Coffee Cake

REALLY MOIST AND REALLY YUMMY

I thought it would be fun to whip up a coffee cake last night. We have music class on Saturday mornings with our friends, and our Aunt Sarah and Uncle Ted often visit before that on their way home from the St. Lawrence Farmer's Market. I wanted to be able to offer something wholesome yet delicious to go with coffee or tea, or to be consumed by the fistful by toddlers from chubby little fingers. You could definitely make this cake as 24 muffins if you didn't want to make it as a large rectangular cake.

This cake is redolent with cinnamon and vanilla, and that slightly complex dark sweetness that comes from maple syrup. It was well enjoyed by everyone, and is really a little too wholesome to be truly a cake or a cupcake, although surprisingly sweet, especially when you consider out how little sweetener there is in it.

ingredients:

1 1/2 cups organic whole milk

2 organic eggs, large

1 tbsp vanilla

1/4 cup extra virgin coconut oil (I prefer Nutiva)

1/2 cup maple syrup

1 tsp sea salt

2 cups fine almond flour (I used JK Gourmet)

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ginger

a quick grind or two of black pepper

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 cup fine kamut flour (whole grain)

1/2 cup organic thompson raisins

1/2 cup chopped pecans

directions:

preheat the oven to 345

1. warm the milk slightly

2. add the coconut oil, and stir until melted

3. add eggs and stir briskly

4. add vanilla and maple syrup, combining well

5. add salt and spices and almond flour, and stir well

6. add baking soda, mix well

7. add kamut flour, and mix thoroughly but briefly

8. add raisins and pecans

9. pour batter into a greased rectangular pan, and sprinkle the top with a little cinnamon and coconut palm nectar

10. alternately, you can bake this in 24 prepared muffin cups (use paper liners if you aren't using silicone)

11. bake at 345 for 35 minutes

I cut my rectangular cake into 24 pieces, so the following information would be the same for the cake or the muffins.

each piece/muffin contains:

1/2 tsp egg

1/2 tsp coconut oil

1 tsp maple syrup

1 tsp raisins

1 tsp pecans

2 tsp kamut flour

3 tsp milk

4 tsp almond flour

etc.

Not such a huge amount of sweetner, and plenty of protein.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.