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Sticky Toffee Pudding

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Sticky toffee pudding is a British classic and this recipe is everything a pudding should be. Sweet, sticky, dense but not too heavy.

I had this recipe for a long time before I even tried it as my kids are chocolate monsters are fear trying anything new. Thank goodness for playdates and other peoples kids visiting, as when Ella mentioned that her favourite dessert was sticky toffee pudding I just had to make it for her. Thank goodness for well-rounded kids who venture beyond chocolate and marshmallows. Ella absolutely loved this version and to my delight, said they were even better than the “Marks and Spencer version her mum buys”. So they pass they kid taste test too.

Credit: This recipe is in British Isles on a Plate cookbook produced by Thermomix UK and also available on Cookidoo Platform. Link to this Sticky Toffee Pudding  Cookidoo recipe for guided cooking is here. If you are a VIP One Girl Customer, you can also purchase a discounted version on my VIP Shop.

Thermomix Jalebi

Jalebi

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Jalebi an Indian sweet made of a coil of batter fried and steeped in syrup.

We never made this at home, probably because my mother is a doctor and this really dessert/ snack is fried in oil and sweet covered with more sweetness.  But on trips back to Chandigarh, I can always remember heading to the street vendors in Sector 23 to eat this hot, delicious snack or dessert with my father. It brings back memories of my childhood going home and visiting my family in Punjab.

It’s best eaten just freshly made when the jalebi is cooked but soft and still warm with the syrup oozing when you bite it.

Hummingbird Bakery Banana Bread

Hummingbird Bakery Banana Bread

4 Comments / Baking (Sweet), Breads, Eggs, Snacks

Whilst I adore and have most Thermomix recipe books, there are some recipes such as the Hummingbird Banana Bread one that I come back to time after time. I love it. What I love more is my Thermomix version. Instead of multiple steps, it’s one step. So even though it’s easy peasy, I thought I would blog this as sometimes I realise not everyone has the confidence to be converting recipes for their Thermomix. 

 

Fat Thursday

Pączki

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For those who know me, I am Indian, unapologetically so. But now and then, I try and inject a little Polish culture into my kids to teach them their father’s (my husband’s) heritage too. 

In some Catholic countries they celebrate the last day before the fasting season of Lent begins as Shrove Tuesday. Poland has its own version of the French Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), known locally as Tłusty Czwartek, or Fat Thursday. With Lent forbidding sweets and treats, Fat Thursday is a similar celebration of gluttonous indulgence as in other countries,  Poles queue up in lines that sometimes stretch around the corner in order to purchase pastries from the local cukiernia, or bakery.

Poland’s favourite pastries, particularly on Fat Thursday, are pączki – large deep-fried doughnuts typically filled with rose jam (or other marmalades), glazed with sugar, and sometimes topped with candied orange peel.

Well, there’s no need to queue of course when you have a Thermomix.

Thermomix Molten Chocolate

Chocolate Pot

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I’m a chocoholic. I don’t apologise for it. I have a slightly sweet tooth which can be seen on my hips but I make no apologies. They were good for child-bearing and I have two beautiful children as proof. One of my all-time weaknesses at restaurants is a molten chocolate pot and I eat them pretty much any time I’m at a restaurant. There are a few restaurants that truly get them right; they are either to baked, too sweet, too cold, too chocolatey. Something just isn’t write.

So after much research and recipe tasting, I’m pleased to say this one is reliable and very impressive for a quick chocolate pot which is gluey and warm, especially good for Autumn. 

Thermomix Christmas food

Panettone

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Another Christmas recipe. Christmas is a time when my Thermomix goes into overdrive. There’s so much cooking, baking, and eating during the holidays, having a Thermomix which saves time is a real-time saver in my household. It’s one of the reasons I have 2 Thermomixes not just one, but that’s another story.

This fruited bread is an Italian Christmas specialty. Making it yourself is very easy with your Thermomix and will cost you a fraction of the price of a bought panettone, and it will taste fresh and delicious. Lovely as a gift. Leftovers make a wonderful bread and butter pudding. 

Thermomix Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

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I often get asked for the most common cake I bake in my Thermomix and hands down, its the Carrot Cake recipe. I try and justify that baking with carrots ticks off one of our 5-a-day, but I think I’m only secretly kidding myself. The reason I think a Thermomix version has to be included in any Thermomix blog is because of how easy it is to make.

I do a lot of charity work in my borough of Tower Hamlets and a few summers ago, we did some cooking classes for local children in the area. The workshops were over 6 weeks where we made easy snacks that children could make showing them how home cooked food had more nutritional value than fast food, sugar-loaded snacks. One week, we made carrot cake the traditional way – weighing, measuring, peeling, grating, mixing, more weighing, more mixing…it went on and on. My team and I were dumbfounded by the how long this recipe took making it by hand. My team are so used to Thermomix method  that we had simply forgotten how time consuming anything else is. For those who want the easy, quick way without compromising taste, here it is.

Thermomix Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Cake

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It’s Saturday night and my darling daughter has been unwell for a few days. She hasn’t eaten much and has requested cake. She’s gone to bed early. As a mother, I’m concerned and thought I’d surprise her in the morning with cake. Eggs, flour and sugar…at least she’ll eat something right?

Luckily, my Thermie to the rescue and so easy to make cupcakes without any thinking. Thanks to my lovely friend and former Thermomix Advisor, Kerry New, for the converted cake recipe from WI Australia. It’s so easy to convert your favourites into a Thermomix way and this one is my all time favourite. The plain vanilla version is gorgeous, but add a couple of teaspoons of coffee liqueur, its a coffee cake; the rind of a lemon or orange, it becomes an lemon or orange cake.

Edit: Yasmin is now 9 years old and the cake is still her favourite. Used for every birthday cake in the past 10 years. This cake is a real winner with all kids.