Carrot and Apple Breakfast Cake with Sweet Maple Pudding

It’s a chilly morning today. Buried under layers upon layers of blankets I decided; before I’d even got out of bed, that there was no way I was going to eat my regular (cold) breakfast of soaked chia seeds, granola, and almond milk, so I opted for something a bit different. My plan was to make a breakfast cake with a sweet pudding over top. Similar to the pudding poke cakes my family enjoyed on our camping outings only ours was from a box and was probably loaded with white sugar, corn syrup, artificial flavours and gluten.

My favourite part of reinventing this recipe while staying in a log cabin was when I spooned coconut oil into my metal measuring cup and placed it on the wood burning stove to melt. Gotta love improvising!

We loved this sweet pudding so much that this will most certainly be our breakfast for the duration of our stay. You don’t need much to fill you up!

Digestion wake-up routine

If you suffer from flatulence early in the morning, exhaustion right after breakfast, unexplainable weight gain, stomach pains, or constipation, try the following digestion wake-up routine.

Start your morning with a tall glass of water with a squeeze of lemon juice this will prepare your stomach for the multiple meals ahead.

After 15 minutes you could try a fruit shake loaded with protein powder, oils, lemon rind, vanilla bean, apples, berries, oils, and anything else that interests you. The shake doesn’t always have to be cold either. I let mine run in the blender for a couple of minutes to warm it up a touch especially in the winter months.

After your shake you can eat your regular breakfast as always. Of course a meal that’s been soaked is always preferred. I chose to soak the almonds and chia seeds in the recipe below to make the meal easier to digest. In the morning our digestion prefers a slow and steady wake up as opposed to a jolt of hard-to-digest foods (unsoaked nuts have this affect).