Homemade burger buns and white bread loaf

Burger buns and white bread loaf
Burger buns and white bread loaf

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/white-bread-rolls-thermomumma/282033

http://thermomumma.com/category/recipes/bread/

Homemade burgers and bread loaf. Used the recipe above from thermomumma’s blog but used  half for burger buns and half for loaf tin.  Friday night takeaway food at home. What makes them special tonight is Chelsea Winter’s secret sauce made from gherkins, mayonnaise, mustard.

Burgers
Burgers

Sliced the bread loaf for the freezer. Turned out great.

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Sliced loaf

Nutella scrolls

Nutella scrolls
Nutella scrolls

Used Annabel Langbein’s sticky bun recipe from her website. ( link below) for these nutella scrolls. Definately a treat, nutella and  sugar and cinnamon. Ran out of milk and used 1/2 coconut milk, still worked great.

http://www.annabel-langbein.com/recipes/sticky-buns/405/

Sticky Buns Adapted for thermomix:- ( dough fills two large cake tins)

  • Add 125g butter and 490g milk to TM bowl. Heat 2.5 minutes, 50C, speed 2. Until butter melted.
  • Add one a sachet of dried yeast and 100g sugar. Heat 2 mins, 37C , speed 1.5. Leave 10 minutes, till yeast appears frothy.
  • Add 846g (6cups) flour, tsp salt. mix 6 sec on speed 5 first then, Knead 3.5 minutes dough mode.
  • Place dough in a large pot, I place pot in warm water for around 1 hour till dough has doubled in size.
  • Halve dough, place one in fridge/freezer for use another day. Follow instructions in recipe link above for rolling out, filling and second prove.

30 Second Whole Orange Cake

Mandarin  and poppyseed muffins
Mandarin and poppyseed muffins

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/30-second-whole-orange-cake/45622?page=3

30 seconds to make a cake, or in this case muffins. The famous 30 second orange cake from the recipe community is made from one whole orange, peel included, and literally takes 30 seconds to make in the thermomix. We used 3 whole mandarins and made muffins instead. Baked in 15 minutes at 180c fan bake. Awesome recipe, can see why it had 300 + glowing comments. Followed some of members’ suggestions and reduced sugar from 200g to 130g and butter from 225g to 200g. Added 2 TB poppyseeds. Fantastic recipe, crunchy top moist centre and lovely flavour.

Nb best eaten fresh or on the day otherwise freeze to retain softness.

Sticky Date Pudding

Sticky Date Pudding
Sticky Date Pudding

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/desserts-sweets-recipes/slightly-healthier-clone-easy-sticky-date-pudding-less-sugar-less-fat-and-no

Just made these sticky date puddings (see recipe link above) in muffin trays for our dessert but I can’t wait till dessert, I’m eating one right now. It’s only 10am in the morning here in NZ and with that warm butterscotch smell wafting through the house it’s too hard to resist, feel like Nigella sneaking into the fridge at midnight eating the ” bad stuff “. But it’s really really good! And it only took a couple minutes to whip them up. There are quite a few clones of this recipe from the community with slightly different variations in the amount of butter and sugar. This recipe  has the least amount of sugar and butter and it still tastes luscious and decadent and more than sweet enough for our taste. Altered the sauce to use cream instead of milk to get a richer thicker sauce. It is amazing. Yum !!

See the link below for the other more decadent puddings, there’s also a guided recipe from the basic cookbook but decided to use one from the community because it was quicker, had less sugar and didn’t require the butterfly whisk. Maybe try the guided recipe if we’re having guests over.

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/desserts-sweets-recipes/easy-sticky-date-pudding/40958

Finger buns/ Sweet buns

Finger buns
Finger buns/sweet buns

https://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/sweet-bun-dough-thermomumma/x741ie2j-2d4f5-254760-cfcd2-p7734kaj

Just made these finger buns today, O….mi…gosh, another recipe from the expert bread maker ThermomummaLailahRose who has published her recipes on her blog thermomumma.com.   She posted the jumbo white bread( we used for burger buns) , jumbo wholemeal bread, jumbo fruit loaf (used for fruit bun/loaf )  and this absolutely amazing sweet bun dough which can be used for finger buns or scrolls. Awwww I’m giving them away before we eat the lot. They’re as good as the Bakers Delight buns if not better and freshly homemade. And maybe better than our favourite scrolls using Annabel Langbein’s sticky bun recipe.  Bread heavan here today! Baked for 10-15 mins at 190C, ( NB trial and error , fan forced too hot for our oven for these buns and buns were too brown and less fluffy  )  then iced with her icing recipe on the link above. Oooooooh they’re so  good, like eating fluffy pink clouds!!! Going to do cost comparison and post tonight because can’t resist checking out the numbers. Notes for next time: could glaze before baking rather than ice to reduce sugar content and at second prove check at 45 mins, at just over hour looked like they might overprove some were starting to fall.

( if using fanbake , check buns at 8-10mins )

Pizza Pops

Pizza pops
Pizza pops

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/pizza-pops/139424

Recipe from road to loving my Thermomix’s blog. Great recipe, neat new way to use the pizza dough recipe from Basic cookbook. Filled with bacon cheese and herbs. Next time try to fill a bit more , maybe 2 teaspoons of mixture and use more spinach. The kids will love this as an alternative lunchbox item. Figured out it’s better to make double the pizza dough and refrigerate half for use another day. Can be made into bread rolls, grissini sticks, or even more pizza for snacks and lunchboxes.

Inside a pizza pop
Inside a pizza pop

Apple and blueberry pancakes

Apple and blueberry pancakes
Apple and blueberry pancakes

Our new favourite pancakes, it’s a Jamie Oliver recipe someone has adapted on the recipe community. We use the whole apple, skin and seeds.  Reprinting recipe below so it’s easier to follow : Apple and Blueberry pancakes 

  • 1 whole apple, quartered (leave skin on)
  • 200 g SR Flour White or Wholemeal, or buckwheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon ground
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • 250 g milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 heaped tablespoon honey
  • 100 g blueberries, fresh or frozen
  1. Place apple into TM Bowl for 2 secs on speed 6, scrape down sides of bowl.
  2. Add remaining ingredients (except blueberries) & mix for 5 secs on speed 5.
  3. Add blueberries & mix for 1 sec on reverse speed 3.
  4. Cook in a medium heat in fry pan with a little butter, until golden and springy to the touch. Serve with your favourite fruit and syrup & some homemade yoghurt.

TIPS Based on 2 Jamie Oliver Recipes.Mill your cinnamon & nutmeg fresh for an even more delicious result. Gluten free option mill almonds & buckwheat to use in place of flour.

Fruit loaf

Raisin buns and raisin loaf
Raisin buns and raisin loaf

http://thermomumma.com/jumbo-fruit-loaf-rolls/

Made this Jumbo fruit loaf today to give to my father who loves raisin bread, this time with raisins instead of sultanas and it’s perfect. Made rolls instead of a second loaf and they’re amazing, so soft. Couldn’t find instant dried yeast in the supermarket so had to use active dried yeast. The only difference is you have to allow the yeast to activate in the liquid and sugar first( 2 mins, 40c, speed 3)it should foam on top when it’s activated, then add all the other ingredients and carry on with the recipe.

Chocolate Brownie

Chocolate Brownie
Chocolate Brownie

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/chocolate-brownies/38693

Tried another popular brownie from the recipe community. Our favourite thermonix recipe  so far has been the masterchef extreme chocolate brownie. This recipe makes a slightly smaller brownie but is still good. I reduced sugar from 350 g to 140 g as per some suggestions in the comments. Lovely brownie, not as rich as the masterchef brownie but a nice lunchbox/afternoon tea  treat for the kids. Try cook for 20- 30 minutes next time, to retain more moistness.

Masterchef extreme chocolate brownie 

Fruit Loaf

Fruit loaf
Fruit loaf

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/jumbo-900g-fruit-loaf-rolls/237914

Made this fruit loaf ( link above )  by the same recipe creator for the burger buns ( Jumbo White bread ).  It had to be good because her bread recipes are reliable and it is! Ooooh it’s actually too good so we have sliced the bread into breakfast portions, given some away and stored the rest  straight into the freezer so we don’t eat it all at once. Even left out and eaten the next day it retained it’s freshness.  Doesn’t need toasting it’s so delicious with just a spread of butter. Note for next time:-  use raisins instead of sultanas.

Raisin bread
Raisin bread