Oat buns

My go-to recipe for lunch at work.

Its small enough to fit in a mini-Tupperware container, bursting with flavor and just delicious!

Recipe

• 250 grams oats
• 200 grams non-dairy yoghurt 
• 3 eggs
• Variety of nuts (such as walnuts, almonds)
• Dash vanilla essence
• Dash salt
• Dash baking powder
• Sugar and oats for topping

Set the oven at 350°C In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together and insert the mixture in cupcake forms. Sprinkle sugar and oat flakes on top, as a topping; you can leave this part out, if you’d prefer to keep them sugar-free.

Place the cupcakes into the oven for 30 minutes.

Bon appetite!

Carrot cake

Happy sunny Sunday

A few days ago, my mom mentioned she liked carrot cake, ahh yes, she planted a seed!!!

How was I, to resist the temptation of not recreating this?
Impossible!!
After some Pinterest’ing, I got it!
Fyi: there is barely a slice left, needless to say… it was a success!!!

Time for … Sharing is Caring

Ingredients

Mixture

• 250 grams thin sliced carrots
• 150 grams brown sugar
• 150 grams flour
• 125 ml oil
• 75 grams walnuts
• 2 eggs
• 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 Teaspoons cinnamon
• 5 Teaspoon nutmeg
• 5 teaspoon ginger
• 5 teaspoon cloves

Frosting

• 300 grams powder sugar
• 100 grams cream cheese
• 75 grams butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Pre-heat oven at 350°C

Remove the skin of the carrots and use a slicing machine to cut carrots in thin slices. Mix in a bowl eggs, oil and vanilla extract. Add remaining ingredients, except carrots and walnuts, in the bowl. Mix all well together, add sliced carrots to the mixture.

Cut the walnuts in small pieces and heat these for max 5 minutes, in the oven. Dust the walnuts in flour, and set aside.

Insert baking paper in 2 oven pans; I used 2 oven pans to easily layer the cake. Insert the mixture in each pan and sprinkle walnuts in both. Insert both in the oven for about 25 minutes.

Proceed with prepping the cream cheese frosting. Cut butter in pieces, use a hand mixer to mix it well. Add cream cheese, vanilla extract and a little bit powder sugar. Add remaining powder sugar bit by bit. Test the frosting while mixing, to adapt this to your taste buds.

I love using sugar, so naturally I used a lot.

Remove the cake from 1 of the cake pans and spread frosting on top. Place the other cake on top and spread remaining frosting on top. Decorate with whole walnuts and sugar rocks, whichever way your heart desires.

Store the cake (properly sealed) in the fridge for a day, before eating, the following day the cake is much more frumptious.

Bon appetite!

Walnut cake

Happy Easter

What better way to celebrate this long weekend, than whipping up some delicious desserts? Homemade goodies are definitely the best!
Scrolling through Pinterest (yes, I’m a Pinterest addict!), I caught sight of a nut-filled cake. It’ll be a walnut cake!

Try it, your only worry will be, how to stop yourself from eating. Oopss…. my bad

Ingredients

Cake

• 250 grams flour
• 250 grams butter (unsalted Anchor butter)
• 250 grams sugar
• 4 eggs
• Teaspoon baking powder
• Teaspoon vanilla extract
• Dash of salt
• 5 cup crushed walnuts

Coffee frosting

• 400 grams powdered sugar
• 50 grams butter
• 2 Teaspoons milk
• 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 Teaspoons water
• 2 Teaspoons coffee

Sift flour in a bowl and add baking powder and salt. In a different bowl whip, up sugar and butter to a creamy mixture. Add the eggs one-by-one to the sugar/butter mixture and add vanilla extract. Once done, add the flour mixture to the creamy mixture, and continue to mix. Store in the fridge for a few hours.

Pre-heat the oven at 350°C

Break walnuts in pea-sized bits and heat these in the oven for max 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, place the chopped walnuts in a small bowl with flour. Note: heating up nuts and placing them in flour, prevents the nuts from drowning to the bottom. Mix the nuts in the batter, insert this in a buttered oven bowl and place in the oven for about 1 hour. Use a toothpick to check if the cake is done; this should come out clean, if the cake is done.

Let the cake cool off for about an hour or so. Once the cake is cooled off, proceed with the frosting.
Use a hand mixer to mix butter and add half of the required powder sugar. Add milk, vanilla extract and remaining powder sugar; continue mixing, to get a thick and creamy mixture.

In a small bowl mix up water and instant coffee. Add this to the creamy mixture, and mix.

Cut the cake horizontally and smear the creamy frosting on the bottom section. Place the top section on the cake and top it off with the remaining thick creamy frosting.

Decorate with whole walnuts and brown sugar stones, as desired.

Bon appetite!