You guys. I made a healthy ice cream cake!!
Okay, so this isn’t entirely true. I made a healthy ice cream + cheesecake + carrot cake. Yeah, I know, it got a little bonkers. But, I promise it got weird in the best way possible.
After finishing the Whole 30, my brain was swirling with desserts. Can you blame me? So when the folks from Paleo Parents sent me a very nice e-mail asking me to write a guest post for their blog, I decided to go big. My brain flipped the “LET THERE BE CAKE!!” switch. So here. Cake. All the cakes. Smashed together into one glorious no-bake cake.
It’s always super flattering when someone asks you to guest post on their blog. It’s like trusting someone to babysit. You don’t just find a babysitter any ol’ place… like Craigslist, a bar, or a back alley (unless you do. #redflag). You’re probably going to interview them first and ask them if they know things like CPR or how to fish a marble out of a nostril. You need to trust the person. You need to know that your baby will be safe with them. You need to know that they won’t invite their smarmy boyfriend over to “watch movies” after the kid goes to bed. In this fake scenario, I’m pretty sure the blog is the baby and the guest poster is the babysitter. Iron clad analogy, amiright? No one seems to be nodding their heads.
But, to continue with it anyway (because we’ve come this far), I wanted to be a really great babysitter. You know the kind. The babysitter that does crafts and travels with a guitar. The kind that make friendship bracelets and lanyards, attends make believe tea parties, and will make your stuffed animals talk in different voices. You know, the kind of babysitter that tricks you into eating healthy food because it’s so darn delicious. The kind that sneaks a thimble of whiskey into a bottle and makes bananas into ice cream. So, Ta-dahhhh! I’m babysitting the heck out of things. Next up, we’re going to make necklaces out of gluten-free Cheerios and stay up past our bedtime. Pillow fight?
Ugh, okay. I’ll just stop. In short, I think this whole whacked out analogy could be summed up in a sentence or two: I’m honored to be guest posting on Paleo Parents. I made a crazy delicious cake (with the longest name ever). I’m not great with metaphors, however I’m a great babysitter #humblebrag. But, seriously. Cake.
To get the recipe, CLICK HERE and head on over to Paleo Parents!
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what an awesome recipe and beautiful photography… thanks for sharing! glad I stumbled across your website, I definitely will be back!
So this is totally off the topic of fabulous banana ice cream carrot cheesecakes, but your babysitter analogy got me to thinking…have you ever read the Babysitter’s Club books? I used to love those! And they had these awesome kid kits with all kinds of activities in them—coloring books and puzzles and stuff—and I made one that I took with me on babysitting jobs to keep the kids entertained. All your fun babysitter ideas made me think of that. You would blow the Babysitter’s Club out of the water! Especially if you made this delicious cake.
This was YUMazing!!! Made it exactly as written, except that I made it in an 8″x8″ square pan lined with nonstick foil. My whole family *loved* it.. Each layer was super tasty on its own, but the combination was serendipilicious. The banana ice cream wanted to slip off of the carrot cake crust, but nobody cared. As I always do with new recipes, I asked for suggestions for how to tweak the recipe for next time: ZERO suggestions. Unprecedented. It is definitely time-consuming, but very worth it when you want something healthful, beautiful, special, and *delicious*.
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