Butter crackers | Whole Wheat butter cracker are super healthy snacks for kids and adults. Butter gives amazing flavour to this cracker. Guilt free to munch on.
Giving healthy snacks for kids is every mom's biggest concern, well at times more than helathy, there is one big question, whether they will eat it. The one which worked yesterday may not work today.
Everyday its experimenting.Ever since Vishvak started solid food, the topic about kids food will always come whenever I talk to my friends. Whenever my friend suggest something I wanted to try.
3 course healthy meal for is one side but healthy mid- morning and evening snacks was another concern. Vishvak was initially big fan of corn puff then he started liking store brought multi grain crackers. I wanted to try something in home.
Ingredients
- All-purpose-flour / maida - 1 cup
- Baking Soda - 1 tsp
- Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup tightly pressed
- Salt - pinch
- Sugar - 3/4 cup
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Flavor less Oil - 1/2 cup
- Sour cream / Curd - 1/2 cup
- Water - 1/4 cup
- Vanilla - 1 tsp
- Instant coffee powder - 1/2 tsp
- Frosting:
- Unsalted butter - 3/4 cup
- Confectionery sugar - 2 + 1/2 cup
- Unsweetened cocoa powder - 1/3 cup tightly pressed
- Heavy cream - 3 tbsp
- Salt - pinch
- Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
- Chocolate ganache :
- Semi sweet chocolate chips - 2.5 oz
- Heavy cream - 2.5 oz
- Salt - pinch
- Vanilla extract - 1/4 tsp
- Coffee powder - pinch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F or 175°C
- Take two 6 inch cake pan and line them with parchment paper and grease with cooking spray or oil
- In a small mixing bowl add instant coffee powder and water; mix well till the coffee powder is well blended with water
- In a wide mixing bowl add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar; combine everything well with a whisk
- After the microwaved coffee is cool add milk, oil, and vanilla extract and mix well
- Make a dent in the dry ingredients bowl
- Add the wet ingredients and sour cream, mix just until all the ingredients are incorporated; avoid over mixing
- Avoid over mixing it yields a dense cake
- Divide the equal amount of batter between two tins and add
- Bake for 29 -33 minutes or until a toothpick/skewer inserted comes out clean
- Cooldown both the cakes for 10 minutes and carefully flip the cake on the rack, remove the parchment paper, and allow both cakes to cool completely
- How to make chocolate frosting
- In a wide vessel add softened butter and beat it well on medium speed until creamy for about 2 -3 minutes
- Add confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, heavy cream, salt, and vanilla extract
- Beat on lowest speed for around 1 minute or until everything is combined well
- After the mixture is well combined slightly increase the speed and beat till you see creamy buttercream frosting
- Assemble the cake
- Add little frosting on the cake board and place the base cake
- Use a skewer and make holes around the cake and drizzle a generous amount of chocolate syrup on the entire cake
- Add a generous amount of frosting and spread
- Place another cake over the base cake
- Add a base coat of frosting and refrigerate the came for at least 1 hour
- After 1 hour add one more layer of frosting and level; refrigerate
- Chocolate ganache
- In a mixing bowl add chocolate chips, vanilla extract, salt, and coffee powder; mix well
- In a cooking pan add heavy cream and boil in low flame
- Cook till the heavy cream turns warm
- Switch off before they start boiling
- Add it to the chocolate mixture and let it sit for 4 minutes. Let the chocolates get well immersed in cream
- Stir well after 4 minutes
- In a colander strain the ganache and keep it at room temperature for least 20 minutes and refrigerate for 20 minutes
- Ganache drip
- Take a spoon and gently add ganache around the cake and add it to the top portion
- Refriegatare the cake for at least 2 hours
- Decorate the cake according to your preferences and refrigerated until use
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Notes
- You can also wrap it up in cling wrap and refrigerate to use it later
- If the frosting is thin add more sugar to increase sweetness or cocoa powder to make it chocolatey
- For thick frosting add a few tsp/tbsp of milk to make it spreadable texture
- Use a generous amount of chocolate syrup to make the cake soft and chocolatey
- For light moist cake avoid over mixing
- Vanilla essence is an artificial flavoring agent so use only a few drops
- For the sugar syrup, boil 2 tbsps sugar in 4 tbsps water until the sugar dissolves and begins to boil well. Cool this and pour over the cake after cooling completely. Go ahead frosting the cake.
- Avoid adding frosting/ ganache to the hot cake
- Using a colander for me ganache is optional. Since I have used chocolate chips I did that to make sure I get a smooth ganache
- You can use a chocolate bar instead of chocolate chips
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True feeding children the right kind of food is the biggest concern for mothers and if you have a fussy eater the concern just doubles. The butter crackers are wholesome for the little ones. Having whole wheat its a healthier option and lightly flavoured with cumin, the little ones are bound to love these.
Thanku Piyali:-)
Healthy munchies V.. ...
Thanku Chitr:-)
Good healthy snack Vidya! 🙂 They are looking very crunchy too 🙂
Thanku Chcook:-)
perfect for my evening coffee 🙂
Thanku Bikram:-)
I love this spicy ,tasty & healthy crackers .
Thanku Madhavi:-)
These whole-wheat butter crackers looks so crunchy and crisp. Nice share! 🙂
Thanku Anu:-)
Vidya.. nee latea vandalum latesta varuva nu Malar ku theriyum. So no worries. I think only yesterday we kept talking about blog if not all our calls will be vetti aratai dan la.
Between great cracker. Glad your kiddo liked it.
We had hot blog related topics na Sri;-) oh ya namba usual vetti kadhai tana pesuvom.. Un recipe podum pothu I have lot of things to write:-) thanks da
Wow, these crackers look superb. At first sight,I thought those were store bought. Then only I saw the recipe. It looks very crunchy. Crunchiness is a plus when it comes to kids.
I so understand what you said. One day kids may like something and the next day, they don't even want to taste it. " Kids", right ? 🙂
Thanku Rasakama:-)
I just love these Vidya! Food is always a challenge with little ones, and it is great to be able to make your own snack food. I can't wait to try these 🙂
Thanku Antonio:-)
Wonderful crackers Vidya, they sound simple to make and would be so much better than anything you would buy in the store.
Thanku Suzanne:-)
Delicious butter crackers love it.
Thanku Swathi:-)
Healthy and crunchy one dear 🙂 I can finish off this one in no time
Thanku Kushi:-)
Vidya,
These butter crackers look amazing and so healthy! I am drooling looking at them!
Thanku Sandhya:-)
These crackers look so delicious! I love the idea of making my own crackers - I'll have to try your recipe!
Thanku Rachel:-)
I'm really keen to try and make these. Thanks for sharing.
Thanku Peggy:-)
perfect snack for tea time!! looks crunchy!!
Thanku Sundari:-)
Its very healthy snack and easy also..thanks
Thanku Jaleel:-)
Wheat crackers look so yummy and crispy..
Whole-wheat butter crackers looks so amazing and yummy share 🙂
This is a good one, I have to try this for Sid!