Christmas Stollen for Christmas party!

How do I avoid gaining weight for my upcoming Christmas party? 

Hohoho! Let's make some smart splurges so you feel satisfied with your holiday indulgence (no guilt!).

After a few times failed to bake an edible low-carb version of Ginger Breadman cookies for my Christmas holiday cookies craving, I was so demotivated. :( Eventually I changed my mind (understand that cookies is not my kinda thing). So I decided to bake Christmas Stollen! This is my first trial baking low carbs, gluten-free and "healtified" version of Christmas Stollen, it turns out to be perfect- moist, nutty, and perfected with the soft sense of cinnamon fragrance. I can't wait to share with all my dearest bimbos.

More good news for my dearest friends that complaints to me that they do not have a electric mixer making excuse that they couldn't bake - i mixed the ingredients using a blender (usual juice blender or food processor). Ha! Ha!


Ingredients A:
1. 4 eggs
2. 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
3. 1/2 cup of non-GMO coconut palm sweetener (or natural honey)
4. 1/4 cup of cranberry or other non-sugar added dried fruits
5. 1/2 cup of chopped walnut
6. 1/2 cup of grapeseed oil (or olive oil)

Ingredients B:
1. Half cup of coconut flour
2. Pinch of salt
3. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
4. 2 teaspoon of cinnamon power

A bit of icing sugar for dusting & deco.  

Step: 
1. Pre-heat oven at 175 °C, greased the baking pan.
2. Mix ingredients A to blender and pulse.
3. Add in ingredients B and pulse.
4. Pour batter into greased baking pan.
5. Bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick check comes out clean.

Let cold, decorate with dust of icing and serve! Dig-in!

Stollen is a traditional German cake, usually eaten during the Christmas season, when it is called Weihnachtsstollen or "Christstollen." - Wikipedia

xoxo, Ms.SS

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Moist Cinnamon Muffin - low carbs & gluten-free

This cinnamon muffin is so moist! And most importantly ---> LOW CARBS! It makes 12 mini muffins and contains 2g net carbs each. It's perfect for tea time and munchies between meals. Have fun baking!

 

Mixture for Topping:

½ tablespoon natural non-sugar added honey (5g carbs)
½ tablespoon cinnamon powder (1 g net carbs)
1 ½ tablespoon olive oil

Combine honey, cinnamon powder and olive oil in a small bowl

Mixture for muffin:

250g almond flour (8g net carbs)
½ tablespoon cinnamon powder (1 g net carbs)
½ teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
¼ cup butter (melted in microwave for 1 min)
½ tablespoon natural non-sugar added honey (5g carbs)
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Direction:

1. Pre-heat oven at 175°C and grease muffin cups with olive oil
2. Sift and mix almond flour, cinnamon powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl (A)
3. In a larger bowl, using hand mixer, blend together melted butter, honey, eggs and vanilla (B)
4. Blend (A) into (B) for about 2-3 minutes until well mixed. The blended mixture should be more liquid and wet as we are baking a moist muffin
5. Pour mixture into greased muffin cups
6. Spoon topping onto muffins mixture and stir evenly on muffin top
7. Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes at 175°C, until toothpick comes out clean

Let cool for an hour and enjoy your low carbs delight!

You may realised my low-carb recipes have substitute normal white baking flour/ cake flour with almond flour. Almond flour is perfect substitute for high carbs flour for low carbs baking.You can find almond flour at Jaya Grocer Cheras Central at RM15.90.

Stay tune for more low carbs recipes! Have fun diet!

xoxo, Ms.SS

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Chocolate Chips Banana Cake

Many thanks for my colleague, Sim for this recipe. I really love Sim’s banana cake and I think that is the best banana cake that I ever had.

I make this banana cake with her great recipe – as usual, I substitute normal flour with Almond flour and sugar with low-carb sweetener. I brought this to office and everyone likes it. No flour?! No one believe it. Melting chocholate chips + banana is really a great indulgence!

See here for my low-carbs and gluten-free Chocolate Chips Banana Bake.

Ingredients:

70g Almond flour
30g Coconut flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
½ teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of olive oil or melted butter
3 eggs
2 over-ripe bananas (mashed)
50g of coconut palm syrup or honey (I got this coconut palm syrup as a gift from my boss!) xD
30g of dark chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 200°C and greased the baking pan
2. Mix Almond flour, Cononut flour, baking soda and salt in a large bowl
3. Add in Olive oil/ butter, eggs, mashed banana, syrup to the dry ingredient and blend with hand mixer for 3 minutes (or until well blend)
4. Add in chocolate chips and fold gently with spatula, set batter aside for 5 minutes (to allow baking soda to react)
5. Scoop batter into baking pan or cup cake sheets. Bake for 40 minute until toothpick check comes out clean.
6. Cool and serve

Make one mini loft of approx. 8 slices and 6 mini cupcakes

P/S: My boss also so kind to give me a healthy sweetener --- >>> a Low GI and gluten-free Coconut Palm Syrup. I’m so blessed :) 

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Simple Cranberry Bread - low-carbs & gluten-free

My another recipe! This low-carb and gluten free cranberry bread is so easy to make and yet so delicious. It is especially tasty to toast with butter, to bright-up a Monday blue morning. Good recipe for low-carb dieter who craves for bread breakfast, this bread definitely works for your carbs craving. Come on peeps, stay on track!

Ingredients:
200g of almond flour
Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
3 eggs

½ tablespoon no sugar added honey (you may substitute honey with sugar substitute such as Splenda or Stevia (can get from Jaya Grocer Cheras Central) - Splenda only contains approx. 0.01g carb per packet, it is good for your first two weeks of your low-carbs induction)
½ teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon of Olive oil
25g of dried cranberries (unsweetened) (depends on personal preference, i'm on low-carb diet and cranberry is naturally sweet, i reduced it to minimal)

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, mix well the almond flour, salt and baking soda
2. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, then add honey, lemon juice, vanilla essence and olive oil.
3. Blend wet ingredients into dry and add cranberries
4. Batter texture would be very sticky, add a bit more of olive oil to smoothen the texture and scoop batter into a greased baking pan
5. Bake at 175°C for 30 minutes; or until a toothpick comes out clean
6. Cool and serve
   

Makes 1 mini loaf of about 8 slices and a mini bun.

Enjoy your low-carb bread!

Like chocolate but on low carbs diet? Don't worry, make healthy Low-carb Chocolate Almond  for your chocolate craving!

xoxo, Ms. SS

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Low carbs Chocolate Almond Bread

A simple, delicious and sugar-free bread and what's more - it's LOW CARBS. Perfect dessert/ breakfast treat for low carbs dieters! It's so easy to prepare and only 5 ingredients are required. I made this for my weekday breakfast to go with my favourite office pantry's Americano.

Ingredients:

130 g Almond flour (2g carbs) 

1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda (1g carb)
1 tablespoon of melted butter (0g carb)
1 tablespoon of melted non-sugar-added dark chocolate (5g carbs)

(nutrition data from: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/2419135/2?quantity=2.5)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 175°C. Greased baking pan with olive oil.
2. In a medium size bowl, mix almond flour, salt and baking soda
3. Melt chocolate and butter in microwave for 1 minute. Fold over the batter every 20 seconds
4. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs for approx. 2 minutes until frothy
5. Mix butter and chocolate mixture into eggs and combined well
6. Mixed almond flour mix into wet mix
7. Bake at 200°C for 30 minutes. Check by inserting toothpick if it comes out clean.
8. Cool and serve

Make one loft of 8 slices, each contains approx 1 g net carb.

Low-carbs is not as boring as you may thought (not only egg/meat and vege), with a bit of effort, you can discover tonnes of tasty yet low-carbs (most of them are gluten-free too) receipes. May this keep you on track and achieve your weight loss objective fast!

Stay tune for more low-carbs and healthy recipes!

Also, read about how i shed 4 kgs in 2 weeks here: http://miss2mrschic.blogspot.com/2014/11/i-loss-4kg-in-2-weeks.html

xoxo, Ms. SS

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Healthy Banana Walnut Raisins Bread with Organic Buckwheat Flour Recipe (No sugar, No Oil)

Last Friday during the Isetan Year End sale, I managed to redeem this loaf pan using the vouchers that I have. I was so pumped up about baking that I bought the necessary ingredients the next day and to ensure that I don't procrastinate till my loaf pan goes missing, I decided to bake on that night itself. 

To be frank, I have this tiny fear about baking. Not sure why, but every time i decide to 'experiment' and 'bake' on my own, i.e. no mama's supervision, something goes haywire. (Yea, I caused a tiny fire once in the microwave oven, while trying to bake sweet potatoes) So, this time, the oven didnt fail me. While pre-heating the oven, the whole house blackout. Short-circuit! Damn..And my mom was just outside the kitchen watching tv. She was like, 'what did you do to the oven?'. zzzzz..Good thing, there is a plan B. Steam bread. Like super big 'mantao' or 'pao'. Still taste awesome. Look at my awesome pics below. 

Yummy-licious Banana Bread in my new loaf pan

My first loaf- in its bday suit (so proud) 

Can you believe this has NO OIL, NO SUGAR. OMGG!! 

And its so easy to make this. Baking is like a creative process. I found this recipe on the net and I just add this take out that n it still works out great. Feast your eyes on my recipe:


Dry:
1 cup organic buckwheat flour
1/2 cup flaxseed flour/powder
1/2 cup hi-protein bread flour
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
Handful of pumpkin seeds, walnuts and raisins (depends on your preference)


Wet:
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
4 ripe bananas


Directions:
1) Mix all dry ingredients.
2) Whisk egg, add banana and vanilla extract and mash all till smooth.
3) Add the wet ingredients to the dry mixture.
4) Place mixture in a loaf pan.

5) Steam for 40 mins.

Hope you find my healthy recipe helpful. This bread is high in protein and omega3 with all natural goodness.

Xoxo,
Miss Sue_eats

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