Friday, May 22, 2015

Healthy and Delicious Oats Coffee Cake

I Love Cakes and have been baking cakes using the cake mix. But those cakes are usually not healthy and can't have daily. With the Journey of making healthy items ,this was my first try for healthy cake.
To my Surprise this experiment was super hit !.

So lets start with the ingredients. 

Ingredients

1 cup multigrain flour 
1 cup oats flour (take a cup of Oats and grind it well)
1 1/2 tsp coffee (you can increase or decrease based on your preference of coffee taste)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp choco powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 butter
1.5-2 cups of brown sugar (depending on how sweet you prefer)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup of raising
1/4 cup of walnut
2 Tbsp Oil

Steps

1) Keep butter outside and let it come to room temperature so that it is smooth and not liquid [This would take approx 1 hr ]

2) Dry Ingredients - Sieve Multigrain flour, choco powder, coffee, baking powder and oats flour in one vessel. Mix the mixture and keep aside.

3) Beat Butter, brown sugar and vanilla essence. Start with slow speed and mix at full speed for 5 mins.

4) Add 2 eggs and beat the mixture for another 5 mins.

5) Now slowly add the dry mixture and little milk alternately to the wet mixture and continue beating. Continue this till the entire dry mixture and milk is mixed to the final batter.

6) add the Oil and finally beat for atleast 5 more mins at full speed.

7) Mix raisins in the cake batter with help of spatula using the folding technique.

8) Pre heat the oven at 400 F 

9) cover the cake tin with Parchment Paper. Pour the batter in it.

10) Bake the cake at 370 F 50 mins or until toothpick comes out clear. 

Tip: Check with toothpick after 40-45 mins. Depending on the container the time differs.