Re: Mock Chocolate Birthday Cake?? & my own mini vent

[Guest guest]

I have an idea. Raw (Unroasted) Cocoa Nibs.

Supposedly there are lots of healthy properties to cocoa. But when

heated to roast or make chocolate, some of those properties change

(as is true with other foods). One property that I have read about

is the " caffein effect " . Supposedly there is none in raw beans, only

after some chemical changes that occur after adding heat.

So, if this were for my daughter, I would make a cake that is the

best for her, maybe even an individual cake ALL for her. Then I

would make an icing using ground raw cocoa and honey (and whatever

else you need). trying to stay as SCD as possible and yet providing

a yummy, partly chocolate treat. I guess you would have to

experiment, because I don't know how to make icing.

To find a place to order these, google raw food sites and look for

raw cocoa nibs. I had a site in mind, but couldn't find it and

noticed that there are others that look reputable.

Good luck and if I come up with any other hair brained ideas, I will

share them.

- not yet SCD, but planning to start this week if I get my act

together. :-)

>

> Hi,

> My son's birthday is coming up soon and I had promised him months

> ago a chocolate birthday cake which he reminds me about virtually

> every day! I know I saw somewhere that Folger's coffee bags could

> be use to make an SCD mock " chocolate " and I wondered if I could

> make a cake using an idea like that to look as much like a real

> chcolate cake as possible.

> Now, before anyone goes emailing any sanctimonius diatribes a'la

> McD's a few days ago telling me how bad a mommy I am to want my kid

> to fit in and that your child is happy with a brussel sprout with a

> birthday candle stuck in it and you would never ever give your

child

> something with coffee in it, etc etc, please hear me out.

> (I am normally a very mild mannered non confrontational person but

> this has been eating at me a while so here it is:)

> I wonder how many of you had to do what your kids have to do when

> you were young? Well, I did- I was that kind of highly allergic

> kid. Do you know what it feels like to sit in Pizza Hut with all

> your classmates and eat a rolled up piece of plain ham while

> everyone else is enjoying pizza all around you? I do. Do you know

> what it feels like to sit there with your ears burning and feeling

> red hot and your eyes watering and your head cast down?

> Do you know what it feels like to feel so different and confused

> that you pull out all your eyelashes and pull bald spots in your

> hair, you put blankets over your head and wonder in a detached way

> what it would feel like to just breathe up all the air? I do.

> Or the embarrasment in 7th grade to have to have your mom called

> every day because you break out in huge hives and your eyes swell

> shut after lunch almost every day only to later find it was simply

> because the pre algebra teacher had switched to a new lysol spray

on

> the desks?

> Have you ever peed in your pants almost every day for a time in

> fourth grade because you snuck money and bought chocolate milk at

> lunchtime even though you knew it would bother you and you

shouldn't

> drink it but everyone else was and the teacher was too busy to

> notice or care? Been there, done that.

> Or I could tell you about the time I was so mad at my parents in

2nd

> grade because they wouldn't buy me a giant fundraiser candy bar and

> every other kid in my class brought one in their lunch box, so I

> stole money from my dad's change jar to buy one then was ultra sick

> from both the guilt and the candy.

> I could dredge up a lot more painful memories, but I don't want to.

> I hope I never ever lose that remembrance of being a child like so

> many adults seem to, but I don't want to wallow in the past either.

> Today I am happy and confident and feeling great thanks to the

grace

> of God and marrying the right kind of supportive man. But I do not

> EVER want my child to feel like I did in those bad kind of ways.

> And, if it means buying him an occasional happy meal (that is as

> close to SCD as you can get with a 100% beef patty, apple slices,

> honey and water) then gosh durn it I will and I refuse to feel bad

> about it.

> So, now that I have had my own vent " just like everyone else " then

I

> feel better and am ready to go back to my usual sunshine and

> sweetness and be an uber polite list member!

> If anyone has a great cake recipe or ideas I can try I would

greatly

> appreciate it!

> Thanks,

> Janet, mom to:

> Cody- almost 5 yrs- multiple food allergies- SCD 6 days and doing

> fantastic!

>

[Guest guest]

I saw that a lot of people have responded, but I didn't see this

suggestion. It is very close to chocolate in flavor and it is

definitely brown like a chocolate cake.

Make a 14 Date Cake. Fabulous cake. I don't even like dates, but I

like this cake.

I chop the dates and soak them like the recipe says, but I also puree

them in the food processor. It seems to work better for me.

I do agree with you that it is super hard to be on a special diet,

especially now that practically no kids eat healthy food anymore. At

least when I was young, there were still kids that brought left-overs

from home for school lunch. Nowadays, it seems that just about all of

the kids eat junk food for lunch every day. It's very sad to me, but

it also makes it nearly impossible for our kids to not stand out in a

crowd.

My son is 9 and is really beginning to dislike being different. It's

really hard.

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

I made a 1/2 recipe of the 14 date cake. I think it tasted good (I couldn't eat

it because I

am avoiding eggs, but my daugher ate it). It sank down in the middle and was a

dense

cake. (Yes, I whipped the eggs whites to a stiff peak). The only change I made

to the

recipe was that I used lime juice because I didn't have any lemons.

Next time I will use 2 more egg whites for the 1/2 recipe because I think that

it will turn

out better (hold its shape better). I looked at similar recipes (chiffon cake

recipes) in my

old (non-SCD) cookbooks and they used 7-8 egg whites for a whole recipe. I

think that

the 14 date cake recipe needs more egg whites to hold up the weight of the

dates.

Carolyn

>

> I saw that a lot of people have responded, but I didn't see this

> suggestion. It is very close to chocolate in flavor and it is

> definitely brown like a chocolate cake.

>

> Make a 14 Date Cake. Fabulous cake. I don't even like dates, but I

> like this cake.

>

> I chop the dates and soak them like the recipe says, but I also puree

> them in the food processor. It seems to work better for me.

>

[Guest guest]

It sank down in the middle and was a dense

> cake.

When I have had this problem with other recipes, I have been advised

to lower the heat and bake longer. This advice has done the trick in

my case. You might want to try it.

, mom to