Bite Size Eggless Cinnamon Rolls/ Florets

Bite Size Eggless Cinnamon Rolls/ Florets 

When you have to host a party or arrange a potluck for kids or need to send some goodies to your kid's school for some party and they request you to make something pretty and yummy. Like me are you in a fix too??

Well, with me the occasion was a secret Santa that was planned for the kids in my apartment. And we all thought of bringing something from each family for the kids. I wanted to make something gorgeous yet yummy and dessert of course as kids loves sweets...:D 

I first wanted to make chocolate Kringle from my last post, but then it was too much of work on cutting and serving them to the kids. So though of making something bite size. 

I eventually ended up baking these lovely cinnamon bread Florets. Kids loved them ,and I was super Happy ..:) <3

Also as a part of celebration these Cinnamon bites goes to Angie' Fiesta  Friday Co hosted by Kalia and Mr. Fitz..
 Happy FF guys..  I was away from FF for quite a while,  but I am Back now... :-) :-) 

Ingredients

For dough

-  3/4 cup plain flour/ Maida+ some for rolling and dusting.

- 1/4 cup powdered sugar

- 2 tbsp. milk powder

- 1/2 cup warm milk ( 2-3 Tbsp for brushing included ) 

- 3/4 tsp. active yeast

- 4 tbsp melted butter+ 1-2 for greasing 

For cinnamon butter

- 2 tbsp room temperatures butter

- 2 tbsp cinnamon powder

- 2 tbsp powdered sugar. 

Process

1. We will make the cinnamon butter first.  In a small bowl, take together butter cinnamon powder and icing sugar and mix them throughly. And keep this aside.

2. Take a small bowl, and add warm milk and powdered sugar. Mix them together till sugar dissolves completely.

2. Now add yeast to this mix, and stir. Let this milk rest for at least 10 minutes, or till yeast becomes frothy.

3. In a separate big bowl, take together flour and milk powder. Mix them nicely.

4. Once, yeast has bloomed nicely. Add this yeast milk to the flour bowl little by little.

5. Once entire milk is added to the flour, what you will have with you will be an absolutely sticky dough.

6. Now take 4 tbsp of melted butter and add to the dough.

7. And, start kneading the dough. Knead this for around 8-10 minutes. 

8. As you knead the dough eventually it will,start coming together. Though it will not be a firm dough but decent enough to bake a rough dough ball.

9. Grease the dough a little, and cover with kitchen towel or cling wrap and place this at hot spot for atleast an hour, or till the dough becomes double in size.

10. Once done, Knock the dough to deflate all the air. 

11. Since even now the dough will be sticky, take some additional dry flour and knead the dough to turn it into workable dough. It will take your 3-4 tbsp more flour to make sticky dough into firm dough ball.

12. Now, roll the dough ball in rectangular big disc.

13. Spread cinnamon butter evenly on the dough disc.

14 now, using your finger tips very gently roll the Disc vertically in one big log. 

15. Once done, taking a sharp knife cut 1.5 inch pieces from the log, as shown in pic. Below.

16. grease a muffin pan with some butter.

17. Place each small cube cut from log in each muffin mould. As shown in pic. Below 

18. Once dorm with rest, cover with kitchen cloth and let this rest for at least 20 minutes.

19. In the meanwhile pre heat the oven at 180 degrees C.

20. Bake the rolls in pre heated oven for 20 + minutes or till the rolls becomes nicely golden brown. In between brush them with milk at least twice. 

Your gorgeously cute cinnamon bites are ready..:) 

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Chochlate and Hazelnut Bread Kringle

Chochlate and Hazelnut Bread Kringle

With Christmas just around the corner, celebration begins from the previous weekend itself.

I have very fond childhood memories of Christmas. As I have done my schooling from a Christian school, Christmas use to be a big affair there. A month long celebration, distributing chocolates to classmates and friends, playing secret Santa, going to church and a month long vacation. Everything use to be fabulous.

As I grew, meaning of Christmas celebration also went a step ahead. Decorating  our home, shopping, personalised gifts, selecting gift that obviously parents would surprise you with .. :D

Today, being a mommy myself, I want to make this festival all the more special for my baby. I am baking baking and baking these days from cookies to cakes to breads and what not...:) and I am in love with this festive spirit...:) <3

Today I tried this festive bread, with chocolate spread, crushed hazelnuts and melt in mouth buttery soft bread.

Let me also tell you, I had made bite size of these kringles for a kid's birthday party recently. And, kids loved them throughly..:) 

Ingredients

- 3/4 cup plain flour/ Maida+ some for rolling and dusting 

- 1/4 cup powdered sugar

- 2 tbsp milk powder

- 3/4 tsp. active dry yeast ( If you are using instant dry yeast, double the quantity)

- 1/2 cup warm milk+ 3-4 tbsp for brushing

- 1/4 cup butter

- 3-4 tbsp. any chocolate spread, I have used Nutella

- 3-4 tbsp crushed almonds/ cashew / hazelnuts ( I have used hazelnuts)

Process

1. Take a small bowl, and add warm milk and powdered sugar. Mix them together till sugar dissolves completely.

2. Now add yeast to this mix, and stir. Let this milk rest for at least 10 minutes, or till yeast becomes frothy.

3. In a spears big bowl, take together flour and milk powder. Mix them nicely.

4. Once, yeast has bloomed nicely. Add this yeast milk to the flour bowl little by little.

5. Once entire milk is added to the flour, what you will have with you will be an absolutely sticky dough.

6. Now take 4 tbsp of melted butter and add to the dough.

7. And, start kneading the dough. Knead this for around 8-10 minutes. 

8. As you knead the dough eventually it will,start coming together. Though it will not be a firm dough but decent enough to bake a rough dough ball.

9. Grease the dough a little, and cover with kitchen towel or cling wrap and place this at hot spot for  an hour, or till the dough becomes double in size.

10. Once done, Knock the dough to deflate all the air. 

11. Since even now the dough will be sticky, take some additional dry flour and knead the dough to turn it into workable dough. It will take your 3-4 tbsp more flour to make sticky dough into firm dough ball.

12. Now, roll the dough ball in rectangular big disc.

13. Spread chocolate spread evenly on the dough disc, as shown in pic. Below

14. Sprinkle crushed nuts on top of chocolate. As shown in pic. Below. 

14 now, using your finger tips very gently roll the Swiss vertically in one big log. As shown in pic. Below.

15. now using a sharp knife, slit the log in two starting from one end and stop at,East 2 inch before your cut the entire log into 2 . As shown in pic. Below.

16. Know very carefully, put one strip of lot onto another and form a weaved dough, as shown in pic. Below. 

17. Once done, bring the 2 ends together and form a circle with help of your fingers try to seal the to ends together. As shown in pic. Below.

18. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees.

19. Very gently, place the bread onto a greased baking sheet.

20. Bake in pre heated oven at 180 degrees C for 20 + minutes or till you see the bread with nice golden brown colour. In between  brush the bread with milk to get that nice Shiney texture. 

Your festive chocolate bread is ready..:)

Oreo Pops

Oreo Pops

As Christmas arrives we start preparing for the festival weeks and months in advance. Shopping, cleaning, Gifts and parties ... Christmas brings lots of positive vibes in every home and family. 

Christmas was my favourite festival since childhood. Yes, of course you guessed it right ;because of Santa and the gift...:D:D

Today when I am playing role of a Mommy in my real life, I was thinking to prepare some home made foodies as Christmas give away. To prepare something that kids would love for start to end. Something colourful, sweet, and of course chocolaty. 

I saw these cute little thingy called Oreo pops as return gifts in one of the kid's birthday party I went few days back. Kids were so happy to receive these Oreo pops. And, I loved the idea too. Kids love Oreo , we all know that. So, why not to take a simple looking Oreo to a chocolaty, colourful  and yummilicious wonderful world...:) :)

PS: original recipe is adapted from howcast.com 

Ingredients : for 10 Oreo pops

- 10 Oreo biscuits ( preferably unbroken)

- approx. 50 grams White chocolate

- approx. 150 grams milk chocolate

- 10 lolly pop sticks

- sugar sprinklers of your choice

Process

1. Take single Oreo biscuit, with utmost care and with very gently hands separate them in 2 part. Once, some you will have 2 parts from one Oreo. One tight cream and one without cream. Repeat the process with all the Oreos.

2. Melt White Chocolate either on a double boiler or in microwave.

3. Take 1 lolly pop stick dip one end up to almost 1/2 inch in white chocolate and stick this gently onto the cream part of Oreo biscuit and immediately, stick back the 2nd part of Oreo biscuit with no cream to again make it Original one Oreo biscuit. Repeat with rest of the Oreos. 

4. White chocolate works as glue to stick the lolly pop stick as gradually white chocolate starts cooling and settling. 

5. In step 3, press both the sides very gently to bring the Oreo together as one, else it will break into pieces.

6. Once done, let them rest for at least 1 hour.

7. In the meanwhile, melt the milk chocolate on a double boiler or microwave.

8. Once the lolly pop stick is fixed to Oreos, one by one start dipping the Oreos with very very gently hands in melted milk chocolate. .

9. While sipping harm, ensure the entire Oreo is coated nicely with chocolate . And handle the Oreo with extra care, as if there is excess chocolate , it might becomes heavy for the stick to hold melted chocolate  and it may collapse. 

10. Once done, sprinkle some sugar sprinklers of your choice, and place each Oreo pop in a butter paper/ wax paper/ parchment paper. 

11. Let them rest till chocolate cools and settles down.

Your beautiful and delicious Oreo pops are ready. Try them, and your kids will fall in love with them.

Imp. Tips

1. There are multiple variation, using sugar sprinklers, coconut powder, praline, Choco chips or nothing at all.

2. While dipping each pop in melted chocolate for coating, ensure to do it quickly as with the heat of milk chocolate, the White chocolate working as glue  might melt and the entire pop looses itself.

3. While sticking the stick with the help of white chocolate, do not over do the white chocolate as it will gradually make the Oreo heavy and difficult to handle in later stages.

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Eggless Chocolate biscuit cake

Eggless Chocolate biscuit cake

Do you have kids at home??

Do they eat biscuit or cookies??

Do they eat half and leave the rest??

So, what to do with all those broken, leftover biscuits?? Throw them??? No no no, not now...:) 

Look at the pictures below, this cake is made from those biscuits...:) :)

Yes, it's true. An eggless, chocolate cake made from scratch ( broken biscuits).

My 20 months old champ eats half a biscuit and would leave the rest. I had accumulated a jar full of such broken biscuit. And the biscuits were assorted starting from Oreo, to butter cookies, Jim jam and many others. I obviously don't wanted to waste and discard them. Thought of transforming them into an yummy cake and the results were to die for .

Super moist, super soft yummilicious cake...:)

Ingredients

- broken biscuit, approx. 2 cups roughly filled

- 1 cup lukewarm milk

- 1 tbsp powdered sugar ( since I has biscuits that were sweet enough, I have used very less sugar you can add more depending upon the biscuits you are using )

-  1/2 tsp baking soda

- 1 tsp vanilla extract

- 1 tbsp coco powder ( since I had less chocolate biscuit I used coco, if you are using more chocolate biscuits. You can skip this step).

- 8" greased baking tray

Process

1. Take a grinder jar and put all the biscuits in the jar as shown in picture below.

2. Make a smooth powder of the biscuits, as shown in picture below. 

3. Take the biscuit powder in a bowl, and add powdered sugar and mix well.

4. Now add milk little by little to make smooth cake batter. 

5. Add vanilla and coco powder aNd mix well.

6. Now just before pouring the batter in cake tin, add baking soda and quickly give the batter a good mix.

7. Pour the batter in greased tin. At this stage you can sprinkle some nuts to garnish, I have used some almond flakes. 

8. Bake the cake in pre heated oven at 180 degrees C for approx 25 minutes, or till a tooth pic, comes clean.

Your yummy cake from scratch is ready....:) 

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Eggless Whole Wheat Orange Muffins

Eggless Whole Wheat Orange Muffins

It's winter season, and the best fruit you would get in winters are oranges. I love orange flavour too but to eat orange as fruit is not my cup of tea. :(

I had got oranges in my fridge, that no one was interests in eating. One fine day while I was clearing the fridge saw these oranges lying in one corner feeling really sad about the ignorance they were getting from the family... I definitely did not liked this. And thought to use them and transform them into something that everyone would love to grab. 

As far as my baking is concerned I pay much emphasise on whole wheat or Multigrain flour. As having a toddler in home, I would not prefer using too much AP f or Maida...

For these orange Muffins I also use Candied Amla ( indian gooseberry), which gave the muffins awesome tangy bite..:)

Ingredients

- 1 and 1/4 cup whole wheat flour ( I used ashirvad multigrain atta) 

- juice from 2 medium sized oranges

- zest from same 2 oranges ( if you feel the oranges you have are small, you can obviously increase r both juice and zest)

- 1/2 tsp baking soda

- 1/2 tsp baking powder

- 1/2 cup castor sugar

- 4 tbsp of cooking oil ( I used regular sunflower refined oil)

- 2 tbsp candied Amla chopped. 

 2 tbsp honey 

- Choco chip as desired to garnish 

Process

1. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees C. And, in a small bowl take honey and warm it in microwave for 10 seconds. Now, dip,the chopped Amla candies in honey for at least 10 minutes.

2. In a big bowl take oil and sugar and mix them well.

3. Now, add orange juice, orange zest and again mix everything well.

4. Now in a separate bowl sieve together flour, baking soda and baking powder at least twice.

5. Combine together flour mix with orange mixture in 2 batches and mix everything well.

6. After combing in wet and dry ingredients the muffin batter will be ready, now you can add honey and Amla And give the batter a final,mix. 

7. Please note;  do not over whip the batter. Also you will find this batter to be on little thicker side. It to worry, muffin batter is always thicker than that of a cake batter. 

8. Now pour the batter with help of an ice cream scooper or regular spoon, in paper lined muffin pan.

8. Pop them in oven and bake for approx. 25 mints. Or till the tooth pick comes clean.

Yummy, healthy, wholesome and awesome a muffins are ready...:) 

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