Category Archives: desserts

Airplane Cookies are here!

December 29, 2020 flynthings 2 Comments

Hold Short and Wait

That’s how I have felt this year.

I wish it was otherwise. But I am so thankful for everyone who was sane, showed empathy, and compassion for their fellow Americans.

I did not fly this year. I was willing to hold short and wait for my fellow countrymen as we figured out the unusual times we were going through. 2021 will continue these challenges. And I will continue to support whatever is safe to get us through these troubling times.

So while we hold short and wait, here are some cookies to celebrate the holidays and bring in 2021

Ingredients:

2 cups Blanched Almond Flour
1/4 cup Maple Syrup
1/4 cup Coconut Oil
1 tsp Cardamom powder
2 tbsp. Orange Zest
1 tbsp. Lemon Zest
1/2 tsp baking powder

Icing:

1 cup granulated sugar
Juice of one orange
1 tsp vanilla essence

In a bowl, mix almond flour, baking power, orange zest, lemon zest, cardamom powder, coconut oil, coconut oil and maple syrup.

Refrigerate the mix for 30-60 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

When ready to bake, layout dough between parchment sheets, roll and cut with airplane cookie cutters and layout on a baking sheet.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden.

Decorate with desired icing.

Baking, cookies, desserts, Treats

Airplane Cookies have Arrived & Departed!

December 22, 2018 flynthings 3 Comments

It has been a while since I posted here. Not that I haven’t been cooking new recipes, but just no time to take pictures and post. I hope to start doing this more often as I ramp up my effort to clean eating and fitness in the new year!

As has been the tradition the past few years since I purchased my Airplane Cookie Cutters, I baked Airplane Cookies for the holiday party at work again. As always I kept track of recipes that sounded interesting and selected the one I wanted to try.

This year there were two that came close, and I almost thought I would try both. The first one that caught my eye was the Almond and currant Christmas Cookies. They looked delicious! And then there was the Hazelnut, Cocoa Nibs and Cardamon Cookies. Yummy!

I went with the Almond and Currant Christmas Cookies. I made very minor changes to the recipe. The only changes I made were I used only egg whites instead of egg yoke and I replaced currants with dried cherries. You can find the original recipe here.

Overall I was very happy with the result!Happy Holidays!

Baking, desserts, Muffins

Cherry Friands

May 20, 2017 flynthings 7 Comments

I can’t re-blog any more in WordPress…What gives?

But glad to see cherries back in the groceries!

This is a re-post from September 2016.

Looking forward to making this again!

Cherry Friands

When I saw these, Cherry Friands, I knew I desperately wanted to try them. I saved the recipe. I even saved my last batch of fresh cherries in the freezer just for this recipe!

I created a lighter version with less butter and maple syrup. Here’s how I made mine.

Ingredients:

45 grams flour
3/4 stick butter (will use only 1/2 next time)
80 grams almond meal
1/3 cup maple syrup
3 egg whites
a pinch of salt
6 pitted cherries

Prepare a 6 muffin tin. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a bowl, whisk together: melted butter and egg whites. Add in flour, almond meal, pinch of salt and maple syrup. Add 1-2 tbsp of batter into muffin tins. Top with a pitted cherry.

Bake for 20 minutes or until cooked and toothpick test passes.

Enjoy with a nice cuppa tea!

bread, desserts

Guilt free Vegan, Banana, Coconut, and Dark Chocolate Bread

April 5, 2017 flynthings

So, I had some ripe bananas, finals and stress.

What better way to beat the two, but to bake some bread.

I baked some guilt free, vegan, banana, walnut, coconut, and dark chocolate bread with white and whole wheat flour and ate guilelessly, while I stressed out over my finals!

I followed the recipe almost to a T.

You can find the full recipe here.

Baking, breakfast, brunch, desserts, Muffins, snacks

Cranberry Friands

February 2, 2017 flynthings 2 Comments

I really enjoyed my Cherry Friands.

A lot.

I have been eagerly awaiting the Cherry season so I can make them again with fresh cherries.

Meanwhile, I decided to try some Cranberry Friands, mostly following this recipe. It makes 12 friands and here’s how I made mine.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup almond meal
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/2 tsp baking power
1 stick butter
5 egg whites
1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup coconut flakes
2 tbsp white chocolate bits
a handful of slivered almonds (optional)

Pre-heat oven to 360 degrees F. Prepare two muffin tins.

In a bowl mix together flour, almond meal, and baking powder. Whisk together egg whites, melted butter and sugar. Combine the two and mix well. Fold in cranberries, coconut flakes and chocolate bits. Mix well.

Scoop and add batter to muffin tins about 3/4 full. Sprinkle some slivered almonds and bake for 25 minutes.

Enjoy with a cuppa tea!

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Best of 2016

December 20, 2016 flynthings 4 Comments

I slacked off in 2016. But that is understandable. My schedule was so busy, that I had less time to try new recipes. I did try some new, retried several old, and tasty recipes!

Here are some favorite recipes from 2016.

In January, I kicked off the year, with some another fun Black-eyed Peas and Collard Greens recipes. This one is a keeper!

I even tried two roll recipes: Jalapeno, Scallion and Garlic and Sun-dried Tomato and Jalapeno. Both were so delicious, that I continued to make them throughout the year!

I attempted the 21-day beach body diet in early 2016, and here’s my version of Bulghur Wheat Upma, designed to meet the container requirement (Disclaimer: I am not a certified Beach Body coach, so use at your own discretion!)

Another fun recipe in February from the beach body diet was the Brown Rice Paella.

March was all about Cauliflower Nirvana. Period!

Come April, I put all else aside for a two week vacation down under. What an incredible trip!

May is always, typically about Cherries.

I also experimented with other recipes like Mango Coconut Scones

And learnt to make Bagels… Sun Dried Tomato and Jalapeno bagels, of course 🙂

Summertime, to beat the heat, I experimented with many Popsicle recipes, many of them with mango or cherries: my two favorite fruits.

I maintained a scant patio garden this summer, which was plagued by over zealous squirrels. The most exciting vegetable from my patio garden this year was zucchini!

August was about Savory Sun-dried Tomato Kalamata Olive and Jalapeno bread.

Two fun recipes from September included, plunging into Cauliflower Rice and Stir Fried Vegetables.

And these delicious Cherry Friands!

And another variation of the Quinoa Bisibele Bath.

October, I found Mango Chia Pudding, and it was terrific. It has fast become my go-to breakfast items!

November was incredibly busy. Come December, I did try the Tian.

But, December is all about the holidays… about Airplane Cookies!

Have a very Happy New Year!

Hope to see you back here next year!

Baking, cookies, desserts

It’s Time… for Limited Edition Airplane Cookies!

December 14, 2016 flynthings 6 Comments

Happy Holidays!

Once a year, I bring out my airplane cookie cutters, scour the web for a good cookie recipe and off I go. This year, Ronit made it all too easy with her Cut out Almond Butter Cookies. The moment I saw it, I knew this was it.

I made no changes other than to dip some of my cookies in chocolate and add some sprinkles.

This might be one of my best airplane cookies so far.

desserts, popsicle

It’s Popsicle Week: Cardamon flavored Mango Popsicle

June 24, 2016 flynthings 5 Comments

Now that summer is officially here, the heat is on. With highs in the upper 80’s or mid 90’s, I have been craving cooler stuff such as ice cream.

Last year I tried some of the Popsicle from Wit & Vinegar’s Popsicle Week. As it happens this week is Popsicle Week!

This year I am trying some of mine as well as some from past Popsicle Week recipes. Here are a couple I have tried this week that were so good!

Cardamon flavored Mango Popsicle:

1 cup lite coconut milk (or use Almond milk)
1.25 cups mango pulp or lightly blended mango (I left mine chunky)
1/4 cup white chocolate bits
a drizzle of lemon juice
a dash of cardamon

Bring the coconut milk to boil and add white chocolate bits. Warm until the chocolate melts. Mix well. Meanwhile lightly process the mango if using diced mango until blended into small bits. Mix in the milk mixture. Add cardamon and mix well.

Pour into Popsicle molds and refrigerate for four hours.

When ready to serve, eat them as is or melt some dark chocolate and dip the end of the Popsicle in it. Then roll it in some grated coconut. Enjoy!

I also tried these cherry flavored Popsicle from here.

Pistachio Dipped Cherry and White Chocolate Pops

1 cup almond or lite coconut milk
1.25 cups cherries, pitted
1/4 cup white chocolate

Bring the coconut milk to boil and add white chocolate bits. Warm until the chocolate melts. Mix well. Meanwhile lightly process the cherries into bits. Add to the milk mixture and mix well.

Pour into Popsicle molds and refrigerate for four hours.

Just before serving, optionally melt some white chocolate, and dip the Popsicle in it. Next roll it in some pistachio bits. Enjoy!