Easy paleo chocolate sponge-cake

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.

Oatmeal from our childhood turned into a chocolatey treat

As a Christmas present, my brother and his girlfriend had given me a jar containing most of the ingredients for a paleo biscuit, layered up nicely. I put the jar on my kitchen table as a decoration for now, but as we were sitting there, sipping our morning tea and coffee, we started a conversation about whether or not oats can be considered paleo, because the main ingredient in the jar are oats. Miki said that they were fine as long as they were pure, meaning that they are free from gluten. This made him remember that he actually had some pure oats at home, and a recipe quickly unfolded. Now, I have to tell you about one more thing.