Oatmeal & Apple muffins with cinnamon & coffee

Call them breakfast muffins or breakfast platter....it has all the goodness of fiber, vitamins, minerals and proteins. A single muffin will fill you with your bowl of oats, daily dose of fruits and of course- your morning coffee ! So why the hassle of making different things when you can get all of them in just one muffin.

For more recipes with oats click the following links: 
Oats & Rosemary crackers
Flaxseeds & oats crackers
Mocha cookies
Veggie pops
Poha ladoo
Nutella and white chocolate chip cookies

Let's get started :)
Ingredients:

• Oats: 1 cup
• Whole wheat flour: 1 cup
• Sugar:3/4th cup
• Coffee: 1 tbsp 
• Baking powder: 1tsp
• Baking soda: 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon powder: 1/4 tsp
• Oil: 100 ml
• Milk: 1 cup(make sure the batter is not too runny or too thick)
• Few drops of vanilla extract
• Apples: 2 medium sized
• Plums: 4-5
  
  
  
  
  

Preparation time: 10-15 minutes
Baking time : 20 minutes
Yields: 8 muffins

Directions:

• Preheat the oven at 180 degree C for 10 minutes.
• In a mixing bowl sift together whole wheat flour, oats, coffee powder, baking powder,baking soda, powdered sugar, cinnamon powder 
• Add chopped apples into the dry ingredients.
• Add oil, milk and vanilla extract to the sifted flour and fold gently. (Do not over mix)
• Pour this batter into your greased muffin tray or muffin molds.
• Top it with some chopped plums.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degree C.
• Let them cool for 10-15 minutes and invert onto a wired rack.

Ready to serve :)

Looking for some more cakes and cup cakes recipes. Click the below links.
Earl grey & mint leaves eggless cake
Eggless chocolate cake
Caramel filled cupcake
Earl grey & orange tea cupcakes

Oreo & Nutella Cakepops

Making cake pops is such a fun.....crumbling, kneading, rolling,dipping and setting I just enjoyed every bit of the process....more so because I used all my favourite ingredients to make these adorable looking bite sized cakes dipped in silky smooth chocolate. If you have a sweet tooth you will enjoy these cakesicles as much as I did.

Ingredients:

• 150 gms Oreo sandwich cookies (minus 2 cookies, because I ate those :p )
• 130 gms pack Britania chocolate cake ( if you are making your own cake follow my eggless chocolate cake recipe
• 100 gms Nutella (for more recipes from Nutella click on these links Nutella Fantasy No bake cookies, Gary-the snail)
• Few drops of vanilla extract
• 50 gms melted white/dark chocolate (approx)
• Candy Sticks
• Sugar Sprinkles
  

Directions

• Break the cookies into two pieces ( And trust me, It is not at all a crime if you accidentally lick the cream from one or two cookies)
• Add the cookies into a food processor and pulse until there are no large chunks of cookies left.
• Pour the crumbs into a big mixing bowl.
• Next crumble your cake using your hands.
• Now add crumbled cake, nutella and vanilla extract and mix it all together using your hands until fully incorporated.
• Add a spoon of milk if required, basically you should be able to roll the dough into a ball easily.
• Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm.
• Divide the dough into 10 equal parts and roll into smooth crack free balls.
• Cover a baking tray with a parchment paper/ baking sheet and place the cake balls on it.
• Wrap
•  the tray with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
• Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.( it should be enough so you can submerge the cake balls easily into the melted chocolate)
• Dip one end of the candy stick into the melted chocolate and insert carefully into the cake balls.
• Put the cake balls in refrigerator for 15- 20 minutes to set.
• Dip cake balls carefully into the chocolate until covered.
• Swirl and gently tap the balls so the excess chocolate drip off. 
• Decorate the pops with sprinkles while the chocolate is still wet. It will harden quickly.
• Put the pops back into refrigerator to set.
• You can further decorate your cake pops with ribbons and some other fancy stuff or just enjoy them like this only. :)
  

Earl Grey and Mint leaves Eggless Cake

A unique blend of earl grey tea and mint leaves to satisfy your taste buds.This aromatic cake can be a perfect companion for your evening tea

Earl Grey tea is a tea blend with a distinctive citrus flavour and aroma derived from the addition of oil extracted from the rind of the bergamot orange, a fragrant citrus fruit.

Traditionally, the term "Earl Grey" has applied only to black teas that contain oil of bergamot as a flavouring.(Source :Wikipedia)

Mentha (also known as mint, from Greek míntha, is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family)Mints are aromatic, almost exclusively perennial, rarely annual, herbs. The leaves have a warm, fresh, aromatic, sweet flavour with a cool aftertaste, and are used in teas, beverages, jellies, syrups, candies, and ice creams.

Eggless Earl Grey and Mint Cake

Ingredients:

• 1/2 bunch fresh mint leaves
• 4 tea bags earl grey tea
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 100 gms butter ( at room temperature)
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup butter milk

Direction:

• Boil mint leaves in water and reduce it to half.
• Add 3 tea bags in this water and let it brew for 5-7 mins. Keep aside.
• In a bowl cream together butter and sugar.
• In a separate bowl sift flour, baking soda and baking powder .
• Fold this sifted flour into creamed butter and sugar gently.
• Add brewed tea and mint concentrate,orange juice concentrate , vanilla extract , buttermilk and mix well ( Do not overbeat)
• Empty one tea bag of earl grey and some crushed mint leaves into the batter.
• Pour this batter in a greased tin.
• Bake for 25-30 min at 180 degree c in a preheated oven. Let it cool for 15 in the dish and then invert onto a rack and cool completely before serving.