at 20:17

Fruit and Walnut Cups: Dessert made Easy and Healthy

This is a very simple dessert and it would never fail you. Many times, it rescued me from my last minutes dessert disasters.  I usually make this dessert when I invite many people over for lunch and have gone overboard with main courses or too tired to make any puddings. Basically when I am too deep into showing off!!!!  This light dessert is full of goodness of walnuts, freshness of seasonal fruits and healthy oat biscuits and decadence of whipped cream. So after too much eating, it sort of gives a break to the over eating and fills you up with freshness of fruit and nuts.

I have also tried this one for breakfast and it was an instant hit with kiddos and adults alike. You get to feed oat, walnuts and fresh fruits minus any sugar- without any fuss to any age group. It takes about 30 minutes to make for 10 people. What more do you want?

This is my all time favorite. I hope you like it too! Enjoy making this wonderful dessert by me!

 

Ingredients (to make for 10 to serve in small dessert glasses)

30-walnuts (3 for each person but you can add more) broken you can use a blender to make dust as well. I made dust of the walnuts

15-oats biscuit (1 and ½ for each person, but you can add more) made into crumbles (I used Mcvities digestives full fat version)

10-strewberry, thinly slices

1-orange, skin off and made in to dices

7/8-any other berry

2-sharron fruit, thinly sliced

Sufficient sweet mango, small diced

1/4-cup orange juice (or any other fruit juice)

Little vanilla extract

20/25-tablespoon fresh whipping cream (homemade or store bought. I used homemade. Ideally 2 table spoon for each glass/person)

 

 Method:

1.    Mix the broken/dust walnuts with oats biscuit crumble. Combine well

2.   Add little orange juice with the walnut and biscuit mix to make it little moist but not soggy. It should remain loose and crumbly. Keep aside

3.   Mix all the mix fruits together

4.   Add vanilla with whipping cream or add vanilla in fresh cream and whip until soft peak rises. Do not over do it and make it hard

5.   Now the layering for the dessert

6.   Take a dessert glass or anything tall ( bowl would do too but for layering something glass like is nicer and easy)

7.   First layer : make with walnut and oat biscuit mix

8.   Second layer:  Top the first layer with one tablespoon of whipped cream and spread the cream around the glass

9.   Thirst layer : Top the second layer with fruits

10.                Fourth layer: top the third layer with again walnut and biscuit mix

11. Fifth layer : Top the fourth with one tablespoon of whipped cream and spread the cream around the glass

12.                Sixth layer: top the fifth layer (of cream) with fruits. Add the fruits nicely as this would be your last layer

13.                Chill for 1 hour before serving

14.                Serve as dessert or breakfast or even for picnic

Note: Layering is done to make it look beautiful. If you are eating at home on a Friday night while watching a movie, you might want to just put all ingredients together and combine and just enjoy the dessert without the hassle of layering

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at 20:01

Cinnamon Twirl with Cinnamon Sugar

Who does not like the smell of cinnamon? I for one is game for all thing that smells of cinnamon. Cinnamon is used for both sweet and savory food. All kind of dishes use cinnamon. Indian, Turkish, Egyptian, and American to Persian- name it and there is a special place for cinnamon everywhere. However, cinnamon with sugar and baking is a winning combination.

This is a bread based sweet snack made with cinnamon. However, it can also be made with sweetener and made suitable for people with sugar intolerance as well as people with heart problem. This recipe is very versatile: as long as the bread base is right, it can be custom made to suit any one.  

I made my one for a picnic to be eaten as finger food. You can make it for high tea, breakfast , evening snacks or to be served as finger food before dinner.

 

Happy Baking!

Makes: around 25-30 twirls

Preparation time: 10mins plus four hour of rising time
Baking time: 35mins approx

 Ingredients:

250gm Flour
2-tablespoon yeast
½-teaspoon salt
2-tablespoon sugar or sweetener for flour mix
3-tablespoon sugar or sweetener for sprinkling over cinnamon twirl mix
4/5 –tablespoon sugar or sweetener for cinnamon sugar
2-tablespoon low fat vegetable spread or butter
4-teaspoon cinnamon powder
1-teaspoon cinnamon powder for cinnamon sugar

 Method :

1.    Put the flour in a deep bottom bowl.

2.    Sprinkle yeast, salt, 2-tablespoon sugar and mix  properly

3.    Make a well of the flour

4.    Warm some water and add in the well

5.    Combine and make a flour dough, It should be soft like wool but not sticky

6.    Cover the bowl with cling film and keep it in a warm place for 2 hours. It will help the flour to rise properly. If you want to keep for longer, you can do that too

7.    After 2 hours, take the bowl out, remove the cling film and take the flour out of the bowl. The flour would have risen to double now

8.    Sprinkle some loose flour on a plain surface and place the flour

9.    Divide the flour in two halve

10. Take one-half of the flour. Using a roller pin make a ½ centimeter high round ( like roti or round bread)

11. Spread the vegetable spread or butter on the round flour mix.

12. Sprinkle sugar and then cinnamon

13. Now roll the round flour mix

14. Take a baking tray and cover with baking paper or parchment paper  

15. Place the flour roll on the baking tray

16. Repeat the process  on other half of the flour mix to make second roll and then place on the baking tray

17. Keep in warm place for two hours for them to rise in size

18. Preheat the oven in 180c for 10mins

19. Bake the rolls for 35mins or until the rolls are light brown and the house smells of cinnamon

20. Let it cook and then take off the baking tray and slice as you like

21. Serve with cinnamon sugar and cream

Method for Cinnamon Sugar:

1.    Blend sugar and cinnamon in a electric mixture and make a sugar dust but not like icing sugar  

2.  Sprinkle some over the cinnamon twirls