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How to make the Perfect Blueberry Compote in under 10 minutes!

Perfect Blueberry Compote … the simplest and quickest way to make the most delicious and quite perfect blueberry compote every time. The recipe needs 5 ingredients, it’s ready in under 10 minutes, it works with fresh or frozen blueberries and it tastes delicious. Oh, did I say it looks beautiful and glossy too?

Few berries can give you so much instant gratification as blueberries! I love how easy they are to work with, how beautiful they look, the pop of colour they add, the rustic beauty they lend to desserts and how rewarding the end result is!

I also love how berries remind you of summer! Find more recipes on my Instagram feed.

Considered a superfood, various studies suggest that blueberries can benefit the body in many ways, including improving heart health, increasing bone strength, and lowering blood pressure. This tiny but ‘mighty’ berry is loaded with nutrients, a berry I use often now that’s it’s easily available at the local bazaar.

The pros are many. Fresh blueberries are quite hardy and keep well refrigerated for 5-7 days at least. They make for a beautiful garnish and taste really nice too both raw and cooked. They’re also easily available all year round now and thankfully aren’t very expensive. If you have a big batch of fresh bluebs on hand, wash them well, rinse and pat dry, then lay them on a tray and freeze them. Once frozen, just pop the lot into a Ziploc and you’ve got a supply of frozen blueberries!

There are a million desserts you can create with fresh and frozen blueberries, and a million ways you can use them in recipes. Salads, smoothies, sauces, over granola, in parfaits, as a compote, in cakes and cheesecakes, in muffins, on pancakes, blueberry frosting, even blueberry ganache … you name it, and you can sneak some bluebs in to make things more delicious!

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Perfect Blueberry Compote

How to make the Perfect Blueberry Compote in under 10 minutes! Makes 1 jar
Course Appetiser, Dessert, Drinks, Salad
Cuisine American
Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 8 minutes

Ingredients

Blueberry compote

  • 160 g blueberry fresh/ frozen
  • 50 g demerara sugar
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 3 tbsp water
  • Juice of 1/2 lime

Instructions

Blueberry compote

  • Stir everything together in a heavy bottom pan EXCEPT lime juice.
  • Simmer until the berries release colour and soften slightly, 3-4 minutes.
  • Remove the berries to a bowl. Continue to simmer the syrup for about 30 seconds until it’s thick and glossy. Keep a close eye because this happens quite quickly.
  • Take off the heat and pour the syrup back over the berries.
  • Add the lime juice, then stir gently and cool.

Eggless Mango Custard Pudding … simple desserts to fall in love with

Eggless Mango Custard Pudding … just 4 ingredients, creamy, gently wobbly and so refreshing, here’s another delightful eggless dessert perfect for summer when mangoes are aplenty! It also doubles up as a delicious breakfast too. Convinced yet?

We’ve had a few days of really great weather, rain, hail too and now the mercury is on the rise again. We hit 41C yesterday with the weather acting quite strange given the typical Indian summer. April-June are typically really hot months with an average of 45C, with an odd shower if lucky. Not so this year. 3 days of heat and then thunder, lightning, hailstorms letting the mercury plunge to 27-30C.

It’s got everyone really puzzled, the birds especially. Every year, at the peak of summer we’d see frenzied activity of nest building and egg laying. Hasn’t happened this year. The birds are all over the place but they are just not nesting. The flowering plants are acting up too. Disturbingly, we’ve had chrysanthemums, typically flowers from peak North India winter, blooming at 40C and ‘haar singaar‘ or night jasmine, a September-October flower, blooming in May! Quite thankfully, we also have a few mangoes growing as they should, now! A few figs as well …

For long, hot summer days like these, this pudding is like a dream, a spoonful of heaven. It’s light, it’s gentle, it’s refreshing and it’s so creamy even though there’s no cream in it! It’s an eggless dessert perfect for summer when mangoes are aplenty! I love the beautiful set, though you can set it in bowls as well if you don’t want the extra fuss.

If you haven’t made a set custard before, I’d advise you to cook the pudding until it’s quite thick if you are looking for a set pudding that you want to demold. It took me several attempts and recipe tweaks to get this right. It’s my first set pudding without a setting agent like gelatine or agar agar, and was a huge learning curve.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Mango Custard Pudding

Light, gentle, refreshing and so creamy even though there’s no cream in it!, this is dessert perfect for summer when mangoes are aplenty! I love the beautiful set, though you can set it in bowls as well if you don’t want the extra fuss.
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine British, Indian
Keyword cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, fruit, gluten free, homemade, mangoes, no bake, one bowl, pudding, simple, summer dessert, sweet, tropical, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Setting time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 30 minutes
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 spatula
  • 2 bowls to set

Ingredients

  • 240 g milk
  • 135 g fresh mango puree strained
  • 35 g sugar
  • 20 g cornstarch

Instructions

  • Whisk all the ingredients in a saucepan until smooth. Simmer whisking constantly until the mixture thickens well like a custard.
  • Simmer over low-medium heat whisking constantly until the mixture thickens well like a custard.
  • Whisk well to make smooth, then pour it into lightly greased molds.
  • Tap gently to let out any air bubbles and leave to set for 4-6 hours, overnight is best.

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So Delicious! 10 Eggless Spring Desserts almost too pretty to eat. Make them now…

So Delicious! 10 Eggless Spring Desserts almost too pretty to eat, so refreshing, so fun! That favourite time of the year where there’s new energy everywhere … new leaves, buds, shoots, nests being made, baby birds fluttering around; the world is literally born again!

Hello Spring! It’s only late February and this year Spring has arrived too early, the temperatures already hitting an astonishing 30C. It’s been the hottest February in decades yet somehow it’s a sign of the times with unpredictable weather. The mulberry tree is already showing fruit, and the festival of colour Holi is around the corner.

Staying in tune with the weather, here are some pretty and pretty refreshing desserts for this time of the year. They are eggless, they are simple and they have light, fresh appeal! These are charming, colourful desserts that find their way to our table over and over again. Hopefully they will keep you charmed too, make you happy!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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More FRUIT BASED recipes here

Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake
As delicious as it is pretty! Light buttery addictive eggless homemade lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.
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Eggless Baked Lime Curd White Chocolate Pudding
Light, dreamy, mousse like and bowl scraping good, here’s a baked eggless pudding that’ll have you hooked.
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Eggless Strawberry Love Cake
This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.
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Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream
Sweet dreams are made of these! Festive, simple and ever so delicious, these are literal cupcakes baked in demitasse cups. Perfect for anytime, especially now. 
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Eggless Strawberry Fraisier Dessert Box
The one bowl, simple eggless sponge flavoured with the zest of orange pairs with luscious, red strawberries to create a certain kind of magic. The flavours come together really beautifully and each spoon of the dessert is refreshing good!
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Eggless Lime Curd Trifles
When life gives you limes {or lemons}, you just have to make these! Also, the eggless lime curd is just amazing!
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Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake
A delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! It's now officially the season I love most where luscious strawberries paint the bazaar red, and the best oranges are here too. I'm back to making my favourite bake, a cake in my new tart tin, and I'm loving it. The cake is as simple as can be. A one bowl, part wholegrain eggless sponge to which I added orange zest. I loved the natural orange hue the cake took on. 
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Vegan Rose Coconut Pudding
A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer. With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Curd & Cream Trifles
When strawberries are in season, there's always room for dessert, especially desserts as fun as these!
Check out this recipe
Strawberry Matcha Cheesecake Tart
A really quick, simple, delicious dessert where the name literally takes longer to say than the time it takes to put the tart together
Check out this recipe

3 Ingredient Most Delicious Chocolate Pudding … old school comfort

3 Ingredient Chocolate Pudding… Rich, deeply delicious, satiny smooth and ever so easy, anyone can stir this up in a matter of minutes. Nothing can comfort the soul like a good indulgent old school chocolate pudding.

This eggless pudding ticks off all the boxes. It uses simple pantry ingredients, is gluten-free, has no added sugar, cooks quickly on the stove top and needs just a few hours to set, so is a great make ahead option too.

It’s also delicious served warm, so win win, you can enjoy it as a great winter pudding too. Do make sure to use a good quality couverture chocolate to enjoy the depth of this dessert.

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3 Ingredient Chocolate Pudding

Rich, deeply delicious, satiny smooth and ever so easy, anyone can stir this up in a matter of minutes. Nothing can comfort the soul like a good indulgent old school chocolate pudding.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, gluten free, no bake, nobake, one bowl, pudding, stovetop, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 15 minutes
Servings 3 people

Ingredients

  • 350 g low fat milk
  • 150 g 46% dark couverture chocolate chopped
  • 3 tbsp cornflour

Instructions

  • Whisk all the ingredients in a heavy bottom saucepan. Simmer, stirring constantly, until the pudding begins to thicken slightly like a custard. Take off the stove and whisk well. Let it cool for a short while, whisking on and off to prevent a skin from forming on the top. Pour into dessert glasses and refrigerate to set for 4-6 hours or overnight.
  • Dust the tops with cocoa powder and garnish with chocolate flakes, edible flowers etc.
  • Note: You can also whisk the milk and cornflour in a saucepan and simmer, stirring constantly, until it begins to thicken slightly. Take off heat and add in finely chopped chocolate. Stir until smooth.
  • Add ins: Instant coffee, cinnamon, orange zest, vanilla, garam masala, a dash of liqueur etc.

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Biscoff Banana Bread… if there’s one bread to bake now, this is it! #noeggs

Biscoff Banana Bread … eggless, wholewheat, one bowl, fuss free and just so delicious, you must bake this soon! It might not look very pretty and banana breads generally don’t, but the taste, OH MY! This is the most addictive one I’ve baked yet, and I’ve baked many!

Sunday usually begins with baking my favourite eggless banana bread, and this time I gave it a Lotus Biscoff twist. Played around with ingredients yesterday what with a half jar of smooth Biscoff spread staring at me, and came up with the most amazing banana bread with deep caramel flavours.

My Eggless Whole-wheat Biscoff Banana Bread is very, very indulgent. It’s also very moist and satisfying. The simplest recipe ever, one bowl and hand mixed, this is a great breakfast, tiffin or snack option. Use oil instead of clarified butter/ghee and make this vegan since Biscoff is a vegan plant based product.

Dare I also say dessert? Yes, that too! I love to reheat thick slices, 15-30 seconds in the microwave, and serve them with a drizzle of melted Biscoff or a scoop of good quality vanilla ice cream! Enjoy!

If you’re looking for more inspiration of the Biscoff type, and I don’t blame you for that, I’ve got you covered! You can find a whole selection of reels on my Instagram handle at Passionate About Baking. I absolutely love making desserts with this delicious and addictive Lotus Biscoff spread and can offer you a delicious Biscoff dessert recipe for each day of the week! They’re all eggless recipes too. How’s that?

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Whole-wheat Biscoff Banana Bread

Eggless, wholewheat, one bowl, fuss free and just so delicious, you must bake this soon. It might not look very pretty but OH MY! This is the most addictive one I've baked yet.
Makes 1 loaf (750g approx)
Course Appetiser, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, Biscoff, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, homemade, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 80 g clarified butter/ghee melted
  • 100 g smooth Biscoff spread melted
  • 165 g 2 medium ripe bananas mashed well
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 180 g whole wheat flour/aata
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips
  • To top
  • 3 broken up Biscoff biscuits & chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 8″x4″ loaf tin with baking parchment.
  • Add the ingredients to a large bowl and stir lightly to combine until just mixed.
  • Transfer to the prepared loaf tin and bake for 40-45 minutes/until the tester comes out clean, tenting the top after 14 minutes to stop it from overbrowning.

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Delicious Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake… literally a hug in a mug!

This delicious Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is literally a hug in a mug! Dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert, this addictive mug cake made with cooked chickpeas will win your heart. This is just deliciousness, love at first bite and so satisfying! ❣️

I make this mug cake for my son for his breakfast every morning and he loves it, looks forward to it every single day. That good! The Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is perfect for breakfast and also makes a wonderful dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily vegan using maple syrup or jaggery, it’s a very simple recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love.

Exploring versatile ways to include chickpeas/garbanzo in desserts has never been more fun, more satisfying. I created a couple of recipes while working with US pulses and it was a brilliant learning experience. Chickpeas or kabuli chana or chole as called locally in India, are more ften than never find there way into savoury dishes. Think pindi chana, think hummus, think chole masala, think chana jor garam, so much you can do with this humble legume. For me, the challenge was chickpeas in dessert, or rather cooked chickpeas in dessert.

Chickpea flour is a little easier to incorporate into desserts and I’ve used it a little. In nan khatais, a native Indian cookie I used to bake when young, or then this flourless vegan chocolate chickpea cake. The cake turned out surprisingly delicious, quite unexpected because that was the the first time I experimented with using chickpea flour in a cake. That recipe can be found in my cookbook.

If the Dark Chocolate Vegan Chickpea Pudding I posted on Instagram a few days ago was good, this Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is as delicious! It’s interesting how easily you can up the protein and fibre to your diet by using humble chickpeas innovatively.

For this mug cake, I cook about a cup of chickpeas until soft and store covered by the the aqua faba/chickpea liquid in a covered steel bowl/glass container in the fridge. I strain the amount of chickpeas I need out every morning, heat the measured amount in the microwave for 30 seconds, add the remaining ingredients and quickly blend. It’s a quick and easy breakfast or fuss free dessert for that matter!

I also play around with the ingredients now that I make the Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake so often. Sometimes I increase the chickpeas by 15g per portion, use a different nut butter, or use a little more nut butter, use honey, or a combination of honey and jaggery powder, or then only jaggery powder. On one instance, I added a tbsp of cocoa powder too but found we preferred the original flavour. Oh I also added a tbsp of Biscoff cookie spread over the freshly baked chickpea mug cake one time. It melted over beautifully and tasted like heaven, still keeping the mug cake vegan since Biscoff is vegan!

Protip: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas to get the most amazing cinnamon undertones in the mug cake. Keep the salt to a minimum.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

This is a perfect breakfast and dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily made vegan by using maple syrup, it’s a recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love. Makes two mug cakes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, gluten free, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 36 minutes
Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
  • 150 g cooked chickpeas warm
  • 35 g whole rolled oats
  • 75 g peanut butter
  • 75 g maple syrup or honey for non vegan
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 40 g coconut milk
  • 50 g chocolate chips

Topping

  • Chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Place all the ingredients except the chocolate chips in a blender and process until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  • Divide the batter between two 250ml mugs, top with chocolate chips and bake for 25-30 minutes until a tester comes out clean.
  • Tent the top with a sheet of foil after 15 minutes to prevent the top from overbrowning.

Note: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas for a deep cinnamon flavour

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    1. What if I don’t have maple syrup?

      To keep it vegan, you can use an equal weight of jaggery powder, brown sugar or coconut sugar. Alternatively, you can use honey

    2. What can I use instead of coconut milk?

      You can use an plant based milk or even a low fat cream if you like.

    3. Can I use quick cooking oats instead of rolled oats?

      Of course. Use quick cooking oats of the same weight if you like.

    4. Can we have add ins?

      Add in chopped nuts, raisins, cocoa nibs etc.

    5. What if I don’t have peanut butter?

      Use any nut butter of choice.

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