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Quick Banana Bread Mug Cake – Gluten Free, Vegan 2 minute microwave mug cake #AtoZChallenge

This Quick Banana Bread Mug Cake is perfect for a dessert and you can even have it for breakfast. This vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free dessert is packed with health.

What happens when you are having desserts every day? You want to find out ways to add healthy stuff in your dessert to have some mercy on yourself! I am in a mug cake mode lately because they are so quick and easy. I thought let’s make something healthy, quick which tastes awesome. So why not make a banana bread mug cake – which is gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy free and completely vegan. That’s good news for the ears right? Continue reading Quick Banana Bread Mug Cake – Gluten Free, Vegan 2 minute microwave mug cake #AtoZChallenge

Cookies and Cream Parfait – No Bake Dessert Recipe

This cookies and cream parfait is a no bake treat that is as easy as it is delicious, decadent and gorgeous. Made with Oreo cookies and layers of cream and chocolate this cookies and cream parfait is a winner from the word go.

I am actually in the no-bake dessert mode. I was debating over a pound cake, pavlova or a parfait and I obviously chose the parfait over the other two because it’s decadent and extremely easy. The cookies and cream parfait are one of my favorite parfaits because of the play of flavors and colors. Continue reading Cookies and Cream Parfait – No Bake Dessert Recipe

Grape Pudding Recipe – No Bake Dessert Recipe #AtoZChallenge

Fruits make your desserts alive. This grape pudding recipe is fruity, easy, vibrant and completely vegan – no jelly or gelatin or china grass.

I told you at the beginning of the A to Z Challenge that I am going to include loads of fruits in my dessert recipes because my son is one of the primary consumers of the desserts that I make. When I picked up some sweet black grapes from the supermarket he refused to eat them. The color might have put him off. But black grape is very good for you – so I thought why not do a black grape pudding recipe? And you can’t even imagine how easy this grape pudding recipe is. Continue reading Grape Pudding Recipe – No Bake Dessert Recipe #AtoZChallenge

Frozen Banana Ice-Cream with Honey and Butterscotch – No churn Ice Cream

The Frozen Banana Ice-cream is the easiest ice-cream you can every make. It doesn’t require any special equipment. Honey and butterscotch just adds life to the fruity ice-cream.

Have you ever tried making ice-cream without an ice-cream maker? It’s a whole lot of mess. It doesn’t set right, or you are going on churning it forever. I hate so much work in the kitchen! This Frozen Banana Ice-cream is easy, quick and without all that fuss. And it doesn’t taste like baby food. You need just three ingredients – frozen bananas, honey and butterscotch – that’s it! This is a kid friendly dessert recipe – dairy free, sugar free. And you have the goodness of banana too.

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Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

Craving chocolate? Yet you want to eat healthy? Your kid doesn’t want a fruit but says yay for chocolate? Get both of them together and make these easy Banana Chocolate Bites with just two ingredients!

Do you enjoy fruits with a twist? I do. Why not jazz up the plain old banana and bring out creativity? Right now I am swooning over banana because it is such a versatile fruit. You can use it up in desserts in so many ways. You want to go vegan in baking use up mashed bananas, you want a dairy free ice cream use bananas! Exciting, isn’t it? Well, I am going to have such a dairy free ice cream recipe too this April. So keep watching this space. For now, we are talking Banana Chocolate Bites. I am all for easy dessert recipes. Continue reading Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

Savory Semolina Muffins

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These savory semolina muffins are packed with the goodness of vegetables and oatmeal. These eggless muffins are perfect for breakfast or lunch box!

I am not quite a big fan of eggless baking, but I have been exploring it lately. I have figured out some substitutes for egg in baking. You can actually substitute egg with yogurt or mashed ripe banana if you want to bake without eggs. For this recipe I have used yogurt – thick yogurt instead of eggs. This is the first time I made savory semolina muffins so it was one of those experimental baking! Continue reading Savory Semolina Muffins

Whole Wheat & Oatmeal Eggless Digestive Biscuits

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These whole wheat oatmeal cookies are healthy, crispy and baked to golden perfection. They are completely egg less and have no refined flour. Learn how to make whole wheat oatmeal digestive biscuits.

I have been getting a lot of requests for eggless baking. I generally prefer baking with egg – because it gives a rich taste. But there are many ways you can substitute egg with other vegan ingredients. I’ll probably make an infographic with the quantities some time later and share. These cookies however, are super healthy and super easy to bake. They don’t have any refined flour so you will have all the goodness of whole wheat and oats. They are ready under 45 minutes from start to finish including the resting time for the dough. If you want to learn how to make whole wheat oatmeal cookies, or what we generally call in India digestive biscuits this is probably the easiest recipe you can get. These are very similar to the Graham Crackers that you get in the US.

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GLUTEN FREE YOGURT OATMEAL PANCAKES

The gluten free yogurt oatmeal pancakes are my go to recipe on a busy day. These gluten free, sugar free and butter free yogurt and oatmeal pancakes are so hearty, healthy yet yummy. Easy blender pancakes ready under 15 mins.

You already know I am going crazy with oats and trying out varieties currently. I made this yogurt and oatmeal pancakes for breakfast today which turned out pretty nice. I love pancakes for breakfast – they are hearty and keeps you full for a long time.

Its gluten free, sugar free, has no butter – so it’s super duper healthy.

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ULTRA-HEALTHY OATS AND BANANA COOKIES

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I am going bonkers over Oats these days. Made these Ultra Healthy Oats and Banana cookies the other day and they turned out super yum.

They are gluten free, butter free, sugar free – super duper healthy, I say!

All the sweetness comes from bananas topped with goodness of walnuts and raisins. And this is really what I call clean eating – no chocolate chip in my cookie and yet they are yumtastic!

I used to hate oats at one time – yeah really hate oats – I felt it tastes like vomit. That was when I was sticking to only making porridge! But when I started experimenting with oats I got to know how good and tasty it can be. And how many wonderful things you can make out to oats!

Here’s how I made these Ultra-Healthy Oats and Banana cookies!

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ULTRA-HEALTHY OATS AND BANANA COOKIES

Recipe Type: Breakfast

Cuisine: International

Author: Tina Basu

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 25 mins

Total time: 35 mins

Serves: 9 cookies

Gluten free, butter free, sugar free – the ultra healthy oats cookies for you

Ingredients

Banana – 2 medium sized ripe bananas
Rolled Oats – 1 cup
Milk – 1/8 cup
Walnut – few chopped
Raisin – ¼ cup chopped
Cooking spray /little oil for greasing

Instructions

Pre-heat Oven to 350F/ 220C
Mash the bananas in a bowl
Add oats, milk and chopped dried fruits and mix with a spoon
Line the baking tray with a greased baking paper
Spoon out the dough in equal parts on the baking sheet
Flatten the dough with the back of the spoon or fingers – these cookies are not going to rise up.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or till cookies are done!

Notes

You can add any kind of dried fruits – nuts, pecans even dates

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OATS BANANA BLENDER PANCAKES

These Oats Banana Blender Pancakes are super easy and super yum. It takes just about 5 minutes to prepare and ensures you are having a healthy and yummy breakfast.

These are not your regular weekend pancakes which have flour sugar and egg. These are gluten free and have no sugar. All the sweetness is from a ripe banana. Blend everything and you can have a great breakfast option in less than 15 minutes.

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