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.

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!

Thermomix Chocolate Mini Egg Fudge

Last Saturday I had a table at a local craft fair. I made some Chocolate Mini Egg
Fudge. I used the same recipe as the one for Jelly Bean Fudge but I used plain chocolate instead of white. It only took 28 minutes to cook in the Thermomix and set to a good fudge consistency.
I also made some Vanilla Jelly Bean and some Mars Bar and Malteser Fudge. I sold 17 out of 28 bags!

Chocolate Cake from the Thermomix Basic Recipe Book

Our daughter is returning home later this evening from a few days' holiday in Scotland so I decided to make her the Chocolate Cake from the Basic Cookery Book.
First you whisk 6 Egg Whites at speed 3.5 with the Whisk attached to the Blades.

You remove the Whisked Egg Whites to a bowl and add the Egg Yolks, Butter, Flour and Sugar which are gently cooked for a few minutes.

Next in is 250g of Plain Chocolate in small pieces which you leave to soften in the heated mixture for a few seconds before mixing it at speed 5.

You then put the Egg Whites back in the Mixing Bowl and blend them in with the Whisk Attachment.

Above is the Cake in the Oven and below the cooked Cake.
Needless to say there is only half left for when the dd comes home. we could not wait to try it out.

Double Chocolate Banana Fudge Loaf

I am always glad to find recipes for using up Bananas that are too ripe to eat but not ready to be thrown out. I came across this recipe on the Bake,Play,Smile Blog HERE.
It is exactly what it says and more. The chopped Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate helped a lot!

You just have to be careful not to overcook it. All the family loved it.

Thermomix Recipes

I thought that I would give you a random selection of some of the food that I have been cooking in the Thermomix in the last few days so that you can see the variety of dishes that you can cook with it.
above are Chicken Enchiladas from the Everyday Cooking for Thermomix Families Cook Book.
This Recipe got a Wow from my 21 year old daughter who is not a Thermomix fan. She asked for it once a week from now on!

I made some Lemom Crumble Bars to take to our Team  meeting on Monday. I got the recipe from Bakeplaysmile. The Team loved them and so did the family. The top and base are like a Flapjack Mixture and the centre is like a Lemon Cheesecake. 

If you google Thermomix Easy Chocolate Cake then you will probably get the Recipe for the above Cake and the Icing. It really is easy and tastes delicious.

The Carrot Cake Recipe is in the Welcome Collection which is free when you sign up for the Recipe Platform. You cut the Carrots into chunks, weigh all of the other ingredients into the Mixing bowl, mix for 5 seconds and just pour the mixture into the tin to bake it. how easy is that?

In my weekly shop I bought some Buttermilk as I knew that I wanted to try out the Buttermilk Scones in the Everyday Cooking for Thermomix Families Book (which has a Chip to go with it.)
They were tasty but I think that I prefer the texture of the Demo Cheese Scones or Plain Scones from the Recipe Forum. The great thing about making Scones in the Thermomix is that you don't touch the mixture until you flatten it to cut the Scones out. They are incredibly quick to make and taste light and delicious.

Chocolate Cup Cakes

Lots of step by step photos today.
The recipe came from the Everyday Cooking for Thermomix Families Australian Cook Book (worth £28) which is available as an exclusive offer to customers buying a Thermomix before July 22nd this month in addition to the Basic Cook Book and Chip which come with the Machine (value £80)

I melted 250g dark Chocolate and 200g Butter in a Saucepan.(Saves time as you can do this while mixing the other ingredients but adds to the washing up.)
 

I whisked up the other ingredients with the Whisk Attachment. I added the melted chocolate and Butter through the opening in the Mixing Bowl Lid with the blades running.

I then poured it straight into the Cup Cake Cases. Look at how smooth and well mixed that Batter is.

Here are the Cup Cakes in the Oven.

Now cooked and cooling down ready to ice.

I used a Mary Berry Recipe for the Icing and whisked it with the Whisk attachment for a few minutes.

Here are the finished Cup Cakes ready to eat. They should have been called Cup Cake Brownies as all of that Chocolate and Butter gave them a soft brownie like texture.

Easy Chocolate Cake

I googled Thermomix Easy Chocolate Cake and this is what I came up with from the Recipe Forum.
Place all of the ingredients in the Thermomix bowl and mix for 30 seconds/ speed 4.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl, and repeat.
Pour Batter in to a greased and lined 20cm cake tin and bake at 180c for about 45 - 50 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean.

The Batter in the tin ready to be baked.

 Now for the Chocolate Icing. I used half of a Humming Bird Recipe and  mixed all of the ingredients for 15 seconds/ speed 4. You can then add the Butterfly Whisk and mix for 20 seconds/ speed 4 to get a lighter icing.
I cut the cake in half horizontally to make a sandwich cake.

The half eaten cake 2 hours later. Cakes do not last long in our house!

Chocolate Mousse

I decided to use the Basic Cooking Chip today for guided cooking to make some Chocolate Mousse.
This is what the Touch screen looks like for Guided Cooking. It shows you each step. At any time you can quit and continue with Manual Cooking.
I love the way that you do everything in one bowl. Even weighing so there is less washing up.

Here we are grinding the sugar on speed 10 for a few seconds.

Next up is melting the Dark Chocolate and Cream after you have weighed it into the Mixing Bowl. You can choose Metric or Imperial Measurements much to my husband's delight.

This is the yummy mixure that materialised from the machine! It is set aside in a bowl while you clean out the Mixing Bowl and dry it meticulously ready for whipping the Egg Whites.

There is a very good Butterfly Whisk for whipping Egg Whites, Cream, Fruit Sorbet etc. This is attached on top of the Metal Blades and must not be used above Speed 4.
The Whisked Egg Whites are folded into the Chocolate Mixture.

Here is the completed Chocolate Mousse ready to set in the fridge for pudding later on.