Healthy Easter recipes
Ready to have a healthy and happy Easter? We’ve got plenty of healthy Easter recipes for you to enjoy. From carrot cupcakes to wholemeal hot cross buns, we hope you have fun making these dishes.
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Carrot cupcakes
Ingredients
- 3 large carrots, peeled and grated
- 140g sultanas
- 150ml orange juice
- 80ml vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp low-fat plain yoghurt
- 115g wholemeal flour
- 115g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs
Optional – frosting
- 100g light soft cheese (cold from fridge)
- 100g quark (cold from
fridge) OR 100g Greek yoghurt - 3 tbsp icing sugar
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 160°C/fan140°C/gas mark 3 put papercases into a 12 bun tray.
- Put sultanas in a bowl, pour over the orange juice and leave to soak.
- Mix together wholemeal flour, self-raising flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, combine the eggs and sugar and whisk until thick and foamy.
- Start to slowly add the oil and yoghurt and continue whisking until well combined.
- Add the flour mixture in batches and fold in gently.
- Fold the carrots and sultanas (drained) into the mixture.
- Once the carrots and sultanas have been added, you can spoon the mixture into the bun cases and bake for 25 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Allow to cool. During your cool time, you can make the frosting. To make the frosting for your cupcakes, gently combine soft cheese, quark OR Greek yoghurt, and icing sugar.
- Once the cakes are cool, swirl on the frosting. Eat and enjoy (and store the rest in the fridge)!
Oaty Easter cookies
Ingredients
Apple sauce – serves 4
Banana or nut butter – serves 6
- 250g oats
- 3 heaped tbsp apple sauce, OR 2 ripe bananas, OR 115g nut butter of choice
Toppings
- 4 tbsp Greek yoghurt
- Fruits of your choice -strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apple, orange
Method
- Preheat oven to 200°C/gas mark 6
- Next, grab a mixing bowl, mix oats with EITHER apple sauce OR bananas, OR nut butter. Are you using bananas? Make sure to mash them as you are combining.
- For the apple sauce recipe – split mixture into 4. For the banana and nut butter – split into 6.
- Roughly form mixture into flat egg shapes, about 1cm thick. Place on an oven tray or directly on oven rack.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Decorate cookies with yoghurt and fruits – you could eventry to turn one into
a bunny shape!
Wholemeal hot cross buns
Serves 15
Ingredients
Buns:
- 500g strong wholemeal flour
- 60g Silver Spoon Half
Spoon sugar - 7g (1 sachet) fast-action yeast
- 75g sultanas
- 25g dried mixed fruit
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 300ml skimmed milk
- 30g low-fat butter
spread - 1 egg
Crosses
- 75g plain flour
- 75ml (about 5 tbsp) water
Glaze
- 3 tbsp apricot jam
Method
- Add the flour, Half Spoon sugar, yeast, sultanas, mixed fruit, cinnamon and mixed spice to a large mixing bowl and mix together.
- After this, add the milk and butter to a small saucepan. Then you can bring the milk and butter to a slight simmer before taking the mix off the heat.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg.
- Create a hole in the flour mixture and gradually stir in the wet ingredients to form a dough.
- Transfer to a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
- After you’ve kneaded, put the dough back into the bowl, cover with cling film or a clean tea towel and leave to rise for 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.
- Transfer the dough onto a floured surface and squeeze out the air. Now it’s time to split the dough into 15 equally sized pieces (about 70g each). Shape each piece into a bun and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Cover the buns with cling film or a clean tea towel and leave to rise for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6. In a small bowl, mix the flour and water to form a paste to create the crosses. Transfer the paste into a piping bag or sealable food bag (you can cut off a corner of the bag to act as a nozzle).
- Once the buns have risen, pipe crosses onto the top of each bun. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until golden.
- Gently heat 3 tbsp apricot jam in a pan and glaze the buns while they are still warm. If you don’t have a pastry brush to glaze with, you can just use the back of a spoon.
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