If you have adopted the Paleo lifestyle for your diet plan, you may be under the notion there are no such things as Paleo diet desserts. Or at least, nothing that even tastes remotely like dessert. You may eat something after the main course, and the sequence of the dish may suggest that it can qualify as a dessert course, but the blandness of your choice may make the term dessert
somewhat of a misnomer. Or you can go the other extreme: you can eat something truly delectable (like a cake, for instance), but the sweetness of the dessert may violate the fundamentals of the Paleo diet plan.
Fortunately, there is a happy compromise. In fact, compromise may not accurately describe your option, because you can actually have the best of both worlds. You can have something truly yummy, and you can still lose some weight as you follow the Paleo plan. You can even have something as wicked as a cake, and yet still be within the Paleo guidelines. It’s a win-win situation.
The secret to having your cake and eating it too is to make sure that you don’t use grain flour and refined sugar for your Paleo diet desserts. These are definite no-no’s according to the Paleo rules. But you can find acceptable alternatives so that the diet desserts can still be tasty, thereby avoiding the blandness and tastelessness, which is not what a dessert should taste like.
A Paleo walnut cake is a good example. You will need the following ingredients:
• 6 large eggs
• 3 cups or 750 grams of ground walnuts
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• 6 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 4 tablespoons agave nectar
• 2 tablespoons almonds butter
Preparation:
1. Separate the egg white from the yolk of each egg. Whisk the egg whites well, and add 2 tablespoons of the agave nectar by drops during the whisking.
2. Preheat the oven.
3. Take a non-stick cake pan with a detachable ring. Place parchment paper in the pan and grease the paper with several drops of vegetable oil.
4. Add the walnuts to the egg whites. Mix them slowly so you won’t flatten the egg whites.
5. Transfer the mixture onto the pan and then place it in the oven. Baking should be with very low heat, for about an hour and a half to two hours.
6. Place the egg yolks in a pot, and mix in the cocoa powder, the melted almonds butter, several drops of water, and the remaining tablespoons of agave nectar.
7. Use the bain-marie method to boil the mixture. If you don’t know what that is, just get a bigger pot and fill half of it with water and then boil it. When the water begins to boil, place the pot with the egg yolk mixture on top of the larger pot. Do this for about 30 minutes. This will serve as the chocolate sauce for the cake.
8. Get the cake from the oven and place it on a plate. Pour the chocolate sauce on top and place in the fridge for several hours before you serve it.
It’s that easy!
With Paleo diet desserts, you can obey the dictates of your sweet tooth, without negatively affecting your weight loss goal.