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Healthy Oreo biscuits

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Oreo biscuits are favorite with almost all kids, tried my best to make it healthy..... Ingredients Whole wheat flour               1.5 cups Butter unsalted.                    1/2 cup + 3tblspn Raw cane sugar.                   1 cup + 3 tblspn Dark cocoa powder.           2 tbspn + 1 tblspn Chocolate essence.                1/4 spn Baking powder.                     1 tspn Baking soda.                            1/2 tspn Milk.                                           3 to 4 tblspn Cornflour.                                  1 tblspn Salt a pinch Method Take a bowl , cream well melted butter and raw cane sugar till it becomes light in colour. Add chocolate essence, Whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt to it and mix well . Add milk little by little and form a dough. Refrigerate dough for 15 minutes. Take it out, roll out a big chapati using 2 butter paper and cut out round shape cookies with a cookie cutter. Place them in a b

Whole wheat Kesar bread

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I love to experiment with breads. Recently during our trip to Ladakh, we bought some pure Kashmiri kesar( saffron). Was wondering how to use saffron as we use it rarely only in some deserts which is made once a while, but breads are baked almost every week in my home. Hence, thought of incorporating it into my bread, let's see how...... Ingredients Whole wheat flour.             3 cups Milk powder.                        2 tblspn Saffron strands.                 1 tblspn Lukewarm Milk                  1/2 cup Lukewarm water.                1/2 cup Tutifruti.                                2 tblspn Honey.                                  2tblspn + 2 tblspn Yeast.                                   1.5 tspn Butter @ room temp.          3 tblspoon Salt to taste Method Add the saffron strands to lukewarm milk and keep it aside for 10 minutes. Take a large bowl, mix well yeast, lukewarm water and 2 tblspn honey and keep with closed lid till its activated

Healthy choco fill cookies

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Dark fantasy choco fill cookies who doesn't like? Not only the kids but even the adults love the crunchy crust with soft chocolate oozing out....but how about a healthy version of it???? Let's see in the recipe below.. Ingredients Whole wheat flour.                   1 cup Roasted ragi flour.                     1/2 cup Melted jaggery.                           1 cup Butter @room temp.                  1/2 cup Baking soda.                                 1/2 tspn Baking powder.                           1tspn Vanila essence.                             Few drops Chocolate essence(optional).     Few drops Cocoa powder.                              2 tbspn Dark chocolate.                             1 cup Method Melt dark chocolate and keep it aside to cool down. Melt jaggery and let it cool( not completely, just till warm). Mix whole wheat flour, ragi flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder. Take butter, Vanila essence, chocolate essence