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.Thermomix Cooking – Chocolate Chip Cookies + my Thermomix DISASTER!.

I’ve got a new Thermomix recipe to share with you today, but before I do so, I need to fill you in on my TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE Thermomix disaster.  It happened last Sunday and I am only just over it enough to talk about it!
So, I was making chocolate truffles (might share that recipe soon when I get over the trauma associated with them!) and using a metal teaspoon to scoop the mixture out to roll into balls.  I know we hear it over and over again to never use metal spoons in our Thermomixes, but I was being careful not to touch the blades or do anything harmful, it was just easier to get the mixture out that way.  I’d finished the rolling and decided I should make another batch and pop some in the freezer to pull out for snacks and school lunches during the week so I dumped some more biscuits into the bowl and started to whiz them up.  I realised that the Thermomix was making an unusual noise, but thought it must just be stuck on a tough biscuit and turned the speed up a bit.  It was then that I realised that something wasn’t right and I opened the lid, had a poke around and almost died when I found my METAL TEASPOON mangled up in the blades!!!!!!!  I didn’t take it out after the first batch because I was going to wash everything up and didn’t notice it sitting in the bowl before I put the biscuits on top.
If you are a Thermomix owner, I can guarantee that you are gasping right now!  (If you are a wannabe Thermomix owner, you might be laughing at this story!!!)
It was bad, bad, bad.  I felt sick and quickly called my Aunty (who also happens to be my trusty TM consultant).  She scolded me to “NEVER use metal spoons in your Thermomix EVER!” – apparently this is not the first time a Thermo has had a battle with a metal spoon…Thankfully, the spoon lost the battle.  Apart from a couple of small chips in one of the blades everything else is working fine.  It took me a few hours to turn it on and check everything out, I was soooo scared that it was going to be stuffed but I’ve cooked a lot in it since Sunday and everything is working as it used to.
Anyway, let this be a lesson to all of us to NEVER use metal spoons in or around our Thermomixes again!  Just not worth the risk.
Check out the spoon…it looks much worse in real life – some of the scratched/chipped parts of the spoon feel as though they would be sharp enough to cut you – I’m keeping it on my kitchen windowsill as a gentle reminder 😉

 

This is a family favourite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, converted to turn out perfectly in the Thermomix. It took a few tweaks to get it just right, I’m starting to learn that cake/cookie mixture needs to be handled in a certain way in the Thermomix to get the same results as with a mix master.  These cookies are delicious with a soft and chewy center and crisp outside.  
 
 
(If you are wanting to make the cookies without a Thermomix, I posted the original recipe here.)
Only THE BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER!

125g butter
110g white sugar
110g brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
260g self-raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
150g chocolate chips

Place butter, sugars and vanilla in TM bowl.  Cream together for 1 minute on speed 3-4.  
With TM still running, add egg through hole in lid and continue mixing on speed 3-4 for 30 seconds.
Add flour and salt, knead on interval speed for 30 seconds.
Add chocolate chips, stir through with spatula.
Drop teaspoonfuls of mixture on trays, leaving room for spreading.  Bake in moderate oven for 10-12 minutes.

July 21, 2011
Cooking, Thermomix

.Thermomix Cooking – Apple and Blueberry Muffins.

Muffins are easy peasy to cook anytime, so making muffin mixture in the thermomix is even easier than easy!  This recipe is actually taken from the Everday Cookbook – I was a little dubious as to how they would turn out but they are the best fruit muffins I’ve ever made.  These always go down well and the kids are getting a good dose of fruit as they are packed full.  Mix it up and add what ever fruit you like – apricots, raspberries, bananas, sultanas…
 
Apple and Blueberry Muffins

160g self-raising flour
150g wholmeal (or white) plain flour
180g milk
150g raw sugar
2 eggs
70g olive oil
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 can blueberries, drained
2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped into cubes

Place all ingredients, except fruit, into the TM bowl and mix for 40 seconds on speed 4-5.
Add blueberries and apples and carefully mix in by hand using TM spatula (I do this by hand so that the blueberries don’t turn to mush).
Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake in moderate oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

July 13, 2011
Cooking, Thermomix

.Thermomix Cooking – Raspberry Friands.

I had never made friands before, but I had some egg whites left over from another recipe that I needed to use and they looked quick and yummy.  And they were!  I’ve always bought pre-ground almond meal (ground almonds) but last time I was buying some I noticed that the price difference between ground and whole almonds is huge!  Now that I have my Thermomix, I only buy whole almonds and just ground them as I need them.

Raspberry Friands

30g almonds
125g butter
100g sugar
75g self-raising flour
45g coconut
4 egg whites
100g raspberries (fresh or frozen)

Place almonds into TM bowl (if you are using raw sugar, add to bowl also).  Grind on speed 10 for 10 seconds.  Remove from bowl and set aside.
Place butter into TM bowl.  Melt on 80 degrees, speed 2 for 1 minute.
Add almonds, sugar, flour, coconut and egg whites to bowl.  Combine for 30 seconds on interval speed.
Spoon mixture into greased friand (or muffin) tins.  Press raspberries into the top of each friand.
Bake in 200 degree celsius oven for about 15 minutes or until cooked through.

June 6, 2011
Cooking, Thermomix

.Thermomix Cooking – Confetti Cookies.

These delicious cookies were converted from a recipe on Taste.  The kids saw the picture and begged me to cook with them.  I wasn’t expecting them to be overly tasty, but they were really good and we will definitley be making them again!  Because the mixture is placed in the fridge or freezer to chill before cooking, it would be a great idea to make a double batch and keep one log in the freezer for another time.

Confetti Cookies

185g butter
160g sugar
1tsp vanilla
1 egg
280g plain flour
100g 100s + 1000s

Beat butter, sugar and vanilla on speed 4 for 30 seconds.
Add egg, beat on speed 4 for 10 seconds.
Add flour and 100s + 1000s, mix on interval speed for 30 seconds.  Open lid, scrape down sides of the bowl with spatula and mix another 15 seconds on interval speed, using the spatula to help incorporate.
Roll mixture into a 30cm long log.  Roll in plastic wrap.
Place in the fridge for 2 hours to chill.  (Alternatively, place in the freezer for 20 minutes.)
Slice into 1cm thick slices.  Place on baking tray lined with baking paper. 
Bake in moderate oven for 12 minutes.  Rest on tray before removing to wire rack to cool completely.

May 25, 2011
Cooking, Thermomix

.Thermomix Cooking – Marble Cake.

We rate this marble cake pretty high.  The recipe originally came from a cooking magazine and I adapted it to the thermomix.  Very quick and easy, lovely and moist and stays fresh for days.

Marble Cake

180g butter
1 tsp vanilla
220g sugar
3 eggs
300g self-raising flour
160g milk
1 Tbs vinegar

3 Tbs cocoa
Pink food colouring

Place first 7 ingredients into TM bowl.  Blend together on speed 5 for 1 minute.
Divide mixture into three portions.  Place two portions in small mixing bowls and leave the third in the TM bowl.
Add cocoa to TM bowl.  Mix on speed 5 for 10 seconds.
Add a few drops of pink food colouring to one of the extra bowls.  Stir through.
Alternately drop spoonfuls of all three mixtures into a greased and lined loaf pan.  Continue until all mixture is used up.
Create marbled effect by swirling a skewer back and forth through the mixture a few times.  Tap pan on bench to evenly distribute mixture.
Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour – check to see if it is cooked, it may need an extra 10 minutes or so.
When cold, ice with pink icing.

May 7, 2011