Originally this recipe is from a food blogger friend of mine. Jan from “Taste Is Yours” recommended his cake recipe when I was looking for a new weekend baking project some time ago. Of course he said I would miss out on something if I wouldn’t try it. Thats typically man isn’t it ?!? Always so sure about themselves and their abilities.

Decadent Saffron Rice Cake and why experimentalists are underrated

Since it’s not in my nature to follow rules or recipes I never made the original recipe. Its just not in my nature. My hubby always complains about setting the kitchen on fire one day or something like that but until now all is good and well and our home is still standing. I’m a very intuitive person when it comes to baking and cooking and experience taught me a lot. That is why I instantly knew when I read through Jan’s recipe that the only ingredients staying unchanged will be the eggs, the butter, baking powder and the saffron threads everything else had to go or would be replaced .

Being an unrecognised kitchen goddess and experimentalist by heart can be a very hard destiny. Almost always no praises when it comes to epic dishes

Decadent Saffron Rice Cake: Special cakes need a special coronation.

Pavlova! The name alone could be of a charismatic Russian noble woman. Thats what I’m always thinking when I hear Pavlova. And a Pavlova on top it should be. Pavlova + saffron = a match made in heaven

Originally Pavlova was a Russian Prima Ballerina and I think the meringue should be like a light and airy ballerina skirt. the recipe was created in honour of Pavlova after or during one of her visits in 1920 to Australia or New Zealand. The Pavlova is an important traditional dessert both in Australia and New Zealand.

Decadent Saffron Rice Cake: Celebrating decadents with saffron and butter – Part one of Decadency

At the beginning of every recipe it’s important to prepare and measure all ingredients and bring everything to room temperature. Since I was at the beginning of developing a new recipe I started out with all the ingredients I wanted to use. This are the already measured and tested ingredients.

• 100g Butter. Sorry I can’t exchange butter. Its the essence of a good decadent cake.
• 100g Sugar because I can’t cream butter with dates and of course because we need Special.
• 2 large Eggs, the best option would be local and organic
• 50g ground almonds, that’s part of my flour substitution
• 180g basmati rice, yes you heard right no rice flour which you have to buy in a special grocery store. No I used basmati rice from a small local business and ground it in my food processor as fine as possible
• 1/4 teaspoon of safran threads
• 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 260ml almond milk
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla pudding powder or corn starch
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

How to Prepare Part One

• Preheat your oven to 180° Celsius and grease a 20cm round baking form with butter and flour the form with ground almond meal
• At the beginning I warmed the almond milk in a small bowl and added the vanilla essence and the saffron threads for soaking.
• In another medium size bowl mix all the dry ingredients together
• I creamed the butter and the sugar about 7 minutes in my KitchenAid until pale and very fluffy
• After that I added the room temperatured eggs one after another and cream for another couple of minutes
• add the dry and wet ingredients alternately to the butter eggs mixture. The batter will be very runny but that’s totally fine. the rice needs more liquid during the baking.
• Let the batter stand for about 10 minutes.
• After the 10 minutes stir the batter thoroughly through with a spoon.
• Pour the batter in the prepared baking form
• Bake at 180° Celsius for about 70 minutes or until a wooden tooth pick comes out clean
• Let the cake cool to room temperature and spread some strawberry marmalade on top

Lets crown it with a Pavlova – part 2 of Decadency

I’m sharing the method which works best for me. I know there are a lot of recipes out there but this works for me best.

Making a Pavlova can be very tricky and sometime when the air is too moist it will not get a crispy outer texture but will maybe stay a normal sticky meringue . But that’s ok it will taste delicious too.

• 2 large egg whites
• 90g white sugar
• 1 tablespoon corn starch
• 1 teaspoon whit vinegar (but I made this recipe with apple vinegar too)
• 200g strawberries, hulled and cut in 0,5cm thick slices
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 60g or more sugar to taste
• 300g plain coconut sugar or cream
• strawberries and peaches for decoration

How to Prepare Part 2

The Pavlova

• Take a baking parchment and put the 20cm baking form on top and retrace it with a pencil
• Turn the paper and put it on the baking sheet. The circle should be visible.
• Preheat the oven to 150°Celsius
• Beat the egg whites in a bowl of an electric mixer until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add the sugar and beat very well until the mixture is glossy.
• Sift the cornflour over the egg white mixture and add the vinegar.
• Fold everything carefully
• Put the meringue int the middle of the drawn circle
• Spread everything evenly in a circle but leave about 2 cm free on all sides
• Form a hollow in the middle
• Place the baking sheet into the oven and reduce to 120°Celsius and cook for about 1 hour
• After one hour turn the oven off and let the Pavlova cool in the oven.
• Very important under any circumstances don’t open the oven during baking and cooling

Balsamic roasted strawberries

• put the sliced strawberries, balsamic vinegar and sugar into a pan and cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Strawberries should not be to soft cooked
• Let everything cool

Crowning the Cake

• Top the saffron rice cake with warm strawberry jam
• Put the Pavlova on top
• Spread the coconut yoghurt or beaten cream in the hollow
• put about 2 tablespoons of roasted strawberries on the cream
• Decorate everything with fresh strawberries , flowers and peaches slices and drizzle some more roasted strawberries on top

This Decadent Saffron rice cake with a Pavlova crown is my contribution to the Austrian Food Blog Awards 2019 in the Category “Lebe, Liebe, Backen”. I hope you enjoyed my recipe I know it needs a little longer than your average cake recipe but believe me it’s worth all the work and time.

A lot of hugs and sugary kisses Nina

You may also be interested in our delicious whole grain carrot cake scones with honey and lemon glaze.

*Note: My recipe won an Austrian Food Blog Award 2019 in the category “Liebe, Lebe, Backen” – which is the baking category. It was the most popular category and had the most entries.

Decadent Saffron Rice Cake with Pavlova Crown

This is my award wining recipe for a delicious gluten free Saffron cake made with ground rice and topped with a crispy and fluffy Pavlova Crwon and balsamic roasted strawberries

Saffron Rice Cake

• 100 g butter (romm temperature)
• 100 g sugar
• 2 eggs (large and room temperature)
• 50 g ground almonds
• 180 g basmati rice (grounded in your blender until as fine as flour)
• 1/4 tsp saffron threads
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 260 ml almond milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp strawberry jam

Tthe Pavlova Crown

• 2 egg whites (from large eggs)
• 90 g water
• 1 tbsp corn starch
• 1 tbsp white vinegar

Roasted Balsamic Strawberries

• 200 g strawberries (hulled and cut into 1cm thick slices)
• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla sugar
• 60 g white sugar (or more to taste)
• 300 g coconut yoghurt (plain or vanilla flavoured)
• 1/2 cup strawberries

The Safron rice cake

1. Preheat the oven to 180°Celsius and grease a 20cm in diamiter round baking form with butter and flour the form with ground almonds.

   At the beginning I warmed the almond milk in a small bowl and added the vanilla essence and the saffron threads for soaking.

   In another medium size bowl mix all the dry ingredients together.

   Cream the butter and the sugar for about 7 minutes in your stand mixer until pale and very fluffy.

   Then add the room temperatured eggs one after another and cream for another couple of minutes.

   Add the dry and wet ingredients alternately to the butter mixture. The batter will be very runny but thats totally fine. The rice needs more liquid during the baking.

   Let the batter stand for about 10 minutes.

   After 10 minutes stir the batter thoroughy with a spoon.

   Pour the batter in the prepared baking form.

   Bake at 180°C for about 70 minutes or until a wooden tooth pick comes out clean.

   Let the cake cool to room temperature and spread some strawberry marmelade on top.

   
   
   

The Pavlova Crown

1. Take a baking parchment and put the 20cm baking form on top to retrace it with a pencil.

   Turn the paper and put it on the baking sheet. The circle should be visible.

   Preheat the oven to 150°Celsius.

   Beat the egg whites the bowl of your stand mixer until soft peaks form.

   Gradually add the sugar and beat very well until the mixture is glossy.

   Sift the corn flour over the egg whites mixture and add the vinegar.

   Fold everything carefully.

   Put the meringue in the middle of the drawn circle.

   Spread everything evenly in a circle but leave about 2cm free on all sides.

   Form a hollow in the middle.

   Place the baking sheet into the oven and reduce to 120°Celsius and bake for about 1 hour.

   After one hour turn the oven off and let the Pavlova cool in the oven.

   Very important under any circumstances do mot open the oven during baking and cooling.

   
   
   

Balsamic Roasted Strawberries

1. Put the sliced strawberries, balsamic vinegar and sugar into a pan and cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes.

   Strawberries should not be to soft.

   Let everything cool.

   
   
   

Crowning the cake

1. Top the saffron cake which you smeared wit hwarm strawberry jam, with the Pavlova

   spread the coconut yoghurt or beaten cream into the hollow.

   Decorate everything with fresh strawberries and eatable blowers and drizzle with some more roasted strawberries liqiud on top.

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The Fairy Kisses Cookies are a delightful and one-of-a-kind Christmas cookie recipe. With a sugar cookie base topped with a delightful blend of candy and meringue, these treats are a perfect addition to the festive holiday season. Get ready to indulge in these unique Christmas cookies that will surely be devoured in no time.

Every year, my kids start to celebrate their favorite season of the year earlier and earlier. This year, though, my boy already started with his favorite Christmas songs in August, and we have watched Christmas movies since September. I know the movie “Kevin alone at home” by heart now ;-).

Fairy Kisses are my favorite unique christmas cookie recipe

But what I love the most about that most beloved festive holiday season is the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies. All those wonderful spices and smells flowing through the house—that’s what Christmas is all about for me. I could forget myself in my kitchen, kneading up festive yeasty deliciousness, preparing all the different doughs for at least 20 different Christmas cookie recipes. Yes, I’m definitely a carb lover. And no, I don’t care. Not during my favourite season ;-).

Fairy Kisses Cookies – what to expect from my favorite Christmas cookies recipe

First of all, I didn’t invent that Christmas cookie recipe or the name. I found it in a baking magazine about 16 years ago—yes, I’m already that old ;-).

So what is that cookie all about:

That tiny, beautiful, gorgeous cookie has a simple sugar cookie recipe base. Then there is that super delicious “Toffifee” candy, which is sweet and delicious already on its own. And finally, all that goodness is topped with an airy Pavlova-like meringue.

That cookie gets baked for about 15 min; that’s when the oven works its magic ;-). The heat melts that candy, and the caramel and chocolate become that super ooey gooey mess, and that meringue becomes that crisp and airy top but is still a little chewy inside.

When I want to be super fancy, I’m dusting the cookies with some edible gold dust.

And?!? Hope you are drooling right now!

Fairy Kisses are on my Christmas cookies baking list every year and every year I have to bake at least about 2 batches of them. It’s one of my favourite holiday recipes and it sweetens up the waiting for my family and I until Christmas eve .

Sweet fairy kisses and warm cookie hugs

Nina

Update: The cookies may seem undercooked when they come right out of the oven. The sugar cookie base isn’t crisp but very soft, but that’s alright. When that candy melts, it seeps a little bit into the sugar cookie dough, making the cookie chewy and not crisp. The cookies have a chewy base and a crispy meringue cloud.

If you are looking for more delicious Christmas cookies, I’ve got you covered:

• “Eisenbahner” Railroad Cookies – a folksy Austrian Christmas cookie recipe with almond paste and orange jam
• Nutty triangles – crispy shortcrust base, fruity apricot jam, a sweet nutty filling, and a little bit of dark chocolate
• Boozy chocolate cake moon cookies
• Bailey’s hazelnut chocolate shortbread cookies
• Austrian Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescents)
• Antonia’s all-time favorite Christmas Cookies Collection
• Speculoos Gingerbread Cookies with brown butter maple glaze
• Rudolph Reindeer gingerbread cupcakes

Fairy Kiss Cookies – a unique Christmas cookie recipe

4 from 330 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: cookies, DessertCuisine: American, austrian

Servings

48

cookies

Prep time

45

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Calories

69

kcal

resting time

10

minutes

Fairy Kiss Cookies is a super delicious and unique

Christmas Cookie recipe. It can’t be missed on the Santa Cookie plate. It’s my family’s favorite Christmas Cookie recipe.

It has a crisp sugar cookie base with a Toffee Candy in the middle and a light and airy meringue on top. It’s a gooey gooey deliciousness with an airy and crips top. *Ingredients available in grams and US measurements

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Ingredients

• Sugar Cookie dough

• 300 g 300 All-purpose flour Us: 1 cup + 3/4 cup +2Tsp

• 1 tsp 1 baking powder

• 100 g 100 cold butter cut into small cubes/ Us: 7 tbsp or a little less than a stick of butter

• 1 1 egg

• 50 ml 50 heavy cream in US: 3 tbsp + 1 tsp

• 120 g 120 sugar Us: 1/2 cup 1,5 tbsp

• 48 pieces 48 Toffifee candy

• Meringue

• 4 4 egg whites large, about 160g

• 180 g 180 white sugar Us: 1/2 cup + 1/3 tbsp

• 2 tsp 2 white vinegar

• 1 1/3 tbsp 1 1/3 corn starch

Directions

• Sugar Cookie dough
• In a medium bowl, cut the cold butter cubes into the flour until the butter cubes are pea-sized crumbs.
• Add all the rest of the ingredients to the flour and assemble everything into a dough ball.
• Wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
• While the dough is resting, prepare the meringue.
• Roll out the dough until less than 0.5 cm thick and cut out small round disks a little larger in diameter than the Toffifee Candy.
• Put the disks on a baking sheet with about 5cm of space on all sides and put the Toffifee Candy with the flat side on top.

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• Meringue
• Preheat the oven to a 150°Celsius fan, which is about 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Beat the egg whites in a bowl of a standing mixer until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add the sugar and beat very well until the mixture is glossy and stiff.
• Sift the corn flour over the egg whites mixture and add the vinegar.
• Fold everything under carefully but thoroughly.
• Fill the mass into a piping bag with an extra large round or open star tip.
• Carefully pipe the meringue on top of the Toffifee Candy. Stay this way and let the meringue cover the whole candy. With the tip of a knife, carefully push down the meringue on the side so that it touches the dough.

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• Repeat with all the other cookies.
• Place the baking sheets into the oven. Not more than 2 and bake for 5 min at 150° Celsius (300° F)
• Turn the heat down to 130 degrees Celsius ( 265 degrees Fahrenheit) and bake the cookie sheets for about 15 minutes. Then, turn off the oven open the oven door just a bit and let the baking sheet sit in the oven for another 10 minutes.
• Carefully take out the baking sheets and let cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 69kcal
• Carbohydrates: 11g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 2g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Cholesterol: 9mg
• Sodium: 22mg
• Potassium: 22mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 6g
• Vitamin A: 72IU
• Calcium: 8mg
• Iron: 1mg

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What are strawberry curd cheese dumplings?

Austrian cheese dumplings with breadcrumb coating are a traditional Austrian sweet recipe popular during strawberry and stone fruit season. These dumplings are low in sugar but still sweet because of the sweetness of the ripe strawberries and the added teaspoon of Nutella. We Austrians enjoy this deliciousness for dessert or lunch. I love to enjoy those dumplings for lunch on a Friday or as a dessert on the weekends, served with a scoop of ice cream and strawberry compote. We Austrians have always had a sweet tooth and developed a category only for sweet main dishes.

The dough is soft and more like a batter and contains only 5 ingredients .The stuffing of the curd cheese dumplings varies and depends mostly on what’s in season. The dumplings get cooked in salted water and afterwards coated with bread crumbs which get browned and caramelized in sugar and butter.

The origin of curd cheese dumplings.

This dessert recipe originates from the Bohemian Empire, which was part of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and is today the Czech Republic. It’s a well-loved traditional dish popular in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. Every nation claims this dish as its own, of course, and therefore, the recipe varies in its ingredients, fillings, and preparation.

While these dumplings get cooked in salt water in most Eastern European countries, these dumplings get baked in Germany.

What is curd cheese?

Curd cheese is a fresh cheese made from skim milk. It has a starter added to the curdle; the milk is very lightly colored and is soft and spreadable. It has a slightly sour tang to the taste and is not aged at all.

Austrian quark cheese tends to contain less fat than cottage cheese. It is sometimes called medium-fat soft cheese.

Substitutions for curd cheese.

If curd cheese isn’t available where you live, here are some options you can use instead of curd cheese:

• Quark trained with a cheesecloth; otherwise, it’s too wet.
• Farmer’s cheese
• Ricotta
• Cream cheese
• dry-curd cottage cheese
• cottage cheese pressed through a sieve

The Ingredients:

• Butter: Unsalted butter is what we use
• Salt: a pinch of salt for seasoning
• Curd cheese
• eggs
• flour
• Strawberries
• Nutella
• bread crumbs
• sugar
• More Butter

What to serve with strawberry curd cheese dumplings.

Firstly, these dumplings coated in caramelized bread crumbs are delicious as they are. Just served warm with some extra bread crumbs and a dust of powdered sugar, the following sides are also excellent choices as well .

• Vanilla ice cream is always a great addition to any warm-served dessert.
• Apple sauce is a classic, and you can’t go wrong with it.
• Strawberry compote is a great side as well. I even have a great recipe on my blog.
• Homemade fruit sauces are a great fit as well for this Austrian dessert.

Variations of fillings:

I’m filling these curd cheese dumplings with whatever fruits are in season.

• Apricots: use small apricot. Get rid of the pit and put a sugar cube into the apricot instead.
• Plums: it’s the same for plums. Remove the pit and put a sugar cube into its middle instead. If you don’t have sugar cubes, fill it with 1/2 tsp sugar.
• Berries: different berries or a mix of other berries are great filling. I like to sprinkle them with vanilla sugar.
• Nougat filling tastes so good!
• Any chocolate tastes excellent, as well.
• A combination of white chocolate and raspberries makes for a heavenly, delicious filling.

What’s essential when making these strawberry curd cheese dumplings?

“Homemade Austrian curd cheese dumplings step by step”

• The dough is very soft and sticky. The best way to make the dough pliable is to chill it for 2 hours.
• While the dough is chilling, I’m dropping teaspoon-sized amounts of Nutella on a baking sheet and freeze them. This way, it’s easier to fill the dumplings.
• Dust your kitchen surface and rolling pin enough before rolling out the dough.
• Don’t forget to dust your hands. This prevents the dough from sticking too much to your hands.
• Cut the dough into squares, transfer a square into your hand put a nutella drop into the middle, and small strawberry.
• Afterward, I close the dough around the filling, pinch the openings together with my fingers, and then roll it into a ball.

Here are some more tips for this authentic Austrian curd cheese dumpling recipe.

• The thickness of the dough will prevent it from tearing when closing it around the filling.
• I cook the dumplings for about 10 minutes in salted water. The water should gently bubble.
• Dumplings are ready when rising to the surface.
• Immediately coat the dumplings with the caramelized bread crumbs after cooking.

Can these Austrian curd cheese dumplings be prepared in advance ?

Austrian sweet cheese dumplings can easily be prepared up to 2 days in advance. Just follow the recipe until the dumplings are stuffed and rolled into balls. Sprinkle them with some flour, put them on a tray, cover them with cling fling or aluminum foil, and keep them in the fridge for up to 2 days.

How to store leftover dumplings.

In case you have some left over dumplings put them into an airtight container and keep them in the fridge for up to 2 days.

Reheat them in a pan with the leftover caramelized bread crumbs over medium heat for about 5-7 minutes.

Finally, if you tried this easy strawberry recipe for “Erdbeer Topfenknödel”, aka Strawberry curd cheese dumplings, and found the recipe and post helpful, please give it a rating and leave me a kind comment. Nothing makes me more happy than hearing from you, preparing some Traditional Austrian food . And let’s not forget it’s one of my favorite Austrian recipes as well .

– Nina <3

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Easy Strawberry curd cheese dumplings – best Austrian dessert

4 from 85 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: DessertCuisine: austrian

Servings

16

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

10

minutes

Calories

306

kcal

This is a one of the best Austrian desserts ever! "Topfenknödel" – strawberry curd cheese dumplings fluffy, soft, fruity and have a creamy consistency . The dumplings are filled with a medium sized Strawberry and Nutella and are covered in caramelized buttery bread crumbs.

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Ingredients

• Dumplings dough

• 160 g 160 butter cut into small cubes

• 2 2 eggs

• 500 g 500 curd cheese or any substitution found in the blog post

• 1 tbsp 1 white sugar

• 1 pinch 1 salt

• tsp zest of 1 lemon

• 300 g 300 all purpose flour

• Filling

• 16 16 strawberries medium sized, cut of a little bit of the and the greens.

• 1 tbsp 1 vanilla sugar

• 100 g 100 Nutella or any other nut cream you prefer

• Buttery caramelized bread crumbs

• 120 g 120 butter

• 80 g 80 white sugar

• 80 g 80 bread crumbs made of white bread

Directions

• Dumplings dough
• Start with mixing together the butter eggs and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attached for 2-3 minutes.
• Add all other ingredients and mix until it forms a dough.
• Wrap the dough into plastic wrap and chill the dough for 2 hours.
• Filling
• On a baking paper drop teaspoon sized Nutella creme on a baking paper and freeze until you start with the filling.
• Use medium sized strawberries for the filling. If there are only large ones available cut into thump sized pieces . Mix the strawberries with the vanilla sugar and set aside.
• After the dough is cold and chilled sprinkle your working surface and your rolling pin with enough flour other wise the dough will be too sticky .
• Roll out the dough until it's 1cm thick (0,4 inch)
• Dust the dough surface and cut into 10cmx10cm quarters (3 1/2 inch x 3 1/2 inch)
• With the help of a spatula take one dough square into your dusted hands.
• Put a Nutella drop and a strawberry on top and close the dough around it. Everything should be covered by the dough.
• Pinch the seams together . Make sure the dough ball isn't open anywhere.
• Roll the dough into a ball . But be carefully.
• Put the dumpling on a flour dusted tray and repeat with the other dough squares.
• Cooking the dumplings
• Fill a medium sized heavy bottom pot with water and heat heat until it cooks.
• Add 1 teaspoon of salt and reduce heat until its a gentle bubbling.
• Put the dumplings into the bubbling water but make sure that there is still enough space between the dumplings.
• Let the dumplings cook for about 10 to 15 minutes or until the dumplings rise to the surface .
• When the dumplings are done, transfer them one at a time with a skimmer into the bread crumbs and coat every dumpling on all sides .
• Repeat with the rest of the curd cheese dumplings.
• Serve warm and with a dust of sugar. Enjoy!
• Buttery caramelized bread crumbs
• Heat a medium sized pan on medium high heat and let the butter melt.
• When the butter is melted reduce the heat to medium and add the sugar. Let everything caramelize for 1-2 minutes. But make sure it doesn't get burnt.
• At last add the bread crumbs. Mix everything together and let the bread crumbs get golden brown before switching off the heat.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 306kcal
• Carbohydrates: 30g
• Protein: 8g
• Fat: 17g
• Saturated Fat: 11g
• Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g
• Monounsaturated Fat: 4g
• Trans Fat: 1g
• Cholesterol: 59mg
• Sodium: 289mg
• Potassium: 112mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 12g
• Vitamin A: 481IU
• Vitamin C: 7mg
• Calcium: 47mg
• Iron: 2mg

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This is an easy and delicious recipe for a babka bread filled with fresh strawberries and coconut .The babka is made out of a brioche dough and I added saffron for a little decadents. You are welcome . The flavors are perfect for a warm summer Sunday afternoon but it’s also perfect for the holidays as a wonderful breakfast recipe or as a filled brioche bread served with butter as an afternoon treat.

If you’d like to serve it for breakfast please prepare it the evening before and refrigerate the unbaked babka bread in the fridge until morning. Let the prepared loaf pan stand for 1 hour at a warm place so that the dough can come to room temperature.

Saffron brioche babka – The saffron isn’t a must but makes the taste definitely more complex.

As you may already discovered I already have a delicious blueberry babka recipe up on our blog but I so much love babka that I though I want to add another delicious filled sweet bread recipe. And I made that new babka extraordinary decadent just for you. I added saffron to the brioche dough and some flavorful cardamom to the filling (fresh strawberries and coconut). Best decision of my life. Please if you don’t have any saffron at home you can of course leave it out. Make the babka its delicious without the saffron of course too.

Sweet yeasty bread recipes made especially for the holidays – origin of the babka

There exist a lot of babka recipes and brioche recipes out there but what is the difference between those 2 sweet bread doughs? Or are these the same? I will tell you the difference.

Babka bread is a traditionally jewish sweet bread filled and twisted or braided. There are no specific informations about the dough. Only that it’s an enriched dough so it could also be a brioche dough recipe. So why not use a delicious buttery brioche dough to make a more special and grant babka?

Traditionally babka is made from a doubled and twisted length of yeast dough and is typically baked in a high loaf pan. Instead of a fruit filling, the dough contains cinnamon and/or chocolate. The babka is usually toppedwith streusel. Jewish immigrants brought this dish, also known as Krantz Cake to New York where it became very popular at the beginning of 2010.

Brioche dough recipes are always lightly sweetened doughs. They almost contain as much butter and eggs as a buttery cake but have a very soft and airy texture instead of a cake crumb.

The important things about making this babka recipe.

• I always proof the yeast! My yeast needs to be dissolved in WARM (38°C) milk and 1 tbsp of sugar and loosely covered with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap. The yeast is prooven when the liquid becomes foamy and bubbly.
• I measure exactly! For every recipe I make measuring my ingredients is the most important rule ever.
• The dough needs to be kneaded for about 10 minutes! I know this sounds like much but it needs to be flexible.

Almost Done! Promised.

• I let the dough rise in a warm place . Cover the bowl loosely with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel.
• My babka bread needs enough time to rise! Thats very important! The brioche dough needs to be double in size before you can work with it again.
• After spreading the filling I roll the dough into a log and chill it for about 20 minutes in the fridge. It doesn’t get that messy when the filling is set.
• Don’t cut the log all the way through.
• Before I bake the babka it needs a second rising which will last almost as long as the first one.

I want to enjoy my time with my family to the fullest . Good food definitely goes hand in hand with these special moments on a Sunday morning. My deliciously filled babka is therefore the perfect breakfast recipe. We all gather in the morning around our table and enjoy the smell of the freshly baked sweet yeasty babka. The saffron and added cardamom gives it that special complex flavor which makes it super addictive. Nobody can withstand it in my family.

Warm saffron hugs Nina

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I think you might be interested in these recipes too : “Blueberry vanilla Babka” or “Cinnamon Brioche Rolls with pumpkin pecan filling” .

Saffron brioche babka filled with fresh strawberries and coconut and cardamom

0 from 0 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: Bread, DessertCuisine: American, austrian, French

Servings

8

Prep time

2

hours 

Cooking time

50

minutes

Calories

536

kcal

This is an easy and delicious recipe for a babka bread filled with fresh strawberries and coconut .The babka is made out of a brioche dough and I added saffron for a little decadents and cardamom for that suptle complex taste.

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Ingredients

• brioche dough

• 60 g 60 white sugar

• 10 g 10 freash yeast or 4g instant yeast

• 120 ml 120 milk

• 60 g 60 butter

• 350 g 350 flour cake flour or all purpose

• 2 2 egg yolks Large at room temperature

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 salt

• 1 1 egg for egg wash

• Strawberries and coconut filling

• 500 g 500 strawberries fresh

• 50 g 50 brown sugar

• 2 tbsp 2 balsamic vinegar

• 2 tbsp 2 flour

• 125 g 125 desicated coconut pan roasted until golden brown and smeels wonderfully

• 2 tsp 2 cardamom

• 100 g 100 brown sugar

• 100 ml 100 coconut milk

• 50 g 50 butter room temperature and soft

• 1/4 tsp 1/4 saffron threads

Directions

• Babka – brioche dough
• First mix warm milk (45-50 degree C) and saffron threads together and let it stand for 1 hour.Then dissolve 1 tbsp of the sugar into the warm milk. Milk should have about 37C° or 97F°.
• Add the fresh or dry yeast, stir, cover loosely with plastic wrap and let it stand for about 10 minutes or until foam and bubbles are building
• In a medium mixing bowls sift the flour and the salt and incorporate the cold butter and the rest of the sugar with a pastry cutter until everything is very fine in size.
• Add the egg yolks and the yeast mixture and mix with the hook attached on medium speed until not sticky any longer or knead everything with your hands. That's about 10-15 minutes.
• When the dough is not sticky any longer put it into an oiled bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. Let it rest at a warm place until the dough is doubled in size.That will be about 60-90 minutes depending on how warm the resting place is.
• When the dough is doubled in size put it onto your floured working surface and deflate the dough trough slapping it onto the surface 3-6 times.
• Prepare a deep loaf pan 30x12cm with butter and flour it out.
• Shape the dough loosely into a rectangular and roll it out. The shorter side of the dough should be facing you and should be as long as your loaf panThe dough should be about 1cm thick and 30×40 cm.
• Spread the coconut filling onto the dough but leave 2 cm free on the shorter side facing away from you.
• After that add the fresh strawberries on top.
• Start rolling up the dough starting from the short side facing you to the other short side.
• Put the log for fifteen minutes into th fridge so that the filling can firm up and it doesnt become such a mess.
• Remove from the fridge and use a knife to slice the log into two pieces but leave about 3 cm whole.
• Braid both strands by going over and under. Tuck the ends in and place it into the loaf pan.
• Let the dough raise one more time for about 45 minutes and brush the top with a lttle egg wash
• ***Note if you let the Babka rest in the fridge overnight it needs to rest another hour in the morning at a warm place to come to room temperature before baking.
• Strawberry and Coconut filling
• Cut the strawberries into small pieces and mix together with the 50g of sugar, flour and balsamin vinegar.
• When you dry roast the dessicated coconut until golden brown turn off the heat take the pan from the cook top. 
• Add the coconut milk, cardamom, butter and brown sugar and mix everything together with an spatula. let it rest until cool. The filling should be spreadable otherwise add a little bit more coconut milk.
• Preheat the oven to 180°Celsius or 370°Fahrenheit and bake for about 45 minutesEnjoy.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 536kcal
• Carbohydrates: 72g
• Protein: 8g
• Fat: 25g
• Saturated Fat: 18g
• Cholesterol: 100mg
• Sodium: 284mg
• Potassium: 302mg
• Fiber: 5g
• Sugar: 31g
• Vitamin A: 470IU
• Vitamin C: 37mg
• Calcium: 67mg
• Iron: 3mg

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No churn Lavender Blackberry ice cream funfetti cookie sandwich – say that 5 times fast

Phew! What a long name for a treat, right?!? What you’ll find here is not only one recipe. It’s 3 recipes made into one. Its a glorious recipe for your favourite new summer dessert. The best no churn Ice cream recipe, the best funfetti sugar cookies recipe and a flavourful lavender raspberry jam recipe. Which is the best too .

No churn Lavender Blackberry ice cream – best ice cream recipe ever

Blackberries are my favourite summer fruits. I love their tart and juicy flavour. I can create so many different recipes with these summer berries. Therefore it’s a good thing that I’m the happy owner of a huge blackberry bush. For example my favourite blackberry recipe is delicious lavender blackberry jam which is part of my ice cream.

Above all a no churn ice cream recipes is beside nice cream the easiest way to make creamy ice cream without an ice cream maker. Thats why I decided to come up with my own ice cream flavour which will be a summer dessert stable this year for sure.

No churn ice cream recipes – main ingredients

the two main ingredients of no churn ice cream recipes are:

• Firstly chilled cream. Of course you can use a plant based alternative instead too.
• Secondly a can of condensed milk. I made my own coconut condensed milk. I can hardly get any condensed milk at all in Austria however coconut milk is something I always have at home.
• Furthermore the flavour. Instead of my blackberry jam you can use any other jam or blended fruit sauce you have at home. You can add other things too like nuts, shredded coconut or anything else.

Crispy funfetti sugar cookies – because sprinkles are always a good idea right?

The recipe yields about 20 medium sized cookies which therefore make 10 ice cream cookie sandwiches. The sugar cookie recipe contains less sugar but enough sprinkles to get the cookie party started.

For a vegan version just use a plant based butter and 2 flax seed eggs and they turn out as crispy and delicious as the normal version.

The things I love about that recipe:

• Firstly the creaminess is amazing. It can totally compete with a classic ice cream recipes.
• No churn ice cream literally means easy cheesy.
• The coconut flavour of the homemade coconut condensed milk is fantastic. I will never use again a store bought one for sure.
• Lavender and blackberries harmonise perfectly.
• The sugar cookies are super crisp even after filling them and freezing .
• Despite being an ice cream sandwich its a very fancy dessert and you can serve it at any bbq party.

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No churn Lavender- Blackberry ice cream sprinkle cookie sandwiches

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Recipe by Nina Course: Dessert, SnackCuisine: American

Servings

10

sandwiches

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

1

hour 

15

minutes

Calories

1

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This is a delicious easy recipe for a no churn ice cream made with Blackberries, dried lavender and homemade cocount condensed milk. This delicious ice cream is sandwiched between delicious sprinke sugar cookies.

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Ingredients

• homemade coconut condensed milk

• 2 can 2 coconut milk each 400g

• 1 1/4 cups 1 1/4 sugar you can use white brown or even coconut sugar.

• Lavender blackberry jam

• 500 g 500 blackberries fresh or thawed

• 250 g 250 sugar white or jam sugar 2:1

• 1 tbsp 1 lemon juice freshly squeezed or 2g pectin

• 1 tsp 1 dried lavender or 1-3 drops lavender oil

• No churn lavender blackberry and coconut ice cream

• 400 g 400 condenses coconut milk you can use 1 can bought one too, or regular condensed milk

• 500 ml 500 cream or plant based cream

• 200 ml 200 lavender blackberry jam the one we made in the uper steps or any jam you like

• Sprinkles Sugar Cookies

• 250 g 250 butter

• 190 g 190 sugar white or brown

• 2 2 eggs large

• 240 g 240 all purpose flour

• 4 g 4 baking powder

• 1/4 tsp 1/4 salt

• 70 g 70 sprinkles reserve 2 tbsp for sprinkle the cookies before baking

Directions

• Homemade coconut condensed milk
• Put all ingredients in a medium sized pod and mix until sugar is dissolved.
• Heat on medium high until hot and it starts to bubble turn down to low and let it only simmer and slighty bubble for about 1,5 hours.
• The liquid should be reduced to half and became thick.
• Pour into a jar with lid and let it cool.
• Lavender Blackberry Jam
• Put sugar, dried lavender and blackberries in a medium sized pot mix together and bring to a bowl under occasional stirring.
• Add the lemon juice and the dried lavender and let the jam boil on medium heat for about 10 minutes until thickened.
• Blend the jam and and spread 1/2 tsp of jam on a cold plate and see if the jam is thick enough.
• Should the jam be to runny let it cook for another 5-7 minutes.
• When the jam is thick enough fill in glasses, screw the lids on top and let cool completely.
• No churn lavender blackberry ice cream
• Beat the chilled cream until stiff peaks form. But dont over beat it.
• Carefully mix half the coconut condensed milk under the beated cream.
• Mix the other half of the condensed milk with the cold blackberry jam and cautiously fold it under the rest of the better . Make sure that its not completley one homogenous mass.
• Fill the ice cream into a deep loaf pan, put some plastic wrap on top and freeze for at least 6 hours .
• Funfetti sugar cookies
• Mix the flour, salt and baking powder and put it aside.
• Beat the butter and the sugar for about 6-8 minutes until ligh pale.
• Add the eggs one after the other and mix each for a couple of minutes.
• Add the flour mixture and incorporate it for about 20 seconds.
• With a spatula mix the sprinkles under the dough. only 3 or 4 strokes.
• Cover the bowl and let it rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
• After the 30 minutes take the dough out of the fridge.
• Preheat your oven to 170°C or about 350°F .
• With a tablespoon form little balls (about 20 Cookies) and put them on a prepared baking sheet (baking paper). Each cookie is about 1,5 tbsp.Flatten a little.
• Sprinkle some of the left sprinkles on top and bake for 12-15 minutes
• Assembling the Ice cream Sanswiches
• Let the ice cream thaw for about 10 minutes before filling the cookies.
• Fill one cookie with about 1/4 cup of ice cream put the second cookie on top and press together until the ice cream is spreaded. Wrap in plastic foil and freeze again or eat at once
• Repeat with all cookies.
• Enjoy <3

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 1kcal

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This is an easy, healthy dessert recipe for a healthy, low-carb cheesecake with blueberries. It is gluten-free, protein-rich, and baked in an iron pan.

I really like Skyr yoghurt. I don’t know if you know this special kind of yoghurt . It is very creamy and rich in tasting. Its similar to a low fat yoghurt but is high in proteins and has a creamier consistency similarly to cream cheese. Its perfect for a pursuit on a healthy lifestyle and above all it tastes delicious.

No, I don’t get paid for saying these praises . I just really like that food and since its similar in consistency to cream cheese its a perfect healthy substitution . But if you don’t have Skyr you can always use low fat greek yoghurt.

How did I develop this great healthy cheesecake recipe?

Since I’m trying to lose some weight but have always had a sweet tooth, I was experimenting with Skyr and eggs. Initially, I only wanted to create a mug cake recipe, which I could eat for breakfast or a sweet, healthy treat. Therefore, it should be easy and fast and whipped up on a whim. Long story short, I always had too much batter for one mug and, as a result, poured the batter into an iron pan because it was the only thing at hand :-).

Since I wanted to give this protein-rich recipe a very airy and fluffy texture, I separated the eggs and beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks formed.

Healthy low carb cheesecake and where to start?

Prepare the iron pan with baking sheet and preheat the oven to 310 F° or 160 C°.

First we separate the eggs. As already said, we beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form and put aside.

In a medium bowl beat the egg yolks, the Skyr yoghurt (or low-fat greek yoghurt, or if you want it to be lactose free a vegan one), coconut sugar, orange peels and vanilla extract until smooth – about 2-3 minutes.

When everything is smooth as on the picture above, add the baking powder and the vanilla pudding powder. The vanilla pudding makes everything more creamy while binding unnecessarily liquid from the blueberries and the yoghurt.

Fold in the beaten egg whites and finally the blueberries. Gently fold the blueberries in. Above all don’t over mix the blueberries. Just fold them in 1-2 times. There should be a nice marbled effect in the dough.

Finally pour the batter into the iron pan and bake everything for about 45 minutes. The surface of the cheesecake should only be slightly wobbly. If you thing the mass is not stocked enough bake it another 5 minutes.

Take the iron pan out of the oven and let everything cool.

Variations:

You can make this healthy low carb – high protein cheesecake with any fruit you like. I already made it with blood oranges, raspberries and apples and it turned out great every single time.

You can add 2 tablespoons of poppyseeds to the batter for an extra flavour. The poppyseeds go very well with the blood oranges.

I hope you enjoyed my journey from a single mug cake to a healthy and easy cheesecake in an iron pan

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Healthy Cheesecake recipe for 2

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Recipe by Nina Course: Breakfast, Gluten Free Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Sweet TreatsCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

40

minutes

Calories

300

kcal

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Ingredients

• 2 2 eggs (separated)

• pinch salt

• 3 tbsp 3 coconut sugar (or honey or maple syrup)

• 300 g 300 Skyr yogurt (or low-fat Greek yogurt or lactose-free yogurt)

• 150 g 150 blueberries (fresh or thawed)

• 1 tsp 1 vanilla flavour

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 baking powder

• 1 tbsp 1 vanilla pudding powder

• 1 tsp 1 orange peels

Directions

• Prepare an iron pan with a baking sheet
• Preheat oven to 310F° or 160C^
• In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form; set aside.
• In a stand mixer bowl, mix egg yolks, yogurt of your choice, coconut sugar, vanilla flavor, and orange peels until smooth, about 2-3 minutes.
• Add the baking powder and vanilla pudding powder, and mix until corporate about 30 seconds.
• Carefully fold the stiff egg whites into the egg yolk yogurt mass
• Mix the blueberries carefully into the dough in two short strokes.
• Pour everything into the prepared pan and bake for about 45 minutes or until the surface of the cake is slightly wobbly.
• Enjoy

Notes

• Instead of blueberries, you can use peeled blood orange slices, which gives this healthy treat a great tangy flavor.

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There are so many different ways how you can top your sweet breakfast or dessert. There is chocolate or caramel sauce, fruits of course, clotted cream, powdered sugar and the most beloved blueberry sauce, stew, compote or whatever you like to call the violet blue goodness .

But how many of you know how to cook a good homemade strawberry compote/stew/sauce? And most important cook it the healthy way?

This healthy recipe is the ideal summer fruit sauce for almost everything and its so easy to do. In less than 10 minutes your strawberry compote is ready.

Nothing is easier than cooking your own strawberry compote

Ok! Lets get started. First I stem the strawberries and cut them into thin slices. I put the strawberry slices, coconut sugar and water in a medium size pan and bring everything to a boil on medium high heat. I boil my compote for about 5 minutes not longer. Otherwise the strawberry slices will be a muss. During those five minutes of boiling I mix the cornstarch and the tablespoon of water. I stir the cornstarch water mix really well so that the cornstarch is dissolved.

After the short boiling time I pour the cornstarch-water mix into the pan and stir constantly until the sauce has thickened. The sauce is thickening when it boils once again.

When the liquid has thickened the compote is ready!

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This recipe is the perfect topping for my Healthy plant based Pudding Oatmeal !

Homemade Strawberry compote flavoured with balsamic and vanilla

This is a delicious Homemade Strawberry compote with a hint of balsamic vinegar and vanilla. The balsamic enhances the taste of the strawberries and gives this recipe its unique taste. It’s perfect as a topping for waffles, pancakes, oatmeals and much more.

• 100 g strawberries (without the greens and cut into thin slices)
• 50 ml water
• 1 tbsp coconut sugar (or sweetener of choice)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp balsamic vinegar (good quality and aged)
• 1 tbsp water
• 1 tsp cornstarch

1. Put the strawberry slices, sugar, water, vanilla extract and balsamic vinegar in a medium size pan and bring everything to a boil.

   Stir from time to time and boil for about 5 minutes

   Mix the 1 one tbsp water and 1 tsp cornstarch together and pour it to the compote

   Stir constantly and bring everything once more to a boil until compote has thickened

   Let it cool completely 

   You can keep the compote up to 5 days in an airtight container in your fridge

   
   
   

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I’m always game for trying new things. Especially when it comes to baking and cooking. Normally you would say that’s good since I’m a food blogger. Can’t be one without making things my way

Story to my Gluten Free Almond Polenta Mini Cakes recipe

Most times my hubby is very happy with me and my cooking and baking skills but there is one recipe I’m not allowed to experiment with. It’s my mother in laws gluten free almond polenta cake recipe. Every time I make this cake for him he observes me like a hawk. Yeah, it’s not allowed to mess with his mothers holy recipe.

Therefore it is a good thing that I mess with her recipe quite a lot . My man is not always around and so there are more versions of this cake as one would ever know. Everything is more interesting when it’s not allowed .

The glaze!

First I would normally start with the gluten free almond polenta cakes but for this recipe I will start with the glaze or pin pointing it, the rhubarb syrup. I love rhubarb! I have already used these stalks for about 10 dishes and the season haven’t fully started yet.

For the rhubarb drizzle syrup I put the pink stalks, white sugar and the water into a small pot and let everything simmer and reduce for about 10 minutes. It may be that you have to add some more water. I don’t want everything to get burned. It’s also very important that you use white sugar. Normally I use for all my recipes coconut sugar but for the sake of beauty use white sugar, please. Otherwise your syrup will be more brown than pink.

After cooking everything thoroughly, filter everything through a mesh. We need the syrup mostly for the drizzle but please reserve 2 tablespoons for the glaze.

I use only cooled syrup for the glaze otherwise this will be a very runny business. The glaze itself is easy cheesy. Start out with one tablespoon of syrup and gradually add SIFTED icing sugar until and another spoon of syrup as needed. The glaze should be thick like a medium runny cake batter

The cake!

The Mini Cakes are very easy made and only need about 10 minutes of preparing.

You need to cream the sugar and the butter about 10 minutes until its a very light and fluffy pale cream. the sugar should be dissolved at this stage. Gradually add the eggs one add the time and give them a good mix. PLEASE make sure that all ingredients have room temperature .

After Adding the eggs add all the other ingredients and mix until incorporated. Don’t over beat the batter. Fill the batter 2/3 full into the buttered and floured muffin tins and bake for about 30 minutes or a toothpick comes out clean. I love to back with lower temperature! It gives your cakes the time to rise evenly. The turmeric will intensify the color of your cakes which looks very awesome with the light pink glaze.

When the cakes are ready let them cool for about 10 minutes and transfer them to a cooling rack and drizzle them with the syrup. After the cooling glaze these lovely things and sprinkle some dried strawberry crumbs on top.

I hope you enjoyed this post and I would be immensely happy if you gave these cakes a try.

Love Nina

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Rhubarb Glazed Polenta Almond Mini Cakes – Gluten Free

These are the perfect Sunday afternoon sweet treats for you and your family. They are easy to make and the rhubarb glaze fits perfectly to the yellow compact mini cakes.

Cake batter

• 150 g butter (room temperature )
• 150 g coconut sugar
• 4 large eggs (beaten)
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 1 Lemon (finely grated zest and juice)
• 200 g ground almonds
• 200 g instant polenta (or corn flour)
• pinch salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp tumeric (ground)

Rhubarb syrup

• 100 g rhubarb (pink , cut into pieces)
• 50 g white sugar
• 50 ml water
• 1 cup icing sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 160 C° or 320F°

   Prepare a muffin tin with butter and flour the forms

   in a medium bowl cream on medium high speed the butter and the coconut sugar until its a light pale cream, about 5-8 minute 

   add one egg after the other and mix for another 7 minutes

   Add zest and juice of one lemon, salt and the almond extract mix until corporate

   Add the ground almonds, polenta and baking powder  and mix until corporate. 

   Fill the dough into the prepared muffin forms. Fill the forms about 2/3.

   Put the the tin into the oven and bake for about 30 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.

   When the mini cakes are ready let them cool for about 10 minutes and afterwards transfer them onto a cooling rack.

   Drizzle the top of your mini cakes with some rhubarb syrup when they are still hot. Top is the smaller side

   level the bottom of your mini cakes with a cake knife if necessary. 

   
   
   

Rhubarb glaze

1. Put all ingredients without the powdered sugar into a pan and let everything cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes or until the rhubarb is thoroughly cooked

   Everything should be pink

   Strain everything through 

   Save to tablespoons for the glaze

   Drizzle the top of the hot cakes with the syrup

   Mix one tablespoon of rhubarb syrup and half a cup of sifted powdered sugar together. Mix well. Gradually add Powdered sugar until the glaze is as thick as a cake batter.

   Pour the glaze over your cooled mini cakes

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Who wasn’t already on at least one diet? Ok, I see. Almost everyone, me included has been on a diet so far. You know in my 38 years I tried many different diets and some were really boring and sometimes extraordinary awful . So about 2 years ago I started to change my habits about food. I was fed up with being on a constant diet and I hated to always forgo dishes I really loved. I’m not on a diet any longer but instead on a journey on finding my own healthy lifestyle for me and my family and this healthy banana bread fits perfectly into it .

So this delicious healthy banana bread is one of my go to recipes when we need something sweet but don’t want to feel guilty with every bite we take.

I’m always searching for a good recipe which really tastes great and not bland. On my weekends you will most definitely find me in my kitchen trying to develop new recipes and yes sometimes my kitchen resembles a battlefield .

This healthy Banana Bread is ready for baking in only 10 minutes and its a one bowl thing. Yes, that’s my kind of recipe . Its the perfect sunday afternoon treat.

So let’s get started. First we need those reeealy ripe bananas, yes the almost dead ones, yes they are black too. But not all bananas just 3. We need the last one for decorating. Mash the 3 bananas with 2 tablespoons of hot water. This way its much easier. After that we put the mashed bananas and all the other ingredients, except the optional ones, into a bowl and give them a good mix. About 2-3 minutes. Instead of mixing them in your Kitchen Aid you could blend everything in a blender. If you think its a little bit to try just add some milk or water.

After everything is combined, there comes the glorious moment where we can add all the optional things to the batter like walnuts, chopped 85%dark chocolate, goji berries or chia seeds or whatever else you like. But keep in mind that it should still be healthy so please no white chocolate drops or m&ms .

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and and put some extra coconut sugar and cinnamon on top. Please don’t go overboard with the sugar just because its a natural sweetener. 1 tablespoon coconut sugar and one teaspoon cinnamon will do the job just fine <3

Put the pan into the preheated oven at 350F° or 170C° and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. During the baking we can prepare the honey cream cheese glaze. Mix together 1/3 cup cream cheese, 2 tablespoon honey and a pinch of salt and set aside. When the loaf is ready let it cool at room temperature for about 50 minutes. After that transfer the banana bread onto a plate and drizzle it with the glaze.

Have I already told you that I love this recipe? Yes?!? Ok but did you know that this recipe is not only full with good fibres, no the added greek yoghurt enhances the bread with natural proteins too. That means if you are into sports with weights like maybe crossfit this would be good for you too.

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Love Nina

No Guilt Healthy Banana Bread

This is the perfect treat for every occasion. It only takes 10 minutes to put this super delicious healthy banana bread made with oats, coconut sugar and greek yoghurt into the oven. Guilt free and the best you can make it a vegan version too.

One Bowl Batter

• 4 very ripe bananas (leave one for decorating)
• 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup greek Yoghurt
• 1/4 cup coconut sugar (or sweetener of choice)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp coconut Sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon

*Optional

• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/4 cup chopped dark chocolate (optional)

Honey Cream Cheese Glaze

• 2 tbsp honey
• 1/3 Cup cream cheese (softened)
• 1 pinch salt

1. Preheat oven to 350 F° or 170 C° and lightly crease a 9×5 inch loaf pan and put a baking sheet inside.

   Mash the very ripe bananas with a fork and 2 tbsps of hot water

   Add all ingredients into a blender, safe 1 Banana which we leaf for the decoration, and blend until smooth and well combined

   Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and mix the optional ingredients into the batter

   Decorate with the remaining banana as desired

   Combine the coconut sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle everything on top 

   Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean

   Let loaf cool completely before transferring it onto a plate

   For The Glaze:

   In a small bowl mix the softened cream cheese, honey and a pinch of salt until smooth

   Pour the glaze over the just barely warm banana bread

   Enjoy

   
   
   

for a vegan version use 2 flaxseed eggs (mix 2 tbsps ground flaxseed meal with 3 tbsp water and lets sit for 15 minutes in the fridge) and instead of the greek yoghurt use a vegan option like vegan coconut yoghurt. Enjoy!

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