Rating: 7/10
(The rating system for foods is out of 10 as opposed to 5 purely because there's so much more to consider with foods).
This week a lovely package arrived!! I'd been lusting after Kate Magic's chocmas cake from raw living for some time and a few days ago I took the plunge, opting for half a cake!
I've tried Dedicakeshun (easily a 10/10) and the famous Quantum cake (which I'd give a 9/10, maybe it's because I ate it with dedicakeshun, or because i got confused by the taste of hemp seed), and I was not disappointed! I've got to admit that I'm not 100% raw, I love raw foods and I think that the innovation involved in so many of the dishes is amazing. But alas, I have food issues that don't permit me to commit to the raw lifestyle.
Back to the cake; chocmas is a superfood packed raw cake that smells just like lebkuchen. And I LOVE lebkuchen. It's covered in raw chocolate and topped off with cherries (I think) and almonds. It's suitable for type 2 diabetics as it uses a combination of low GI sweeteners such as agave, lucuma and xylitol (which has the added benefit of fighting dental plaque), but it's best to check this with your doctor if you are unsure! Anecdotally speaking, my housemate who has type 2 diabetes had a slice and suffered no spike in her blood sugar, which is pretty fantastic if you ask me.
The texture is unlike Dedicakeshun and Quantum cake in that it's a bit drier and as a result is more crumbly, my friend compared it to the halva slabs they used to sell in health stores, which are also made from tahini (sesame seed paste).
The one difficulty with the cake was that the raw chocolate topping/surround was really hard, and we had to give up after managing to cut the first bit for fear of slipping and slicing a limb off (we're quite clumsy around here). On the plus side, this means it will last longer than dedicakeshun or quantum cake would in our household!
Another thing to mention is that despite being delicious the clove can get a bit overpowering and the combination of clove and ginger can make your mouth burn a bit (sort of like when you have cayenne pepper or chilli) but this could be because of the suma...maybe?
It also costs £7 more for half a chocmas cake than a dedicakeshun or a quantum cake and is £9 more for a whole cake, with both the dedicakeshun and quantum cakes costing £36 and the chocmas costing £45. This might be because the combined cost of sesame seeds, tahini, he shou wu and the flavourings (spices & orange oil) comes to more than the other recipes, or it could be a christmas marketing supply-and-demand issue
It is for those reasons that I decided to give it a 7/10.
Ingredients: Sesame seeds, Cacao nibs, Lucuma, Olive oil, cacao butter, Cacao powder, Maca, Xylitol, Tahini, Agave nectar, Suma, He shou wu, Purple corn extract, orange oil, cinnamon, ginger, cloves.
Borrowed from http://www.rawliving.eu/
If you sign up to Kate's magic bubble not only will you be offered 10% off all orders you place with raw living, but if you sign up by tomorrow then you will be sent the recipe for the famous quantum cake! According to the site you can cancel at any time, monthly membership is £10 and yearly membership is currently £95 which is 20% off the usual price!!
*** I don't know whether the offer of the recipe has changed, no change has been advertised but my friend says that the offer is ongoing for all members, instead of being sent to you when you register you're invited to e-mail something to them like a recipe or a piece of writing and then they will send the recipe back to you....has anyone got any ideas??***
Kate Magic runs raw living with Chris and their team of loyal helpers, they specialise in all things raw and dabble in some awesome looking fitness equipment, check out the Om gym. . . does anyone else have visions of themselves getting stuck in it and having to wait for their housemate/boyfriend/parents to get home and rescue you?
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