Desserts

Desserts are possible on Auto-Immune Paleo, hooray!!  There are many recipes online to be had, as well as in the new AIP cookbooks.  I have just explored a few of them, with results worth blogging about!  There is pie, truffles, fruit parfait, and macaroons to be had!

Remember the adage, desserts spelled backwards is stressed!  

All joking aside, desserts will sadly not reverse our stress, only you can do that by changing your environment and learning to meditate.  Just by learning to meditate, your circumstances will naturally change to suit you best.  Then you will find that refined cane sugar will be a benefit to your inner peace, and will become a calming aid to you.  

Sweeteners

Just a note, as you may have gathered, I do have a different philosophy about sugar than most Western mindsets.  For that reason, I do occasionally include refined cane sugar in some of my dessert recipes and baked goods as a sweetener.  I do not use corn syrup, or other corn-derived sweeteners.  I also do not use beet sugar.  I do not use any chemical sugar substitutes as they immediately give me a headache.  I find stevia to be cloyingly sweet and competing with the taste of the other ingredients, so I do not as a rule, use it.  Perhaps it would go with something as strong such as mint somehow... hmmm...  Anyway, I have experimented with agave syrup, but tend not to use it too much.  Sweeteners I tend to use include refined cane sugar, sucanat, maple syrup, and honey.  

Allergens

Also, for allergen consideration, all of my dessert recipes are completely vegan, nut-free, and gluten-free.  I use ingredients from seeds such as vanilla, cocoa, nutmeg, and other spices.  The body seems to be much more stressed out from allergens than it is from glycemic load.  And since desserts when made with quality ingredients actually contain quite a bit of nutrition, it can be part of a healthy diet in moderation.  

Dessert	AIP	Vegan	Possible Allergens	Sweetener
Apple Galette		X	grains, fruit	sugar
Coconut Macaroons	X	X	coconut	dates
Coconut Snowballs	X	X	coconut, dates, maple syrup	maple syrup
Fresh Fruit Parfait	X	X	coconut, fruit	sugar
Chocolate Truffles		X	cocoa, coconut	sugar

~ Happy eating!