Psyllium cake fail

While I was at my dad's house recently I made him a gluten free, raising agent free, wheat free slice.

I had made something like this before with potato flour, coconut cream and brown sugar in somewhat equal ratios )!!). I'm making something my dad will enjoy, not something healthy!

But this time I added psyllium! It's basically pure fibre, so what's the harm when there's so much sugar to mask the flavour anyway?

 

The end result looked and tasted okay (there is nut butter and melted (apricot jam on top. Which when dad told me he was now allergic to NUTS too). But I used WAY too much fibre!! I learned that too much fibre = gas induced stomach aches.

Too bad. There's always next time.

Apple sponge pudding

So. I had a tin of apple pie filling to use up. And vanilla cake mix. The two were perfect for one another. Literally all I had to do was pour the batter over a bowl of apple and cook it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

Let them eat chocolate cake

This was made by mixing 100 g of the cheapest brand of chocolate cake mix with about half a cup of coke zero, then microwaving it in a heart shaped container. The mixture expanded to twice the size in the microwave after just a couple of minutes. I poured sugar free chocolate syrup on top.

My unashamed favourite breakfast: Chocolate weetabix

Weetabix are normally consumed slightly crumbled up (to fit in the bowl), cold, along with full cream milk and perhaps bananas. Right? Not in my world! I like to dissolve my weetabix into a mixture of sweeteners and cocoa. Then top it with more chocolate. 

As shown, I have topped my weetabix creation off with crushed oreo (actually, I used Delta Creams, but Oreo sounds cooler). When the weetabix have dissolved, I think they might bear a resemblance to the American cereal "cream of wheat." When left to chill overnight, the meal resembles one of those wheat puddings that were popular in the 1950s. Only it's not boring vanilla flavour, and the chocolate somewhat disguises the fact that you are eating a cereal rather than a pudding.

In fact, there are "rum ball" recipes that call for crushed up weetabix in exactly the same way. Exept for the fact that there is also chocolate mud cake, butter and rum essence in there.