Orange & Chocolate Cupcakes

ORANGE & CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Ingredients:

2 cups of all purpose flour

¾ cup of sugar

Pinch of salt

2 flat tsp of baking powder

Half cup of orange juice

Half cup of double cream

100g soft butter

1 egg

Handful of broken chocolate or chocolate buttons

1 tbsp of candied orange peel

*To decorate: 50ml of orange juice and 3 tsp of caster sugar

1.      Mix together all the dry ingredients in 1 bowl and all the liquids in another bowl.

2.      Then pour wet ingredients into the dry ones and mix together.

3.      Add chocolate, orange peel and mix again.

4.      Transfer into cup cakes paper cases. Make sure to fill only ¾ of the paper case as pastry will expand.

5.       Bake for 25 minutes in oven 180 degree.

6.      While baking mix together orange juice and caster sugar.

7.      Ready cupcakes take out of the oven and pour 1-2 tsp of the mixture on each of the cupcake.

8.      Cool down before eating. Enjoy!!

MILLET PANCAKES

Millet pancakes

Ingredients:

3 cups of cooked millet

1.5 glass of milk

2 apples

½ cup of rice flour

5 tbsp of potato starch

½ tsp of baking soda

Oil for frying

Optional: sugar and cinnamon for serving

1.      Mix together in blender milk and peeled apples.

2.      Add cold boiled millet.

3.      Transfer the mixture to a bowl and add flour, potato starch and baking soda. Mix together.

4.      Leave it to rest for 5 minutes. 

5.      Meanwhile heat up the pan.

6.      Place spoon full of mixture into the hot oil and fry on both sides until golden colour.

7.      Serve with sugar or/and cinnamon.

8.      Enjoy!

Recipe from olgasmile.com

Banana pancakes

BANANA PANCAKES

Ingredients:

1 banana

1 egg

Pinch of baking powder

1.      Mash banana with a fork.

*It’s nice to leave small lumps of banana.

2.      Bite the egg.

3.      Mix it together and add a pinch of baking powder.

4.      Heat the oil on the frying pan, and when it’s hot pour the mix forming 3-4 small pancakes.

5.      Fry for around 40 seconds, and the turn it to the other side, for further 40 seconds.

 

That’s the tastiest pancakes ever!!

Recipe from mummycooks.ie

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE LOLLIPOPS

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE LOLLIPOPS 

 

Ingredients:

125g soft butter

½ cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp of baking powder

30g (1/4 of cup) cacao powder

100g Philadelphia soft cheese

2-3 tbsp of caster sugar

100g of dark chocolate

2 tsp of oil

ALSO plastic or paper sticks and shredded coconut/ ground almonds/ rice krispies for decorations

STEP 1 – Bake a cake

1.      MIX together butter and sugar using an electric mixer. While mixing add each egg at a time.

2.      Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa together. Add it gently spoon by spoon to butter, sugar and eggs mix.

3.      When all the ingredients blend together transfer it to a round tin approx. 20cm wide and bake in preheated oven for 25min in 180 degrees.

4.      When cake is baked take it out of the oven and cool it down.

STEP 2 – Making the lollipops

1.      When cake is cool break it to pieces and transfer to a blender and blend.

2.      After blending transfer to a bowl and mix together with Philadelphia cheese and caster sugar. You could mix it all together in the blender if you want.

3.      Knead the dough; if it’d dry you can add some more Philadelphia cheese.

4.      Form small bowls, around 3cm wide. Keep then on baking paper and under the baking foil in fridge for at least 4h.

5.      Melt chocolate with an oil in water bath.

6.      Dip the end of each stick in warm chocolate and then stick each stick to each chocolate bowl.

7.      When all done keep it in fridge for another 30minutes.

8.      After 30min dip each bowl in still warm chocolate and while still warm decorate with your choice of decorative. You can use healthy options like me, which is shredded coconut, ground almonds and rice krispies.

9.      Leave it for 10min for chocolate to cool down.

10.  Enjoy with your child!! 

Ps. Perfect option for a healthy snack for your child’s birthday party!!!

Recipe from http://smakoterapia.blogspot.ie/