cake baking

Triple Hemp Cake

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup hemp oil
• 3 cups demerrera sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3 tbsps vanilla
• 4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup hemp flour
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup hulled hempseeds

1 - Pre-heat oven to 250°F
2 - Mix hemp oil, demerrera sugar, water and vanilla together.
3 - In a separate bowl, mix together whole wheat flour, hemp flour, baking powder, salt and hempseeds.
4 - Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and slowly stir in the wet mixture. Mix until just blended, do not overmix.
5 - Pour the mixture in a non-stick or sprayed 9 x 12 cake pan. Bake for 1/2 hour, rotate the pan and bake for 30 - 40 mins more or until a kinfe inserted comes out clean.

SHIT! I forgot the vanilla.  Oh well, I can put it on the frosting.  This recipe is courtesy of Puff Mama, a Hempster out of Toronto who's doing some really great stuff.  I made it last year for sOMa's b-day party and it was a hit.  Aside from its Hempiness, the best part about it is that it's vegan! 

I'm looking forward tomorrow's party.  When the kids have many other kids to play with, it takes a lot of pressure off the parents.  And it gives the parents a chance to hang out with adults while still being in a parental role.  It's pretty magical.  It's going to be interesting to see the mix at this party.  There's quite a variety of personalities in seven kids aged two to ten.

It may give me a little glimpse of how schooling for sOMa could look.  There is an independent school not far from us in Cobble Hill that really resonates from it's first impression.  We  would have to look closely at it before deciding but one of the really appealing things about it was multi-aged classrooms.  That and it cost less than Waldorf... and it was closer.

We're still not convinced we'll feel like giving up homeschooling either.

We'll wait until after the party tomorrow to make a decision there.  Right now, there's too much to do getting ready in our new place for guests and we certainly don't want to wish his early years away.  Conventionally, kindergarden is still a year and a half away... which blows my mind as he feels quite old enough for that now.  It's certain that he could use the social outlet.

A party will be so good for him.