Chocolate Ginger Cake with Maple Frosting

Man this is delicious and warming during cold weather! Just what you need to cap of an afternoon of snowballs and sledding Adapted from Moosewood's Book of Desserts. Their recipes are some of the building blocks to happiness.

I made the Chocolate Ginger Cake for my sweetheart's birthday. It'll make you swoon! Plus it's full of beneficial Omega 3's.

What you Need

3/4 cup organic sugar

2 tablespoons organic molasses

2/3 cup hemp milk

1/3 cup applesauce

1/4 cup organic canola oil

2 free range eggs (get your Omega 3's)

2 tsp Madagascan vanilla

1 cup organic spelt flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp ground organic cinnamon

1 tablespoon freshly grated organic ginger

Mix all wet ingredients together. Sift all dry ingredients together. Combine. Stir in Grated Ginger. Pour into 8x8 baking pan or 9in round.

Bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes. Check center with toothpick at 30 minutes and bake till it comes out clean.

Organic Maple Frosting

1/2 cup organic butter softened

2 1/2 cups organic powdered sugar

1 tsp Madagascan vanilla

1/4 cup organic maple syrup

Chocolate Sunflower Cookies and Huckleberry Waffles

Teddy Bear Sunflower

Heirloom Mix

Chocolate Sunflower Cookies

Inspired by my Heirloom and Chocolate Sunflowers growing in my gardens this past summer. These cookies are not short on sugar or fat so you're sure to enjoy them.

3/4 cup Spelt flour

1/2 cup ground sunflower seeds (use a coffee grinder or handmill)

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 stick organic butter softened

1 cup organic sugar

3 tablespoons organic molasses

2 tsp organic vanilla

1 free roaming, organic egg

1 cup ghiradelli chocolate chips

Allow butter to soften at room temp for one day or place on a plate near heat from the oven heating up 375 degrees.


Sift with a fork spelt flour, sunflower meal, salt and baking soda


Use hand blender or cake mixer to work sugar and molasses into butter. This can be done by hand, however I have finally conceded to the electric hand mixer as the butter needs the sugar to add some air and texture to it's density.

Add vanilla and egg to butter and sugar

Add dry to wet and hand mix until well incorporated

Pour in chocolate chips and mix well

Spoon Tablespoon size balls onto cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes

We also like to pick extra huckleberries, particularly in September as the sugars have more time to develop and are rich and seasoned by them. This is primarily due to cooler nights in conjunction with warm days.

Sunflower Huckleberry Waffles with Apple Honey

1 1/2 cup spelt flour
3/4 cup ground sunflower seeds
1 tablespoon baking powder
3 eggs separated
1/4 cup organic canola oil
1 cup water
3 tablespoons organic hemp milk
Frozen Huckleberries

Mix dry set aside

Separate egg whites and reserve for later

Beat egg yolk and oil and add to Dry and Mix

Add 3 tablespoons dry milk and 1 cup hemp milk to batter

Stir in huckleberries

Fill waffle iron with 1/4 cup batter

Serve warm

Makes about 10 waffles

Apple Honey Syrup

Splash of organic apple and organic juice

Few Tablespoons Local Honey

Heat honey on stovetop with both juices until well constituted. Pour into open glass and allow to set up at room temperature.

Waffles can be dipped or drizzled with Apple Honey Syrup