Dates whole wheat and oats cupcakes

Deseed chop and grind the dates in batches and soak it in warm milk. Let it sit for 30 mins.

Mix the oil and vanilla essence to the ground dates in milk and give it a good mix

Mix all the dry ingredients in another wide bowl (oats, whole wheat flour, powdered jaggery, baking powder and soda).

Fold in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Do not overmix. The batter should be thick.

Line the muffin tray and pour in the cake batter and top with cut nuts and bake on a preheated oven at 180 c for 15 min check if tooth pick comes out fine else bake for 5 more minutes.

Once the cakes are done and cooled pipe melted dark chocolate and give a frosting

And top it with a cherry to make it more attractive for the kids