Super Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Cookies are super quick in the Thermomix.
First chop up pieces of chocolate, speed 7 for 5 seconds and set aside.
Then weigh in Butter, Sugar, Self Raising Flour, Condensed Milk and mix for 20 seconds at speed 4.
Add the chocolate chips and mix on reverse speed 3 for 10 seconds.
Form into small balls and place on a greased baking sheet before putting in the oven to bake.

Here they are half cooked in the oven.

Cooled and in the tin ready for eating. They don't last long in our house.

Dani Valent's Plum Syrup Cake

Last week I tried Dani Valent's recipe for plum syrup pudding. I followed her You Tube Video HERE
I was very pleased with the results.

First I made the plum sauce. I chopped the plums with sugar and then cooked them for 5 minutes in the thermie. I then blitzed it at high speed to make the sauce which is then set aside.

Next I made the cake.
I weighed in the nuts and ground them in a few seconds.

I then added the eggs, butter etc and mixed them at speed 5.

It made a lovely smooth batter.

 I placed a quarter of a cup of plum syrup on the top and swirled it in before adding the sliced plums.

Chocolate Guiness Cake

I have been wanting to make a Chocolate Guiness Cake for a while. After I melted the Guiness and Butter I added the Cocoa,Sugar, Sour Cream, Eggs and Vanilla and mixed them in. I then added the Flour and Bicarb of Soda.

I then poured the Cake Batter in to the 24cm round cake tin and baked it for 1 hour 10 minutes.

It had a delicious Chocolate Ganache topping made with Plain Chocolate and Double Cream.

 This is what a slice looked like!

Pitta Bread

I like to challenge myself to try out new recipes with the Thermomix so today I decided to make Pitta Bread. The Thermomix Baking Blogger version included Nigella Seeds but as I did not have those I decided to use Poppy Seeds instead.
I activated the Yeast, added the other ingredients, kneaded the dough for 2 minutes and then left it to rise for half an hour. All in the Thermomix.

 I then rolled it out into oval shapes and put it in the oven for 10 minutes at 230c.

It puffed up nicely. I then put them on a cooling rack with a tea towel on top so that they would not dry out. We are going to eat these with home made Cream of Tomato Soup which I made yesterday in the Thermie!

Chelsea Buns

I found an amazing recipe for Chelsea Buns in Thermomix Baking Blogger's ebook called Home Baked. The Dough has a lot of butter in it but I rolled it out after it had doubled in size.

I added cinnamon sugar to one third of it as my youngest son said that he did not like raisins and currants.You roll the dough up to make a long sausage shape and cut it into 12 or 13 pieces.

You cover them with a clean tea towel for half an hour and then bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
I then made a white icing and poured it over the Buns while they were still warm.
Best eaten on the day that they are made.

Five Seed Bread

I made Five Seed Bread from the Basic Cook Book this morning. It is a recipe from the Basic Cook Book that comes with the Thermomix. It is wet and sticky as you can see,
The quantity is too much for a 2lb tin so it is best to split it between a 2lb and a 1lb tin or get a 3lb tin!

 You only let it rise once before baking it.
The loaf is flat on top but it has a delicious crust and a moist crumb. You feel very healthy when you are eating it!

Here is some sliced to whet your appetite.

Thermomix Mince Pies

I got around to making Mincemeat, using my Father in Law's recipe, at the beginning of December.
The Thermomix made it all a lot easier as it finely chopped the Cooking Apples in seconds.

It was done and dusted in minutes and put in Kilner Jars to mature for at least a week.

I used the Pastry Recipe given in the Basic Cook Book for an Apple Pie. It was made in seconds and I did not even chill it in the fridge.

My husband was delighted as he loves these Mince Pies. That was all the affirmation that I needed.
I have made several batches since and might keep one of the three Jars of mincemeat until next year!

Plum and Apple Pudding with Salted Caramel Sauce.

On Monday we had our Team Meeting in Conwy and Frances cooked a delicious Vegetable Biryani from the new Thermomix Indian Cook Book. I took along a Plum and Apple Dessert. I got the recipe from BBC Food and adapted it to the Thermomix.
first I choped the Root Ginger and Pecans.

Then I ground the Demerara Sugar in 2 seconds at speed 10 to make Brown Caster Sugar.
I chopped the Apple and Plums in seconds and then mixed the cake mixture which included Cinnamon (Ground from Cinnamon Sticks in the Thermomix - tastes much better!) and Nutmeg.

Above is the baked Pudding. Below is the Salted Caramel Sauce that I made to go with it!
This was made in 7 minutes in the Thermomix! The only problem was that I forgot to take it with me to the Team Meeting.

Thermomix Jamaican Gingerbread

At last I made some Jamaican Gingerbread in my Thermomix. I found the Recipe HERE on the Passionate Pantry Blog.

First you sift the dry ingredients in the Thermomix for 10 seconds at speed 4 and put them in a bowl.

Then you chop the Ginger Root.

 I used Black Treacle instead of Molasses and it was fine.
 I weighed and melted the Sugar, Black Treacle, Golden Syrup and Butter.

I then added a few more ingredients including Sour Cream, Eggs and Orange Zest and mixed those in.

You then add the dry ingredients that you sited earlier.

And here is the finished cake. It was moist and yummy. I gave it to the ladies who came to my Craft Day and they seemed to enjoy it with a little bit of Butter!

Thermomix Victoria Sponge.

After making the Apple Parkin (See previous post) I made the Victoria Sponge from the British Isles on a Plate Cook Book. First you cream the Butter and Sugar.

See how nicely creamed everything is.

 Then you add the Whisk Attachment on to the Blades and add Eggs, Self Raising Flour , Baking Powder, Bicarb Soda and Vanilla Extract.

This is what it turns out like. Lots of air whisked into this mixture.

You divide it between 2 eight inch Sandwich Tins and bake it at 170c for about 25 minutes.

Above are the two parts of the Cake when they had just come out of the oven.
Below is the Cake with Jam and a sprinkling of Icing Sugar.
I am sure that you could adapt this recipe to make chocolate, lemon,orange,coffee cake.

Apple Parkin

Tonight I decided to try out the Appe Parkin from the British Isles on a Plate Thermomix Cook Book.
First you quarter 450g Bramley Apples and chop them in seconds.

Then you cook them to create a yummy looking Apple Sauce.
To this you then add Butter,Treacle, Golden Syrup, Mixed Spice, Self Raising Flour, Medium Oatmeal,Brown Sugar, Bicarb Soda. An Egg, Milk.

After mixing it again it is ready to pour into the tin and put in the oven.

Just over an hour later the Parkin was ready to take out of the oven. The book advises leaving it for a day or two for the flavours to develop but I don't think that it will last that long in our house.