Multigrain choco- chip cookies

Its been long I have blogged and its even more longer that I have baked some cookies, I was seriously thinking of substituting sugar with something healthier and just the other day I made some jaggery syrup at home. So when I saw my freshly collected home made butter and this jaggery syrup I thought of going a step high in making some crunchy cookies and hence the resultant product. Fine will take you to the recipe too !

Ingredients

Ragi flour - 1/3 cup

Barley flour - 1/2 cup

Powdered coconut- 1/2 cup

Butter - 1/3 cup

Jaggery syrup- 1/3 cup

Sesame seeds - 2-3 tspn

Choco chips - a handful

Baking powder - a pinch

Method

Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl except the choco chips into a soft dough , add the choco chips in the final stage of mixing 

Scoop small quantities of the dough and place in a greased baking tray .

Place the tray in the top rack of the oven and bake in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes and then grill for another few minutes until the top and bottm of the cookie is slightly browned. 

Remove the cookies to a wire rack and let it cool!

Store in an airtight container and enjoy the cookies with your tea

Totally guilt free cookies !! 

Avacado cake with blue berries

Have been venturing out with avocados for sometime now, and this time its cake since I also had some fresh blue berries with me and wanted to try it out too in cakes. 

Following is the recipe

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup

Eggs - 2 no.s

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Baking powder - 1 tspn

Butter - 2 tbspn

Milk - 1/2 cup

Avocado - 1 ( remove the pulp and mash and keep aside)

Blue berries - a handful

Chocochips - a handful

Method

Sift the flour with baking powder and keep aside

Melt the butter in milk and mix the avocados and keep aside

Take a big mixing bowl and break in two eggs and beat till fluffy and then add in the powdered sugar and beat again. Now slowly add in the flour mixture and avocado- butter- milk mixture alternatively and fold in the egg mixture, starting and ending with flour. Throw in the blue berries at this stage and also throw in the choco chips.

Bake in a loaf tin in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celsius for about 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Bake and enjoy :)!

Simplest cake with no butter

Have a major cake in agenda, reason being my son's b'day and on my shopping to procure some stuffs , I found this beautiful butterfly silicon mould. I cudnt stop myselves from buying it , I know many would agree with me in that aspect of 'shopping' :)

Ok anyway that same afternoon my daughter was quite restless missing her brother who started with full day school and hence we both decided to bake a cake which is really really simple. I have heard this recipe before and just last week my friend also told about it and so thought of giving it a try and also to try out my new mould :)

Following is the recipe

Eggs - 3 no.s ( I took country eggs)

Flour- 1/2 cup ( whole wheat )

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Vanilla essence - 1/4 tspn

Milk - 2 tbpsn

Choco chips

Method

Beat eggs with an egg beater till fluffy and double or even the triple its quantity. Slowly add in the powdered sugar and whisk again and also add the vanilla essence. Fold in the flour and and also add the milk. Finally throw in the choco chips ( this is only for the sake of being fancy :) ) and pour in the mould and bake at 170 degrees celsius in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

 

Remove from oven and let it cool.. Serve !

Pretty easy na.. and no butter or oil too...

Bake and enjoy!!!

Avocado orange smoothie

I have been always wrong in getting good avocados, either it will be unripe or rotten or ripe and spoilt. I try my luck again and again and voila , I got a nice one this time. I was feeling like a new baby in my hand .. I know it sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but as I said I was super happy !! Knowing the fact the fruit is super nutritious I wanted to use it as an evening snack for the kids. They would happily reject if I would have tried a guacamole with it.
SO i went ahead to try a smoothie and also had few oranges with me. So follow is what I tried!

INgredients
Avacado- one
Oranges - 3 no.s
Sugar - as required
Choco chips - for garnish and fooling :)

Method
Peel the oranges and remove the juice and keep aside.
Half the avacado and remove the seed. Scoop out the flesh of the avacados in a blender and add in the juice to make a smooth paste. You may add in sugar if you feel it is required.
Remove the smoothie to a tumbler or bowl and throw in some choco chips.
Smoothie is ready!

Want to read more about avacadoes ? read this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado

Choco chip peanut butter cupcakes

Now this recipe is totally inspired seeing my peanut butter jar lying at my cabinet which will get expired soon ! . Neither my kids nor us like the taste of peanut butter so it was just lying like that. I did try peanut butter cookies a while back , so I thought of trying cupcakes this time and it was good! So tells my kidoos who happily munched it off!

Now shall I proceed to the recipe

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup

Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence  1/2 tspn

Egg - 1

Peanut butter - 1/2 cup ( in which 2 tbspns is butter)

Choco chips- a handful

Baking soda- 1/2 tspn

Baking powder - 1/2  tspn

Milk- 1 cup

Method

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder and keep aside. 

Beat together the egg , peanut butter and the butter till soft and fluffy.

Add in the vanilla essence

Fold in the flour and milk alternately till the batter comes to a smooth consistency.

Throw in the choco chips and fold in again

Scoop out the batter with an icecream scoop to the cupcake moulds place with the liner.

Bake in a preheated oven for about 13-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean  at 180 degrees Celsius
 

Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack and get ready to munch on it!  

Coconut choco-chip cookies

Coconut choco-chip cookies

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour- 1 1/2 cup

Fresh grated coconut- 1 1/2 cup

Sugar- 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup

Butter- 1/2 cup

Baking powder- 1/3 tspn

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tspn

Salt - a pinch

Choco chips- 3/4 cup

Method 

Mix all the above ingredients to a soft mixture, the wetness of the grated coconut and butter would be enough to help the mixture come together to form a soft dough.Throw in the choco chips and gently swirl in the dough. Scoop out smal balls and roll it between your palms and place in a greased baking tray and flatten the balls slightly. Repeat the same for the rest of the dough. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 150 degrees celsius for about 10-12 minutes until the top and bottom of the cookies turns brown.

Remove the cookies from the baking tray and let it cool in a wire rack.

Store in airtight containers when cool.

My way of baking cookies in the OTG is as follows

Preheat the oven in bake mode and place the baking tray in the top rack, bake the cookies for some 4-6 minutes or till u feel the bottom would have cooked and then shift it to grill mode so that the top gets cooked and browned for another 5-6 minutes. 

Eggless crunchy choco chip cookies

Egg less crunchy choco chip cookies

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup
Softened butter- 1/2 cup
Crushed or powdered nuts ( I took almonds) - 1/2 cup
Powdered coconut- 1/2 cup
Choco chips- 1/2 cup to 1 cup
Powdered sugar- 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1/2 tspn
Milk- 1/4 cup - 1/3 cup

Method


Mix all the ingredients except the choco chips in a large bowl. Knead into a very soft dough adding few spoons of milk in between to get a sticky soft dough. Finally add the choco chips and mix well.

Drop in cookie dough with spoon or hand in the cookie tray and bake in a preheated oven for around 10 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius

My process of baking cookies is as follows:

I preheat the oven ( I bake in my OTG) for ten minutes at 150 degrees celsius, place the cookie tray in the top rack and bake for around 6-8 minutes, when you feel that the bottom of the cookies are baked slowly shift the mode of the OTG to grill mode and grill for another 5-8 minutes..make sure that the top and bottom should not get dark brown , it should be just golden brown.

Remove the tray from the oven and remove each cookie carefully ( it would be soft ) from the tray using a flat spatula and let cool till it turn crispy and then store in airtight jar.

Barley - cornmeal- almond cookies

Barley- cornmeal- almond cookies

Barley powder- 1 cup
Cornmeal - 1/2 cup
Almond powdered- 1/2 cup
Sugar- 1/2 cup ( powdered)
Butter- 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1/2 tspn
Milk -
Choco chips- one handful (optional)

Method

Mix all the ingredients adding reqd amnt of millk to form a soft dough. Make balls, flatten it with a fork and place in a baking tray at 150 degrees Celsius

Cornflakes chocochip cookies

Cornflakes chocochip cookies

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup
Almonds- 1/2 cup
Sugar- 1/2 cup
Butter- 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1/2 tspn
Choco chips- as required
Corn flakes crushed - a handful
Milk- 4-6 tbspns

Mix all the ingredients except choco chips and cornflakes in a bowl , Add in the milk if required to make a soft dough. Finally add the chocochips and cornflakes and spoon in the dough in a baking tray and bake as said in the description of the cookie album.

Alternatively u can make a ball of the dough and roll in cornflakes and bake it