Category: Cookies

Try this simple recipe created for my husband and daughter who love eating oats and granola bars. Anything from the market is processed so we came up with the idea of marrying the healthy with taste. It is also a good replacement for a quick breakfast with a twist and can be had on the go.

 This recipe would typically make 6 to 7 cupcakes

Ingredients

1. One cup of rolled oats
2. Four tablespoons of peanut butter(melted)
3. Three tablespoons dried cranberries
4. Two tablespoon honey
5. One tablespoon of shredded coconut
6. You can add almonds if you like
7. 200gm melted dark chocolate

Method

1. Combine all ingredients excluding the shredded coconut in a bowl till nicely incorporated
2. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake liners and put the mixture in it. (you can do any other shape but I find it easier to pour chocolate)
3. Drizzle your melted chocolate on top and garnish it with the shredded coconut
4. Pop it in the fridge for 10-15 mins

Enjoy!!

Continuing my Trilogy on Oats related recipes thought of sharing this tasty granola. With summer time, it’s great to add to ice-creams, yogurts and or just munch on this healthy stuff. This one is very simple one and you can control the sugar or skip the sugar and make it healthier.

Ingredients

• Rolled oats – 3 cup.
• Almonds- ¾ cup chopped almonds.
• Pumpkin seeds- ½ cup
• Sunflower seeds- ½ cup
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/8^th tsp cinnamon powder
• 2 tbsp apple juice
• 1 tbsp or 15 gm butter
• 4 Tbsp – honey (you can do 2 tbsp honey and 2 tbsp maple syrup also)
• 1/4^th cup brown sugar (you can skip and add 1-2 tbsp of honey)
• 1 cup of dried fruits (cranberry, blueberry, kiwi…)

Method

1. In a bowl mix the dry ingredients – oats, nuts, seeds, cinnamon, salt .
2. In small bowl melt butter, add sugar, honey and apple juice
3. Mix the wet and dry ingredients and spread on baking tray
4. Bake for 20-25 min at 180 degree in pre heated oven.
5. While baking please keep stirring the mixture and remove once the golden colour is achieved
6. After it’s cooled then add dried fruits and store in airtight container

Hope everyone is careful during the Unlock-1. Virus is still there and we need to live with precautions and get used to new normal. I have been bit caught up in finishing my work assignments so could not share a recipe for last 10 days.  This time I wanted to share something related to Oats which is  healthy.  These Oats cookies are very simple to make and are an instant hit. You can do lot of variations on the same in terms of flour, addons and flavouring.

Ingredients

• Butter – 100gm
• Castor sugar – ½ cup or 100gm
• Egg yolk – 1 [If you want to skip the egg, add 1 tbsp milk powder]
• Maida/All-purpose flour – 1 cup [You can do ½ cup Whole wheat and ½ cup All-purpose or complete whole wheat flour]
• Oats – 1/3 rd cup
• Baking soda – ½ tsp
• Walnuts / Chocochip – ¼ th cup or any nuts crushed. *

Method

1. Sift together flour and baking soda. Add the oats also. Keep aside.
2. Cream together butter and sugar
3. Add the egg [or milk powder with 1-2 tsp of milk]
4. Add flour with oats, nuts or choco chips
5. Mix all the ingredients in the form of batter
6. Make shapes or spoon the mixture in baking trays.
7. Keep in fridge for 15 min or so
8. Bake in preheated oven at 160 degree for 10-12 min
9. Cool them on wire rack

Variations in flavour could be adding some custard powder or some nutmeg or chocolate chunks or raisins. It gives very different flavour and texture.

Baking cookies has such a great memory for me, the whole house smells yum and the crunch of freshly baked cookie is so different.  Due to my love of baking cookies, I have always made young friends who are ready to barter doing stuff for this cookie.  Not sure of others but baking cookies just brings in happiness in the house. I was doing samples for today and suddenly the heavenly smell pulled everyone to come near the oven and wait for the cookie to be baked. Tea/Milk time become a happy sharing and built memories.

This traditionally originated in USA and is a drop cookie. It is very easy to make. I have tried to make the traditional recipe healthy and tried to give a eggless twist.

Ingredients

• Butter- 120 gm (softened not melted)
• Castor sugar- ¼ cup
• Brown Sugar- ½ cup
• 1 ¼ cup flour – ( you can use full all purpose flour or 50% whole wheat and 50% flour or 1 cup whole wheat and ¼ cup all-purpose flour)
• Baking Soda- ½ tsp
• Egg – 1  (for eggless 3 tbsp Milk powder + 3 tbsp Milk)
• Chcoco chip – 1 cup ( or any chocolate chunks)
• Vanilla essence- ½ tsp

Method

1. Mix flour and Soda together and keep aside
2. Beat Sugar and Butter together till it becomes creamy
3. Add egg  or Milk powder and milk. Pl be careful do not over add the milk as batter will become watery
4. Beat the same and add essence
5. Now add the flour + soda. Beat slightly and try and get the mixture together with hand like a dough. Add choco- chips and save some for some for decoration.
6. Take a tbsp and drop cookie on a baking tray with parchment paper.  Cookies should be away atleast 3-4 inches as they will tend to become three times the size after baking
7. You can slightly press the drop by adding some additional choco chip on top
8. Put the tray in fridge to set for at least half an hour
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 160 degree for 15 min or so. The test is cookie should move freely in the oven.
10. Please note cookie will continue baking once u take out the tray. So after 5 min remove from tray and put on wire rack to cool. Incase u find your cookie under cooked unlike a cake it can go back to the oven again.

Variations – Apart from Choco-chip you can add chocolate chunks or any kind of additions like nuts.  To give it a vanilla cookie flavour you can add 1 tbsp custard powder and skip chocolate.

Tip : If butter is melted cookies will not get height but will be flattened.  Do not skip the fridge part before baking the cookies otherwise you will have unshaped cookies.

Hello to everyone, it has been a long time that I posted something.  Between lockdown and lot of pressure from friends and relatives, finally I am back and this time I promise to be more regular.

My daughter is just fond of eating calories and loves Nutella in any form. Last year I had chanced upon this recipe and regularly make this at home.  My little brat suggested this to be shared as it has limited ingredients.

Nutella cookies are eggless and it has only three ingredients. Yes! You heard it correct it has only three ingredients.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Nutella
• 1 Cup All-purpose flour/Maida
• ½ cup thick curd

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients together with a beater or hand whisk
2. You can pipe them with a star nozzle or put small roundels with spoon
3. Put them in fridge for some time to make them firm while baking
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven for 180 degree for 8-10 min
5. Cookies are ready

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This is simplest one without having any rising agent and it is fun for a Nutella lover