Gluten Free Red Poha And Multi Millets Chocolate Cakelets
10 April, 2017
Millets are packed with nutrition. Its challenging to include them in our children's diet nowadays. These Eggless Multi millets and Red Poha(Flattened Red Rice) chocolate cakelets with a healthy frosting (Chocolate coconut sugar buttercream) are a nutritional and healthy treat for the children.
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Ingredients
- Cakelets - ¼ cup Sorghum Cholam / Jowar Flour
- 1/8 cup foxtail millet Thinai / Kangni flour
- 1/8 cup finger millet Ragi / Nachni flou
- 1/8 cup pearl millet Kambu / Bajra flour
- 1/8 cup finely ground Red Poha flour Measured after the Red Poha is ground
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- ½ cup + 1/8 cup coconut sugar You can add 1/8 cup more if you don’t intend to frost the cakelet
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 flax egg Mix 1 tbsp of flax seed powder with 3 tbsps of water and set aside for 10 – 15 minutes
- ½ cup curd
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
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- Chocolate coconut sugar butter cream icing - 55 gms unsalted butter Room temperature
- ½ cup finely powdered and sieved coconut sugar Measure after the sugar is powdered
- 1 tbsp milk
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
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Instructions
- Cakelets - Prepare Flax Egg and set aside.
- Sieve all the millets flour, Red Poha flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt (Sift at least 5 – 7 times to get a soft texture)
- Dissolve coconut sugar in curd, add the flax egg and mix
- Add vanilla extract, milk, oil to the above mixture and combine well
- Mix the sifted flour mixture to the wet mixture and fold gently.
- Preheat oven @180c
- Place cupcake liners in a muffin tray; fill half of the cup cake liners or food grade silicone cupcake moulds with the batter. Bake @180 for 30 – 35 minutes
- Allow the cakelets to cool completely.
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- Chocolate coconut sugar butter cream icing - Cream butter using an electric beater for 30 seconds.
- Add the sugar and beat for another 30 seconds to combine.
- Add cocoa powder and beat for 30 seconds.
- Add milk and beat until fluffy and creamier.
- Once the cakelets are completely cooled, frost them and relish.
Notes
Double the ingredients of the frosting if needed.
The coconut sugar for the frosting should be finely powdered.
The Red Poha should also be finely powdered.
Sifting the flour is necessary.
The cooking time includes baking time as well the time consumed for preparing the frosting.
