Cafe Coffee Day With Friends —- Healthy Quinoa Coffee Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup APF
• 1/4 cup quinoa flour (see notes for quinoa flour below👇)
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/ 2 – 3 /4 cup milk
• 2 tbsp coffee powder
• 1/4 cup oil (sunflower or rice bran)
• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
• 1/ 4 cup dark chocolate pieces

Steps

1. Pre – preparation: Bring all the ingredients to room temperature Chop the dark chocolate randomly & coat them with 1 tsp of APF. Keep aside.
2. Dry Ingredients: Sieve APF, quinoa flour & baking powder in a bowl & keep aside.
3. Wet Ingredients: In another bowl take brown sugar & 1 tbsp milk & beat very well. Slowly add 1 tbsp more milk & beat till the mixture turns creamy & changes to light brown in colour.
4. Add oil & vanilla essence & mix well.
5. Add the dry ingredients ie the flour mixture & mix by cut & fold method till everything is incorporated very well.
6. Pour 2 tbsp of mixture in each cupcake mold. Garnish with a few chocolate chips.
7. Bake in a pre – heated oven 180 c for 12 – 15 minutes. Cool completely & serve.
8. Enjoy your Cafe Coffee Day now at home with friends & relish each bite with fun & frolic.
9. How to remove bitterness from quinoa without washing it ? Dry roast quinoa on a very slow flame for 3 – 4 minutes. Cool & grind to make a flour from it. You can store this flour for a month & make multiple of dishes from it like cakes, pancakes, add in Dhokla flour, handvo etc.