflect but not me. Dr. D'Adamo does mention somewhere if one is 85% compliant that is still quite beneficial. For me, I need to be stricter with occasional black dots or a few avoids a few times a year. Gotta have our cake and eat it too sometimes!!!
Coconut oil is one avoid that I will indulge in a few times a year, I just pop a deflect and as I am 100% compliant most of the time,
A famous member, Ribbit once said.. "There are avoids, and then there are avoids" ! I thought that was so true. There are some avoids that I can partake and not be affect too much. Coconut is one of those avoids that I break out in a rash from if I eat it. Plus Dr. D said coconut causes abnormal growths so I try to be extra careful avoiding coconut. Every so often I cracked and ate some coconut candy.. then I'd break out in rash inside my mouth.. lol . I had to stop. I can't take Deflect anymore. It was my favorite supplement. I get a skin rash from it.. spots, itchy...
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For my family, coconut oil is a reasonable compromise. It's "beneficial" for me, and the rest of my family doesn't need to be nearly as cautious. Two of my kids are on BTD so coconut oil is an outright avoid, though I do question if it's really all that harmful, since I don't know what SWAMI would say for them. Leah's SWAMI says no to coconut oil, but her SWAMI also assumes she's a secretor which I don't think is correct- so I suspect that coconut oil is just fine for her.
I don't cook with coconut oil for them on a regular basis, but in the specific case of frosting for a birthday cake it's something I'm comfortable feeding them. If anybody was allergic to coconut, we'd have to find something else to use.
Ruth, Single Mother to 18yo O- Leah, 17yo O- Hannah,and 11yo B+ Jack
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No, I haven't posted it yet. I keep taking the recipe from a "traditional" cookbook, sub rice flour for the "all purpose" flour, and calculate how much agave to use in place of sugar each time I make the recipe.
I'll add that to my "to do list".
Ruth, Single Mother to 18yo O- Leah, 17yo O- Hannah,and 11yo B+ Jack
Coconut oil is an avoid for me. It's a pain because it's popular now and it's being used in a lot of recipes. That and coconut flour. Another avoid. I'm allergic to coconut so I can' even cheat and I'm gluten free now so I have to try to sub another flour for coconut.. I usually sub almond flour.
I share your feelings about coconut oil, especially. I would love to be able to use it! Coconut meat and coconut water are black dots for me, but it is a no go for the oil. It doesn't bother me when I eat coconut about twice a year, so it is hard not to enjoy it more.
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Coconut meat and coconut water are black dots for me, but it is a no go for the oil. It doesn't bother me when I eat coconut about twice a year, so it is hard not to enjoy it more.