Chicken & Ricotta Crepe Bake

converted a friend's recipe tonight, apart from ryan (our cheese and chicken hater) it was a hit!

please see my blog for further details!!

Basic Butter Cake, TMX style

based on recipe posted here

this makes a large cake (it's the original recipe doubled) so feel free to halve it :)

320g white sugar
mill into caster sugar by using speed 6 for approx 5-10 seconds
add the butterfly into the bowl

250g soft butter, cut into pieces 2 tspn vanilla essence
add and mix at speed 4 for 40-50 seconds until the mix is light in colour and a little fluffy looking

turn speed down to 2 and add
4 eggs - ONE at a time
after each egg turn speed up to 4 for 5 seconds

add 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4, mix 5 seconds

turn speed back to 2 and add
1/2 cup milk through lid, mix 3 seconds

add 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4, mix 5 seconds

turn speed back to 2 and add
1/2 cup milk through lid, mix 3 seconds

add final 1 cup SR flour with lid off,
turn speed up to 4 and mix 5 seconds
(total 3 cups self raising flour and 1 cup milk)

mix for a further 10 seconds until the mix seems light and fluffy.

pour into a greased, lined cake tin. cooking times will vary according to your oven and size of tin but start with 40 mins at around 160-180'c, test with a skewer and cook further as required.

this one is a piece of.... slice

modified from this recipe

Passionfruit Slice

Base:
125g butter, cut into chunks
170g self-raising flour
100g castor sugar
pinch salt
85g coconut

Melt butter for 1:30 mins 80'c speed 3
add other ingredients and mix 3-4 times for 2-4 seconds at a time speed 4, scraping down in between
Bake in moderate oven 10-15 minutes. Cool.


Topping:
1 400g tin condensed milk ( or skim sweetened condensed milk - tastes the same, but fewer calories!)
1 small lemon, skin, pith and seeds removed, cut into pieces
Pulp of 2 passionfruit

place condensed milk and lemon into TMX. chop lemon on speed 7 for 5 seconds
add passionfruit and mix Reverse speed 2 for 5 seconds
Cook a further 8 to 10 minutes

Whole Orange Cake

this cake was based on the recipe here at Full Bellies Happy Kids

WHOLE ORANGE CAKE

2 big oranges
2 eggs
200g cup grapeseed or other oil

270g plain flour
460g sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder

1 extra orange, halved
1 tablespoon or so of sugar extra
icing sugar - around 1/4 cup or less

heat oven to around 160-180'c *
wash your oranges well, rinse.

cut the ends off, cut into quarters. remove the white centre and any seeds, cut in half again so you have 8 pieces per orange. place in thermomix.

add eggs and oil.
blend on speed 8 for 25-30 seconds until it's mostly smooth, thick and creamy.

add flour, sugar and baking powder
mix on speed 4 for 10-15 seconds until mixed.

pour into a cake tin (greased, lined, whatever you want ;))

bake for about 30-40 minutes until a skewer comes out clean *

let cool for 15-20 minutes

meanwhile juice the extra orange and add the extra sugar to it.
either in a saucepan on the stovetop or in the micrwave heat it until the sugar is dissolved
Add some sugar to the juice and bring to a boil, stir to make sure it's well dissolved.

use the skewer to stab holes all over the top of the cake!
pour the syrup mix over the cake
sift the icing sugar over the top and serve.

* my cake ended up a bit too dark around the edges but took longer to cook in the middle, so i think i need a lower temperature for longer to cook it properly.

we quite liked this cake - it is a stronger and slightly more bitter taste than a 'normal' orange cake, because of the whole orange being used. it is sooooo simple in the TMX though and i like using the whole orange instead of wasting half of it!

Apple Mustard Relish

i suspect this recipe needs tweaking, if anyone who knows more about relish-making than me wants to have a go? it seemed not quite ready to me...

anyway, here's my conversion of this recipe


APPLE MUSTARD RELISH

1 onion, cut into quarters
chop onion 5-10 seconds speed 4, stopping once to scrape down

5g oil
5g yellow mustard seeds
cook for 2.30 mins/secs 100' speed soft

2 granny smith apples, peeled, cored, cut into quarters then halved
chop for 5 seconds speed 6

60g water
cook for 10 minutes 70' speed 1 reverse

15g apple cider vinegar
25g brown sugar
pinch salt
grinding of black pepper
add and cook for 3 minutes 70' speed 1 reverse

sterilise jar.
pour into hot jar and seal while still hot.