{"id":4032,"date":"2015-05-09T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascensionkitchen.com\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:09:16","slug":"raw-feijoa-kiwifruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascensionkitchen.com\/raw-feijoa-kiwifruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Feijoa Kiwifruit Cake for Mother's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raw Feijoa Kiwifruit Cake, an Autumn recipe free from dairy, gluten and refined sugars. Sweet and creamy with a lemon tang.<\/em><\/p>\n Before we get into today's beautiful Raw Feijoa Kiwifruit Cake, I have a confession to make: I am currently suffering from a chronic case of perfectionism. And until I can work through it and move past it, all I can do is lay it on the table and say I’m stuck in a sticky web of my own doing. You see, I’ve been trying to get my new website live, for oh, six months now. To be fair, I’ve been incredibly busy – work, study, setting up a business, you know, life.<\/p>\n But that should only account for a few months’ worth of my delayed launch. The rest? It’s my over critical mind! I am totally aware that in my need for things to be ‘just so’ – I am in fact crippling myself from publishing it and letting you guys enjoy the new look and offering! It’s absolute craziness! Can anyone else relate to perfectionism? I saw a great quote recently – ‘perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.’ Does that resonate? It does for me.<\/p>\n I’m a Virgo. And if you don’t know, us Virgos are incredibly special people. Interestingly, the intestines are ruled by Virgo – and the intestines, just like us Virgos, are great at working, processing, analysing and separating. We’re also ruled by the planet Mercury – the planet of communication, the mind, and thoughts. Is there any hope for those of us with perfectionist tendencies who have the double-whammy of being the hard-working, critical Virgo?!<\/p>\n Of course there is. Part of it is just bringing this into your awareness so that you can work on it. Phew. So, I’m not claiming to have got there yet, but just wanted to put it out there. Because perfectionist tendencies pave the way to stress and digestive issues (being so ‘up tight’, not letting go, over processing things) and need to be unravelled and replaced with self love.<\/p>\n As an aside – I’ve noticed in my coaching practice that often digestive disturbances tend to be present in those incredible individuals with the A type personality and aforementioned perfectionist streak…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n So: I here by solemnly swear to launch this website sooner rather than later in spite of my self-critical nature. It is beautiful. And it is enough. You will bloody love it. Please hold me to this. Comment on my facebook page if time lapses and you see nada. Help a sister out.<\/p>\n I can genuinely see that this pattern isn’t serving me and I have some creative, soft and loving ways in mind to help release it and move forward. As I said earlier, I’m sure that even just bringing this into your awareness means you’re half way there. You know what, if I can get over perfectionism – then anyone can!<\/p>\n In the meantime, I have been procasta-baking this week. Admittedly because I couldn’t find the right words for a page on my new site so I went to kitchen to mull things over. Silly I know, but guess what, you get to enjoy a very yummy recipe now.<\/p>\n I wanted to make a cake for Mother’s Day to share. So I made one. And it was yummy but I had a brainwave after the fact to make a new one using lovely autumn fruit – because – feijoas – yum (hard to find in Australia by the way – usually the more speciality fruit stores have them). So I went and made a second one (see what I did there? More absurd perfectionism creating more work for myself – two cakes! Two!!).<\/p>\n So, please admire the first, Raw Snicker’s Cake below. It’s really quite lovely (and I’ll share it sometime soon).<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Today however, you have a beautiful Raw Feijoa Kiwifruit Cake, with coconut, lemon and lucuma, sweetened with organic rice malt syrup.<\/p>\n Hope you enjoy it, and have a really special day with your mama’s tomorrow.<\/p>\n Love, your Virgo friend.<\/p>\n Lx<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nI frequently do the following:<\/h3>\n
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And here’s the double whammy.<\/h3>\n
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Raw Feijoa Kiwi Cake<\/h2>\n