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Homemade Chocolate Bars

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Homemade chocolate bars are fun, you can make them whatever size you like, and can pack them with whatever chunks, spices, nuts, seeds, and goodies you have. The possibilities are endless. Make a bunch, wrap them in gold foil candy paper, or parchment, and place in a drawer – you’re set for the month. Everyone seems to have a slightly different technique, but generally, I simply start with the best dark chocolate possible, then add as many extras as the chocolate can hold. To shape your bars You can just slather the mixture across a parchment-lined baking sheet, or allow it to set in a mold (or ice cube tray) of your choice.

The beauty in the recipe is the simplicity. A Thermomix tempers the chocolate callets so precisely that the quality of chocolate you use is key – I only use Callebaut Chocolate callets which is the finest Belgian chocolate and then toppings can be as elaborate as you want. For Christmas rose petals or pistachios give it a little luxury; for everyday eating for the kids, I use sprinkles and M&Ms. I know the last ingredient goes against my quality and best the best comment, but I’m keeping it real. My kids love M&M, Smarties, sprinkles and everything & anything that is sugar loaded. I take comfort in the fact the 80:20 rule, most of those they are eating is good.

This beautiful recipe is re-blogged from I love Chocolate, I love Thermomix by Janie Turner. Janie was the distributor of Thermomix UK when I started so is a friend and mentor of mine. After selling the business back to Vorwerk in 2014, set up Cook with Janie. Do check out her website and blog. It’s truly amazing as the lady herself.

Homemade Baileys

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Homemade Baileys Irish Cream recipe is a deliciously creamy and chocolatey homemade alcoholic drink. Make it in less than 5 minutes in your Thermomix and with just 6 basic ingredients.

It’s perfect homemade gift for family and friends. In fact, it’s such a perfect recipe that for the last few years I have made bottles and gifted them to my children’s teachers with a love note: “My child is probably the reason you drink, so enjoy this homemade Baileys on us”. You need a teacher with a sense of humour to appreciate it.

The beauty of this recipe is how simple it is. In just a couple of minutes you’ll be sipping this super yummy drink and wonder why I only drink this at Christmas time; surely it should be all year round.

Homemade yoghurt

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There are a million different ways to make homemade yoghurt. You can order a starter or use a commercial yogurt as your starter. You can use a dehydrator, heating pad, crockpot, yoghurt maker, or oven to act as your incubator. However, this Thermomix recipe will knock your socks off every single time producing the most delicious yogurt.

There are a number of reasons why making your own yogurt is great, but I’ll give my top three reasons.

Homemade yogurt is about half the price of buying plain yogurt at the supermarket. You can do the math yourself. Milk is the main ingredient in yoghurt, so see how much it costs for a tub of yoghurt versus a pint or litre milk where you shop.
You have more control over homemade yoghurt. You can choose what type and brand of milk you start with, which yoghurt cultures or store-bought yoghurt to use as a starter, and you don’t need to put in any additives. No sugar. No nasties.
It’s good for the environment. There is no more need to buy so many little plastic cups of yoghurt.

Credit: This recipe has been slightly adapted from the Indian Cookbook which I sell in the online shop.

Carrot Halwa (Gajrela)

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I’m sharing one of my family favourites – carrot halwa, otherwise known as gajrela. This sticky Indian dessert is perfect for those with a sweet tooth and a very simple recipe to make in the Thermomix and one I’m delighted to share with you.

Eaten at any time of the year, but especially on Diwali we make this at home. Diwali is a golden opportunity to crack out a few regional specialities from around the subcontinent – syrup-soaked mung beans, Rajasthani cream fritters, rice flour doughnuts and many, many others – but halwa is a near-universal treat: a sweet, buttery pudding made with everything from mung beans to pineapples, but which is often carrot-based.

Carrots are grown in abundance in the UK and are cheap and healthy, so gajar ka halwa offers the perfect excuse to crack open the celebratory sugar and ghee. As Meera Sodha puts it in Fresh India: “If eating carrots as a pudding strikes you as odd, remember how good a spiced carrot cake is. This isn’t too distant a cousin.”

And just in case, you want to impress any of your Indian friends who celebrate Diwali, here’s a Diwali greeting for you too.

May you have all the joy your heart can hold, all the smiles a day can bring, all the blessings a life can unfold, May you get the world’s best in everything.

Coconut barfi

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No Diwali celebration is complete without platefuls of barfi, besan laddoo and halwa – and homemade sweets are the best. One of the most commonly made barfi recipe during festivals like Holi, Diwali, Navratri is this coconut barfi. Barfi, borfi or burfi is a dense milk based sweet confectionery from the Indian subcontinent, a type of mithai served all at times.

This Thermomix version is so easy to do and takes all the hard work away with the continued stirring and heating functions.

Mini Apple Loaf Cakes

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These apple mini loaf cakes truly are a heavenly combination of cake and fruit, lightly spiced with vanilla and cinnamon. I made them recently for my mother-in-law’s birthday (you can’t have a celebration without a cake, right?) Mama isn’t keen on standard cakes or cheesecakes, so I thought something slightly different would do the trick. These certainly were a huge hit.

These apple mini loaves are great for gift giving and make a wonderful bread to serve at breakfast and to pack for lunch. It’s so simple to make individual portions and decorate them beautifully. I don’t know why I don’t this more often.

Credit: This recipe is in Everyday Cakes Collection produced by Thermomix UK and also available on Cookidoo Platform. Link to this Apple Mini Loaf Cookidoo recipe for guided cooking is here.

Adam Simmond’s Rice Pudding

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Whilst the Thermomix was made for the domestic market, it is loved, loved by chefs in the commercial industry. Adam Simmonds is one such chef and he kindly shared this recipe for rice pudding to demonstrators (now called Advisors) in early 2014. It was too good not to share.

This easy, simple and gorgeous rice pudding made in his restaurant as a base for something much for elaborate and deserving of his Michelin stars. In our household, I serve it with some fresh fruit and berries and it goes down equally well.

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.