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Showing posts with label Walnuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walnuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walnuts. Show all posts

Date & Walnut Rolls#SundayFunday

Dates are sweet, dried fruit. Soft buttery rolls stuffed with dates and nuts make a wonderful sweet. This recipe for date roll cookies are quick and easy to make and they have good flavor and texture.
These are actually eggless cookies except for the egg wash which can be avoided if you don't want to use eggs.

Ingredients
200 Grams All Purpose Flour
75 Grams Clarified Butter
60 Grams Powdered Sugar
½ Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
3 -4 Tablespoons Chilled Water or as required
For The Filling
200 Grams Seedless Dates _ minced
50 Grams Walnuts - finely chopped

Method 
For The Filling 
Mix the dates and walnuts together and make a nice roll keep aside.
For The Dough 
Rub clarified butter into flour till it resembles bread crumbs. Add the powdered sugar and essence mix it well into the flour. Now add chilled water just enough bring it into a dough. Do not knead the dough. The dough will be soft and crumbly. Cling wrap it and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 
Then take the dough and lightly knead it and roll out into ¼ inch thick chapatti.  
Put one strip of walnut and date in and roll (only once or else the covering will get to thick and it will not cook). 
Apply water to seal the edge.
Cut the roll and press the edges lightly to seal it. Like wise make the other roll also. 
Cut into 2 inch squares. 
Place on a well greased baking tray leaving sufficient space between each.
Bake in a pre heated oven bake at 180°C, for 12 to 15 minutes. 
The bottom of the roll should be light golden. Cool completely before storing in airtight containers.
Labels: Cookies, Festival Sweets, Dates, Walnuts, Eggless, Sunday Funday, Christmas Sweet, East Indian, Baked, Vegan, Healthy
Easy Rabdi with Evaporated milk from Cook with Renu
Date & Walnut Rolls from Sneha’s Recipe
Gobi Manchurian from Palatable Pastime

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Basil Pesto With Almonds & Walnuts#SundayFunday

Pesto is one of my absolute ultra-flavorful sauces. A great pesto tastes fresh, nutty, garlicky and super delicious. Today, I’m sharing my favorite a pesto recipe with almonds and walnuts. Pesto is the perfect use for your summer garden basil surplus, these leaves are from my kitchen garden.

Ingredients
1 Tablespoon Parmesan Cheese
Olive oil as required
3 Cloves Garlic -  minced
Handful of Leaves Basil
10 Toasted Almonds
5 Pieces  Toasted Walnuts
Salt & Black pepper powder to taste
Method
Grind all to a paste in a blender. Remove this into a glass jar. Add olive oil to cover if you want to retain it color in the refrigerator.

Labels: Pesto Sauce, Basil, Walnuts, Almond, Italian, International Cuisine, Sunday Funday, Gluten free 
For our event called Sunday Funday, wherein we share recipes our families will love to enjoy on a Sunday. Our theme is Pesto Recipe. 

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Date & Walnut Bundt#BundtBakers

I don't remember my father baking for us. Only when my mummy would be ill, my dad would go into kitchen and cook for us something that was the easiest, omelette and fried bananas, then he would cut plenty of fruits and keep them for us to enjoy for lunch on that day only. For the rest of the days and meals when mummy was in bed my aunt would come and cook for us. As such my father never cooked in the kitchen. 
This is one of my dad's favorite cake. My dad must have something to with his evening tea. This is delicious enough on it's own and requires no frosting.

Ingredients
225 Grams Seedless Dates - chopped
½ Teaspoon Baking Soda
100 Ml Warm Water
85 Grams Butter
115 Grams Caster Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
115 Grams All Purpose Flour
2 Eggs - separated
¾ Teaspoon Baking powder
60 Grams Walnuts - chopped

Method
Soak the dates overnight in warm water mixed with baking  soda.
Separate the eggs - yolks and whites. Whisk the whites till stiff and keep aside.
Cream butter and sugar well till light and fluffy. Add the yolk one at a time and beat it well then add the other and beat that well. Add in the essence and mix well. Now fold in the flour alternating with the dates and walnuts. When all the flour and dates and walnuts are incorporated then gently fold in the whites. 
Pour this in a greased and floured bundt pan and bake in a preheated oven 150°C for about 30 - 35 minutes. 
Let it cool for 10 minutes.
 
Then un mold and
let it cool completely on a wire rack.
Slice & Enjoy !!
Labels: Bundt, Bundt Bakers, Dates, Walnuts  

  

#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or themeYou can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page. ;">

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Mini Bundt Chocolate Chip Cookie#BundtBakers

These are so soft in the center and crisp outside.  Very delicious to have as a snack or perfect for a HI Tea Party. Thank you Felice from All That's Left Are The Crumbs, for choosing such a challenging theme, loved it.
Makes 6 mini bundts
Ingredients

50 Grams Butter , softened
60 Grams Brown sugar
30 Grams Caster Sugar
1 Large Egg
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla essence
90 Grams All Purpose Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Baking soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Chocolate Chips
1/4 Cup Chopped Walnuts
For the Chocolate Frosting - A Small Batch Chocolate Frosting 

40 Grams Dark Chocolate - chopped
15 Grams Butter - unsalted
2 Tablespoons Heaped Icing Sugar - sieved
3 Teaspoons Milk


Method
Pre heat oven to 175 degrees C.
Mix together the butter and sugars in a mixing bowl. 

Add the egg and the vanilla and continue mixing until well combined.  Add in the flour, baking soda and salt to the bowl and stir until just combined.  Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.  Cling wrap the dough and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. 
Make equal balls of chilled cookie dough and press it into  the mini bundts.  Bake for 22 to 25 minutes or until top is golden and the edges of the cookie is set. 
Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack 
to cool for 10 minutes 
See the soft texture inside the cookies and black diamonds/chocolate chips peeking out..yum..yum
For the Chocolate Frosting - A Small Batch Chocolate Frosting
In a sauce pan add the chopped chocolate and butter, melt it over a double boiler. When melted mix it well so that it is smooth and shiny. Let is cool completely, add in the icing sugar and whisk well till smooth and lump free, add in the milk a teaspoon at a time to make it a spreadable frosting. Spread it over the cooled cookies.  
Enjoy, my hubby loved these cookie bundts and frosting on it was yum.
Labels : Cookies, Biscuits & Cookies, Bundt Bakers, Chocolate Chip, Walnuts, Healthy, Bundt
Bundt Bakers August 2019
Cookies Reimagined as Bundt Cakes


#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page. If you are a food blogger and interested in joining in the Bundt Baking fun please send an email to Stacey at foodlustpeoplelove at gmail dot com. Our theme this month is Cookies Reimagined as Bundt Cakes and our host is Felice from All That's Left Are The Crumbs.
Apricot Pistachio Oatmeal Cookie Bundt from Sweet Sensations
Bundt Cookie Oatmeal and Blueberries from Patyco Candybar
Kingston Bundt Cake from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
Mini Bundt Chocolate Chip Cookie from Sneha's Recipe
Oreo Bundt Cake from Patty’s Cake
Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake from A Day in the Life on the Farm

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Easy Yummy Cheese Ball#FantasticalFood

April 17th is National Cheese ball Day, for,  fantastical food fight we were asked to prepare a sweet or savory Cheese balls . Made these easy, yummy Cheese balls.

You can make it ahead of time, may be even a week in advance if you want to. Just before serving coat them in nuts, so that they don’t get soft. This cheese ball is perfect as a party appetizer, tailgate parties etc..

Just before your guest arrive take it from the fridge roll them in nuts and set it out with some crackers for your guest to serve themselves.

This is a recipe for four, if you are making it for a party then double or triple it accordingly.

Makes 4
Ingredients
70 Grams  Cream cheese , softened

70 Grams Grated  Cheddar cheese
1 Tablespoon  Finely Chopped Scallion
1/4 Teaspoon Hot Sauce
1/4 Teaspoon Mixed Italian Seasonings
A Pinch of Garlic powder
A Dash Freshly Ground Black Pepper
1/3 Cup Toasted Walnuts -  finely chopped
 

Method
Place cream cheese in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth. Add cheese, green onion,  hot sauce, Mixed Italian seasonings, garlic powder and black pepper, mix well to combine.
Use a  spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl and gather the mixture into one ball. Lightly grease your hands and form the mixture into two round balls. 

Place the walnuts on a plate. Hold the cheese ball in one hand and use the other hand to press the walnuts to the outside of the ball, pressing them in gently and turning the ball to coat all sides.  
Serve with crackers.
Labels : Cream Cheese, Cheddar Cheese, Walnuts, Cheese Ball, Fantastical Food Fight
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Nutty Upside Down Cake#BundtBakers


Bundt Bakers is celebrating its 5th year anniversary, our Host and founder of this group Stacy Livingston Rushton asked us to make "Nutty Bundts".  Thank you Stacy for making this group, I am happy to be a part of  Bundt Bakers. 
Here is my Nutty Upside Down Cake, which is full of nuts on the inside and with nutty crunch from outside.
I reduced the sugar for the cake by ¼ cup, since I do not like very sweet cakes and there was sugar in the base too. My friends loved this cake, but, my hubby who is a sweet lover, promptly commented that this cake requires a little more sweetness. 
So increase the sugar by ¼ cup if you want it sweeter, like my hubby.
A  10 inch ring pan is perfect for this batter, since I used an 8 inch bundt pan , had batter remaining made 6 cupcakes, without the crunch.

Ingredients
For Base 
75 Grams Butter
½ Cup Brown Sugar
½ Cup Silvered Almonds
½ Cup Chopped Walnuts
¼ Cup Chopped Pistachios
¼ Cup Silvered Cashewnuts
For Cake200 Grams Butter - I used salted
1 Cup Sugar

4 Large Eggs
1/3 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa powder
1½ Cup All Purpose Flour
1½ Teaspoon Baking Powder
¼ Teaspoon Baking Soda
¾ Cup Buttermilk

Method
For Base
Mix the nuts in a bowl, reserve 1/4 of it for the cake batter. 
In a bundt pan place the butter and heat till it melts then add the   sugar  spread it well.
Sprinkle nuts evenly at the base and sides. Keep aside.

For Cake Batter
Sieve together flour, baking powder, soda and cocoa powder, keep aside. In half of the flour mix add the reserved nuts. 
Beat Butter and sugar till fluffy add essence and eggs, one  at a time till all the eggs are incorporated.  Now fold in flour alternating with butter milk, add the nuts flour and mix it lightly.  
Pour this batter  in the prepared tin and evenly spread it.
 Bake in a preheated for 45 minutes . After you take it from the oven let it cool for 5 for 7 minutes, then immediately turn it upside down. 
I Overturned this cake after an hour since, had to attend mass and the result was that all the base / crunch did not come out, the bottom which had cooled got stuck. 
This I, scraped with spoon and topped it for the cupcakes.
This cake was so soft and nutty, you will love it.
Labels : Bundts, Bundt Bakers, Walnuts, Pistachios, Cashewnuts, Almond
Have a look at the other Nutty Bundts prepared by our bakers:
Almond Amaretto Bundt Cake from Patty's Cake
Baklava Bundt Cake from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
Bundt Cake Nueces Pacanas from Merce`s Cake
Bundt Pan Banana Nut Bread from Palatable Pastime
Date & Walnut Bundt Cake from Living the Gourmet
Gateau de Noix–French Nut Cake from Food Lust People Love
Peanut Butter Cake from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Nutty Upside Down Cake from Sneha's Recipe
 


#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

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