Oven Hot: Mini Irish Soda Bread

With presentations and research today, I've been completely "STRESSED OUT". What do I do when I'm stressed out? 

I bake. 

As I was searching the world wide web for easy and "idiot-proof" cupcake recipes for the upcoming wedding, I stumbled across this, "Mini Irish Soda Bread"

The recipe looked so simple and so quick! I couldn't resist, just had to try it. Also, This recipe's relatively health, no eggs, no sugar, no butter, no oil. This recipe calls for buttermilk which is quite low in fats, since buttermilk is the leftover milk from the production of butter. However, living in this part of Asian, buttermilk is hard to come by, and relatively EXPENSIVE. It's about RM17 for 500ml. I replaced the buttermilk with cream+milk, and it still turned out pretty good. So no complains here.

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Makes 8-10 (depends on size)

Dry Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 tsp baking soda

Wet Ingredients

• 1 1/4 buttermilk (I used 1cup cream + 1/4 milk)
• 1 tbsp honey

1 cup of your choice of dry fruits and nuts (apricot, raisins, walnuts etc)

1. Preheat the oven to 175C.

2. Mix dry ingredients together. 

3. Mix the honey into the buttermilk, for easier mixing in the next step.

4. Mix dry and wet ingredient together quickly with a spatula or your hands. Then mix in dry fruits and nuts.

5. Form generous size balls, and cut a little "x" on the top with a sharp knife. Bake in oven for 12minutes on lined baking tray.

6. Cool and serve! 

Original recipe taken from www.bakingbites.com