Follicular Phase Carrot & Pear Cakes

Written By Leanne de Groot

Ingredients:

  • 3 tbsp of freshly ground flax seeds

  • 9 tbsp water

  • 2 cups raw organic oats

  • 1/4 tsp sea salt

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 tbsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp cardamon, 1 tsp ginger

  • 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract

  • 1/3 cup maple syrup

  • 1 large pear roughly chopped

  • 1 cup grated carrot

  • 1/4 cup melted coconut oil

  • 1/4 cup unsweetened non-dairy mylk of your choice

  • Optional seeds or nuts to decorate

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350℉ and line a 12-hole muffin tin with liners.

In a small bowl combine flax meal and water. Stir a few times to combine and then let sit for 5 minutes and watch it form into a gel.

Put your oats, salt, baking power, baking soda and spices in a thermomix or blender. Blend until oats look more like a coarse flour.

After the flax + water has had some time to gel, pour it into the blender with the oat flour mixture. Add the vanilla, maple syrup, pear, carrots, coconut oil, and mylk. Blend until batter has a smooth consistency. You may need to scrape down the sides of the blender a few times and then keep on blending until everything is incorporated.

Portion out the mix between the 12 lined muffin holes - sprinkle a few seeds or nuts on top

Bake at 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Allow to cool completely (the middle may be a bit moist fresh out of the oven) and enjoy or store in fridge for up to a week or freeze for a future treat.

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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