Sour Cream and walnut pound cake

Ingredients: (Measurements are very important to prepare this yum cake.)

Sour Cream - 1 cup
All purpose flour - 3 cups ( I used unbleached flour)
Eggs - 2 large
Unsalted  butter - 1 stick at room temperature
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Salt  - 1/2 tsp

Topping:

Walnut - 1/2 cup, chopped
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 2 tsp
Ground Cinnamon - 2 tsp

Method :

• Beat together butter, sugar and eggs. Whisk nicely until fluffy.
• In a separate bowl,  mix together flour, baking soda, salt.
• Add this flour mixture to the creamy butter mixture.
• Mix it well.
• Turn on the oven to 350F.
• In a separate small bowl add the topping ingredients and mix it well.
• In a baking cake pan, either Grease or use the foil (I use foil as it will be easy to take the cake from the pan).
• Pour half of the batter to the pan, sprinkle the topping mixture and pour the rest of the batter on top of the topping. Top with rest of the toppings.
• Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes ( depending on the oven) . It took me 40 minutes to bake.
• From 30 minutes, check every 5 minutes. You know it is done when the knife inserted at the center comes out clean.
• Let it cool before serving.
• This will stay good for couple of days, if covered and refrigerated.
• This will be great addition to breakfast as it is not that sweet.
• Enjoy.

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Sour Cream and walnut pound cake

Banana Cinnamon and oats muffins

This is a very easy to make and super healthy and tasty to eat. I followed the recipe fromVeggieplatter. It turned out so delicious.  Thanks veggieplatter !.
Since we  eat eggs, I added egg to get extra protein. Eggs are totally optional.

Ingredients:

Ground oats - 1 cup (Just grind the oats, or use the store brought oat flour)
All purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Baking Soda - 3/4 tsp
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
salt - 1/2 tsp
Egg - 1 (optional)
Milk - 1/4 cup
Chopped walnut - 1 cup
Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 cup
Unsalted Butter - 1/2 stick
Mashed Banana - 1 big , use 2 if you not using egg as it keeps the muffins moist.

Method:

• Beat the egg nicely, Whisk together sugar and butter in a big bowl.
• In a separate bowl, add oats flour, all purpose flour, salt, Cinnamon powder baking powder and soda ; mix them.
• Add this dry ingredients to the egg mixture.
• Add the walnuts, milk and mashed banana. ( keep some walnuts to top the muffins)
• Stir all together until just combined.
• Sprinkle the rest of the walnuts on each muffin cups.
• Preheat the oven to 375F
• Grease or line up the muffins pan with the paper cups,  spoon the batter to fill 3/4 the of the cups.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and a knife inserted comes out clean.
• Enjoy.

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Banana Cinnamon and oats muffins