Easy paleo chocolate sponge-cake

Standard

Coffee & cake on the balcony (a.k.a. heaven)

Every now and then there are occassions when I feel like I am a very spoiled girlfriend, whose life can’t get any better. I present you one of those occassions. This was every bit as good as it looks in the picture. The pic was taken on a bright Sunday morning out on my balcony. The cake was made (and was half eaten 😛 ) the previous evening though, which gives extra awesomeness points to this I think – I mean, waking up to leftover cake in the fridge? 🙂
Before I tell you all there is to know about the sponge-cake, I would like to dedicate a few thoughts to the coffee as well. I became a coffee drinker when I started working after university, and it is now a part of my everyday routine. Miki became a coffee drinker a few months into our relationship. 😀 And we fit it nicely into our paleo diet, because we have it either with coconut milk, coconut cream, almond milk or hazelnut milk, and sweeten it with erythritol. Sometimes a bit of vanilla also makes its way into the cups. 🙂

This wasn’t the first (or, hopefully, the last) time Miki made me sponge-cake, but it was definitely the first time that he put so much strawberry on top. 😀 He has a standard, basic recipe for the cake and of course the toppings can be varied in endless ways.

Continue reading