Charlie’s thin pizza base

Charlie's thin pizza base
Charlie’s thin pizza base

The guided pizza dough recipe is great but if you prefer a lighter thin pizza base, Charlie’s thin pizza base from the recipe community  is perfect. It is as simple to make as the guided recipe and even shorter proving time.  And it’s as light as pita bread. Miss 14 topped with standard ham cheese and pineapple. (Chop cheese at speed 8 until sound changes, check consistency through lid)

Moist Banana Cake

Banana cake
Banana cake

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/moist-banana-cake/71801

Mmmm yum banana cake. This recipe from the recipe community was so close to our family recipe except for the use of self raising flour instead of flour and baking powder, we had to give it a go. 85 positive comments,  and it turns out lovely and moist just as everyone says. I might substitute flour and baking powder and leave bananas in when mixing, as suggested by a few members, next time but very happy with this cake as is. Sometimes our cake would fall in the middle but this one stays nice and high. Maybe because it’s cooked at 160C instead of 180C for an hour.

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.

Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls

Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls
Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-savoury-recipes/chicken-and-vegetable-sausage-rolls/139332

Yah!! Found another good lunchbox item again from ‘road to loving my thermomix’. This recipe for chicken and vegetable sausage rolls (link above) is fantastic. No sausage, no preservatives, no additives … Just 400g chicken, some leek, a carrot, one celery stalk  and a tablespoon of TM vegetable stock.  ( left out spinach today) Added an egg and a handful of cheese, some salt and pepper to the mix. Rolled into puff party and they’re delicious, light and tasty. Halved the pastry and placed sausage mixture in a line in middle before wrapping sides around the chicken mixture.  After 30 minutes at 190C they weren’t very brown so grilled for a minute. If  freezing to reheat later, they would be perfect because the second bake would brown the top more.

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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.

Hummus and crackers

Hummus and crackers
Hummus and crackers

It doesn’t get easier than this, guided recipe for hummus, I substituted peanut butter for tahini today,  too lazy to make a batch. A tin of chick peas some lemon juice, tsp cumin, salt and pepper and that’s kids afternoon tea done.

Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic
Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

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

Made these pizza pops again to freeze for school lunches.  This time flavoured the pizza dough with rosemary and garlic. Just throw a handful of fresh rosemary and two garlic cloves into the TM bowl before following the guided pizza dough recipe.  Chop rosemary and garlic at speed 7 until finely chopped. Then follow the guided recipe for pizza dough  from there, no need to set aside the rosemary and garlic.

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