Oatmeal Nutella Smoothie (using home made Nutella)

Category: Breakfast/ Oats 
Preparation Time: 5 mins  
Cooking Time: 5 mins  
Servings: 1-2 servings

Oatmeal Nutella Smoothie

Oatmeal Nutella smoothie is a quick and easy on the go breakfast / after school snack for the kids. 

Store-brought Nutella is loaded with refined sugars and palm oil, so I never buy it. This is made with home made Nutella and you can find the recipe here: Home made Nutella.

Home made Nutella with Almonds

Ingredients:

• Oatmeal (Quick cooking or old-fashioned) - 1/2 cup
• Milk / Non-dairy milk -  1 and 1/2 cups (Use as needed)
• Home made Nutella - 1-2 Tbsp (Use as needed)

Optional Add-ins:

• Dates 
• Soaked Chia seeds
• Apple 

Home made Nutella (Hazelnut / Almond Chocolate Spread)

Category: Home made Spreads
Preparation Time: 10-15 mins
Servings: yields around 1 cup

Nutella made with Almonds

Nutella is the popular chocolate spread among the kids. But we dont prefer buying it because it is made with palm oil and loaded with sugar. So I prefer making it at home without any preservatives or refined oils.

Almond Chocolate Spread

For more chocolatey flavour, we can add few chocolate chips or little home made chocolate. 

Nutella made with Hazelnuts

Nutella is made with Hazelnuts and if we didn't have access to those nuts, we can use almonds. I have tried with both hazelnuts and almonds. 

Minion is happy with this Nutella :) 

We can also use peanuts and I have already posted Chocolate Peanut butter recipe here.

We can use this on toasts, breads, crackers, cookies, cakes, chapathis, apples, smoothies or on anything we like to:)

Home made Nutella on Home made Banana Bread :)

Ingredients:

• Hazelnuts or Almonds -1 cup
• Organic Unrefined Sugar - 1/4 cup (adjust as per sweetness)
• Unsweetened Cocoa powder - 2 Tbsp
• Virgin Coconut Oil - 1-2 Tbsp (Use as needed)
• Pure Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp

Sprinkle Chocolate Bark (Easy Holiday Treats)

Category: Easy Treats / Festive Recipes
Preparation Time: 5 mins 

 

Sprinkle Chocolate Bark

Chocolate bark with sprinkles is a very easy and quick holiday treat. Chocolate bark is actually a sheet of chocolate covered with nuts and dry fruits or even candies. 

Festive Treats!!!

If we are not having any cooking chocolate, we can just use our regular chocolate chips. There are lot of variations for the chocolate bark; We can use either dark chocolate or milk chocolate or even white chocolate to make these.

 

Also the toppings are purely of our choice. We can use chopped nuts, dry fruits, seeds, candied fruits, crushed candy canes, coconut, candies, etc. as toppings.

During this winter break, kids will enjoy making these quick treats. I try to avoid the artificial dyes so I used the sprinkles coloured with natural ingredients.

Ingredients:

• Chocolate chips - 1 cup (I used semi-sweet mini chocolate chips)
• Sprinkles - as needed

Banana Chocolate chip Pancakes (Eggless, Whole wheat & Vegan option included)

Category:  Breakfast
Preparation Time: 10 mins 
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Servings: 4 servings

Pancakes are always the favourite breakfast not only for the kids but for the entire family.  I have already posted few pancake recipes in my blog and all those were made from whole grain flour only, strictly no to the refined white flour. 

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes

You can check those here:

• Whole Wheat Eggless Pancakes
• Whole Wheat Pancake Mini Muffins
• Pancake Doughnuts with Peanut butter chips

Nowadays, whenever I have got over ripen bananas, either I prepare these banana muffins or banana bread or pancakes.

Banana chocolate chip pancakes - These are eggless pancakes and made with whole wheat flour. Since banana and milk are not compatible foods together, I have used coconut milk here instead of regular milk. We can use unsweetened coconut or almond milk; if we are not having any of these, we can just grind some coconut and extract milk and use it. We can also use plain water but the taste will differ.

            

Dairy-free & Vegan option: This can easily be adapted to a vegan recipe by replacing the chocolate chips with vegan/dairy free chocolate chips or even chopped nuts and we can use coconut oil for toasting instead of butter.

                       

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour/ Atta - 1 3/4 cup
• Baking powder - 2 tsp
• Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - a pinch

Eggless Whole Wheat Chocolate Waffles

Category:  Breakfast

Preparation Time: 5 mins  
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Servings: 3 to 4 servings

These chocolate waffles are made from whole wheat flour and are eggless. This will be a sure hit among the chocolate lovers:) 

These can also be sent in kids lunch box and also can be freezed. I tried this recipe from here.

Eggless Whole Wheat Chocolate Waffles

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients: 

• Whole Wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Cocoa Powder - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1/4 cup (I used Organic demerara sugar)
• Baking powder - 1 tbsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp

Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Cake (Eggless & Butterless)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 15 mins  
Cooking Time: 25-40 mins
Servings: yields 1 big square cake or 2 loaves

WW Banana Chocolate Cake

Ingredients: 

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour - 2 cups
  
• Cocoa Powder - 2/3 cup
• Baking soda - 1 1/2 tsp

Wet Ingredients:

• Banana, ripen - 4 nos (long variety)
• Olive Oil - 4 tbsp
• Brown Sugar - 1- 1 1/2 cups, packed (If we dont want to be sweet, we can use just 1 cup as I used here)
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Hot Water (Not boiling, just hot) - 1 1/2 cups
• Lime / Lemon Juice - 2  tsp

Method: 

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F for 10 mins
2. Grease the baking pan and keep it ready
3. In a sieve, add the wheat flour, Baking soda and Cocoa powder. Sieve the dry ingredients into a wide plate/bowl
   
4. In another large mixing bowl, mash the bananas well
5. Add the oil and whisk well 
   
6. Add the Brown sugar and beat well
7. Add Vanilla extract and mix well
8. Add warm water and mix to form a uniform mixture
   
9. Then add the lime juice into it and mix 
10. Add the dry flour mix into the wet mixture and blend well without any lumps
    
11. Pour the batter into the baking trays
    
12. Bake in preheated oven for about 30-40 mins or until its done (can be checked by using tooth pick method). Since I used small cake pans, mine got done in 25 mins
    
13. Once its done, remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 mins in the pan
    
14. Then transfer them to cooling rack and allow to cool
15. Slice and Serve hot!
    

Eggless Whole Wheat Marble Cup Cakes (Vanilla & Chocolate Flavour)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 15 mins  
Cooking Time: 17-25 mins
Servings: yields around 10 muffins 

Marble / Swirling / Zebra Cup cakes are nothing but  cup cakes with both vanilla and chocolate flavour. This is an eggless version and these cup cakes are really very soft and crumbly. Kids will enjoy it for sure and also its made of whole wheat flour:)

WW Marble Cup Cakes

 Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour - 1 1/4 cup
• Milk powder - 3 tbsp
• Baking Powder - 2 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Wet Ingredients:

• Cold Butter - 1/2 cup
• Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup, packed
• Milk* - 1 cup (Should be warm)
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Other Ingredients:

• Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp dissolved in 2 tbsp of hot water

*Here I used White Whole Wheat flour, if using Atta we might need additional 1-2 tbsp of milk

Method:

1. Pre heat oven to 350°F
2. Grease the muffin pans / line with muffin liners
   
3. In a sieve add the dry ingredients (Wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder and milk powder) and sieve them into a bowl and keep it ready
   
4. In a mixing bowl, add the chopped cold butter and powdered sugar and beat it well till the sugar gets dissolved and become creamy texture
   
   
   
   
5. To this add the remaining 1 cup of warm milk and beat well
   
6. To this add the vanilla extract and mix well
   
7. Now add the sifted flour into the wet ingredients and gently mix it up to form a batter
   
8. In a small bowl dissolve 2 tbsp of cocoa powder in equal amount of hot water
   
9. Divide the batter into two equal parts; one for vanilla flavour and the other for chocolate flavour
10. For vanilla layer, we will just keep the prepared batter as such
    
11. For chocolate layer, add the dissolved cocoa powder mix into the other half of the batter and mix well to combine
    
12. In the muffin cups, add 1 spoon of vanilla batter
    
13. Then add 1 spoon of chocolate batter
    
14. Again add 1 spoon of vanilla and followed by chocolate batter
    
    
    
    
15. We can bake as such to get the marbled effect
16. If we want, we can also make swirling pattern; using a tooth pick, just swirl the batter gently so that we can view a beautiful swirl pattern
    
    
    
    
17. Bake for around 20-30 minutes (depend on the size of the muffins), or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean 
    
    
    
    
18. Cool for about 10 minutes in the pan and then remove from pan to cooling rack

    

    So soft!!!

    
    

Chocolate Chip-Nuts Cookies - Crispier Version (Whole Wheat)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 20 mins  
Cooking Time: 10 -13 mins
Servings: Yields around 3 dozen cookies

Chocolate Chip-Nuts Cookies

Already I have posted a recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies here and this one is a more crispier version and also with more nuts included:)

Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour - 2 cups

  

  So Crispy!!!

• Egg - 1 no (at room temperature)
• Butter - 3/4 cup (Cold butter sticks)
• Light Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Granulated White Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Walnuts, finely chopped - 1/2 cup
• Almonds, finely chopped - 1/2 cup
• Semi sweet mini Chocolate chips - 1/2 cup (can increase as per likeness)
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F
2. In a bowl, add the wheat flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon powder; mix well and keep it aside
   
3. Finely chop the nuts and keep them ready
   
4. Mix in the chocolate chips with the chopped nuts
   
   
   
   
5. In a wide bowl take both the sugars and cold butter cubes; beat well(If using electric beater, we can beat in high speed) for 4-5 mins until it becomes creamy
   
   
   
   
6. Add in the egg and vanilla extract, beat well for another 1-2 mins until they get combined well
   
   
   
   
7. Now add the flour mix into the wet mixture and mix well until it gets mixed
   
8. Then gently fold in the chocolate chip-nut mixture, mix gently for uniform distribution
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Make small uniform balls (I used 1 tbsp & 1/2 tbsp spoons as scoops to get uniform size), flatten it slightly and place it in cookie tray
   
   
   
   
10. Ensure it is not crowded and leave at least 3/4-1 inch  space between the cookies since it may spread while baking
    
11. We can also place them without flattening if we want a bit thicker cookie. Both of them were very crispy:
    
12. Keep the tray in the pre heated oven and allow it to bake for 10-11 mins
13. After 10 mins, remove the tray and allow it to cool for 5 mins before taking out into cooling rack 

    

    Slightly flattened Cookie dough - After Baking

    
    

    

    Cookie dough without flattening - After Baking

14. While taking out, the cookies will be little soft and upon cooling it becomes crisp
    
15. Then store it in air tight container