Raw chocolate avocado cake (Quick and no baking!)

For the little girl's birthday, we needed a gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free birthday cake. A tall order indeed, so we ended up making it ourselves.  It was surprisingly easy to make - it took about 20 minutes. And it tasted good too! It requires no baking and the it makes use of the fact that coconut oil solidifies at temperatures below 25 degrees celsius.  I adapted the recipe from Life, Gluten free Chocolate Pie with Seed Crust Easy Raw Chocolate-Avocado Pie Recipe Crust: 1/2 cup of soaked sunflower seeds 1/2 cup of soaked pumpkin seeds 1/2...

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Beeswax vs Playdough

We love beeswax. Once or twice a week, after story time (a story without illustrations) we get out the beeswax and start creating elements of the story that the have been stirred up in our imaginations. It could be the animals, flowers, the basket of berries carried by the little girl in the story, eggs, anything! Beeswax smells wonderful, like honey, it isn't messy, doesn't crumble, can be used over and over again, and unlike playdough, if you mix the colours together, it doesn't turn into a brown lump of ... something that the dog did! It's also non-toxic, and when you finish molding it,...

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