To use a healthy flour, freshly mill organic spelt berries fresh so all the germ and bran is intact. The germ contains the B vitamins that a person needs to support basic life functions. Store bought processed flour doesn’t contain the germ because it makes the flour perishable and need refrigeration. You can buy flour freshly milled flour, without sifting, from Breadtopia.com, and then store it in the freezer. See article What’s a Healing Bread about resources for spelt berries and grain mills. Extra flour will stay fresh in the freezer. Denatured flour from the supermarket causes all degenerative diseases and tooth decay.

It is much healthier to eat a cake where the flour was fermented, as in the kokosh recipe. The freshly milled flour has very important vitamins. Eating flour products that weren’t fermented slows digestion because the unfermented flour becomes paste-like in the gut. The healthiest way to to make this cake is to buy sprouted spelt berries or to sprout (and dehydrate) spelt berries before milling it into flour. If the flour isn’t being fermented in the recipe (like this recipe), then it is best for the flour to be from sprouted grain.

Cacao is rich in protective, antioxidant plant compounds, supports metabolism and immune function, improves cholesterol, supports the heart and cardiovascular system, beneficial for gut health and improves brain function and skin appearance.

Cacao nibs (like from brand Navitas) are the cacao pods chopped into small pieces, with no added ingredients. You can also buy whole cacao pods and chop lightly in the food processor.