Showing posts with label almond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label almond. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2020

SUPERFOOD ENERGY BARS

Have you ever tried making Energy bars at home, using some super foods? If not, here is the easiest recipe. Every single ingredients I have used here for the energy bar, adds its own health benefits ranging from essentials like protein, vitamins and minerals. And you have kids at home, they are surely going to like this.



Ingredients :

1. Almonds - 1/3 cup
2. Cashews  -1/3 cup
3. Chia seeds - 1 tsp
4. Walnuts - 1/4 cup
5. Pistachio  -1/4 cup
6. White sesame seeds - 1 tsp
7. Date - 1/2 cup (seedless)
8. Cardamom powder - a pinch (optional)
9. Pinch of salt
10. Rolled oats - 1/2 cup 

Process:

1. Firstly take a bowl, add a cup of lukewarm water and pour the dates. Keep aside for 40-45 minutes. Now put them in a grinder and make a smooth paste.
2. In a frying pan, dry roast all the super foods till they spread a good aroma.
3. Now add the date puree to the nuts and give a good mix, you can add a pinch of salt and cardamom powder if you wish to (optional). Once you add date puree, it will start sticking together with all the nuts, if its not sticking together, you can add 1 tbsp of warm water also to make a soft and crunchy dough. 
4. Dry roast the rolled oats and grind them well to powdered form and add them in the mixture and give a good mix. Once the dough is ready, in a flat tray, place a butter paper or you can just grease the tray (if you do not have butter paper) and dump the dough and press firmly. To get the bars nice and smooth on top, wet your fingers and use them to smooth out the surface. 
5. Once the bars are ready, use the edges of the butter paper to lift the bars out of the tray and place on to a cutting board, and cut into pieces.



Saturday, June 20, 2020

ALMOND COFFEE CAKE

It's my niece's birthday today (19th June 2020). Though she is far away from me, I just thought to make a cake so that when she is cutting her birthday cake, I can also enjoy my piece of cake. This is my second experiment in baking a cake in Kadhai and this time also it came out fluffy, soft and tasty. I have used used normal Nescafe coffee powder, not any coffee essence. I just loved the cake.


Ingredients :

1. Wheat flour - 1 cup
2. Sugar - 1/2 cup
3. Baking powder - 1 tsp
4. Butter - 1/2 cup
5. Milk (boiled and cold) - 1/2 cup
6. Dry fruits - 1 tsp
7. Eggs - 2 
8. Salt - pinch of
9. Nescafe coffee powder - 1 tsp

Process :

1. Grease the cake tray. Dust with flour evenly and set aside.
2. Pour milk and suger in a mixing bowl and stir until sugar dissolves. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Gently mix until the flour is combined well. Start adding eggs one by one and keep mixing. Lastly add coffee powder and mix well.
3. Once the batter is ready, pour this in the cake tray.
4. Heat the heavy bottom kadai for 10 minutes and then place a steel stand (optional) inside the kadai and place the cake tray. If you do not have a steel stand, you can directly place cake tray in the kadhai. Sprinkle dry fruits in the top and cover with a lid.
5. Let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes. After 15 minutes you can check by putting a knife side the cake, if the knife comes out clean, means the cake is done, else you can cook for another 5 minutes. 

Your Almond Coffee cake is ready to serve. You can garnish it with some more chopped almonds. 



Do share your experience while trying this cake.
Happy Baking.