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Easter Crunchy Cakes

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Easter Crunchy CakesEaster Crunchy Cakes

(Makes 8 cakes)

A quick and easy healthy recipe that will delight the family at Easter. These little Easter crunchy cakes are full of healthy ingredients and the chocolate (full of anti-oxidants) gives that desirable chocolate flavour

Ingredients

  •  200gms of Granola Muesli (see recipe below) or buy a good one like Lizi’s Granola
  •  100gms 85% dark chocolate
  • 1tsp vanilla extract
  • A small bag of mini eggs

 

Method

  1.  Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water (don’t allow the water level to touch the bottom of the basin containing the chocolate)
  2. Stir the vanilla extract into the chocolate
  3. Stir the granola into the melted chocolate, just mixing it all through
  4. Place into 8 baking cases and place 1 -2  mini eggs on top
  5. Pop into the fridge to set

Quick and Easy Granola Muesli

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • ½ – 1 tbsp, maple syrup or a molasses sugar
  • 100gms whole rolled oats
  • 2 tbsp roughly chopped dried apricots (ready to eat type) (optional)
  • 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • 2 tbsp sunflower seeds or seed mix or nut mix
  • 2 tbsp ground flaxseed

 Method

  1. Gently heat the coconut oil in the frying pan with the maple syrup and add the oats and cook stirring for 3-4 minutes until they start to go a golden brown.
  2. Add all the other ingredients apart from the ground flaxseed and stir through and cook for a further 2 minutes.
  3. Add the flaxseed at the end and stir through
  4. Store in a covered jar in the fridge

 

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