Showing posts with label sweet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Currant muesli slices with the smell of raspberry & caramel

I promised myself and now I promise you too (to my 0 readers:)) that I gonna puplish 365 recipes this year.
So today, on the 2nd of January, here is my second helathy sweetness recipe!
Easy peasy, deliciuos, light and healthy!
Here it is:
1 cup of wheat flakes (I used honey flavoured ones)
1/2 cup of corn flakes
1/2 cup of dinkel crunchy (or any kind of mixed muesli)
1 tbs of honey
2 - 3 tbs of milk sugar
2 tea bags of raspberry- caramel tea (or any kind of fruit tea for your taste, but NO black tea)
6 tbs of currant (or be creative:))

Make tea from the 2 tea bags. We make it from 2 just because of the strong flavour.


Mix everything together,use only 1/4 cup from the tea into the mix!!


Leave it for at least 5 minutes, this way the flakes get wet.
Than put them into the muesli baker and bake them for 15 minutes, than turn them and bake the other side for 5-10 minutes.

This time I baked them for 25 minutes without turning them and they bacame a bit burned, so that's why I advise you to bake them on the other way.
Take them out when they are ready, leave them for 5 minutes while they become crunchy.
Enjoy!:)

P.S.: If you don't have a muesli baker, make longish heaps in a baking sheet, do not forget to use baking paper. And bake them on medium temperature, but this way the length of baking can change, check them continuously.

1st of January: started with Caramel frutties

Do you know the feeling when you're staring the shelf of sweets in the shop and your eyes stuck on the unhelathiest butter caramels (ok, I don't know the exact world for these in english, maybe fudge is more exact, athough these taste a bit different) ? My answer is absolutly YES!
I'm addicted to caramel, but I never bought them without pangs of conscience!:)

I want to concience that every meals and sweets have a healthier version.
That statement made me wanna create the new version of these caramel sweets and here they are: I called them "caramel frutties" as their taste really reminds me of the tutti frutti candies you can buy in shops.

I tell you what did I exactly make, but I warn you, I baked just a small portion, that's why I used a bit weird quantity from every ingridients.

Let's start it. What you need:
150 ml yogurt (app. 10 big tablespoon)
150 g fructose (app. 7.5 tbs)
a half tbs of honey
a big pinch of salt

You'll need also a pot of water with ice.

Pour all the ingridiens into a pot and start to heat it up on middle degree.


Counting from the boiling it took me app. 35-40 minuntes to make it ready. Do not forget to mix it continuously. I was in a panic when it didn't seem to work, but be patient, after 20-25 min you'll see how it gets darker and thicker.


If you are not sure if it's ready or not, drop a little bit of caramel into the icy water and if it falls to pieces, it still needs some time.


Ok, you'll think I'm mental, but I didn't have ice in the freezer, so I used some snow! haha Why not, be creative!;)
Anyway.. So if it's ready, place baking paper into a flat baking tin or baking sheet or whatever.. it's not the most important in my opinion!:) And butter the paper. ( My kitchen was out of baking paper, I just buttered a plastic bowl and it worked)
Pour the caramel into the baking tin. Optimally you have to make it app. 2 cm thick.


Leave it in the fridge for a few hours. I've already tasted it after 2 hours, so it doesn't need too much time.If you don't have so much time, than take it to the freezer.
Finally slice it up into small cubes and enjoy!!



P.S.: Next time I'll try to replace the half of the fructose with milk sugar which is even more healthy and less sweet.
Did you know that milk sugar can be used also in anti candida diets?