Sweet Day to Day SlowCookery

I love to cook sweet things for my family on special occasions - but I hate a hot kitchen... Slow cookers have changed my life, but the best thing I have found is that they don't always need to be making casserole. I've cooked bread, rice, others have done fudge and jam, but my favourite thing to cook in a slow cooker is cake... dessert cake and puddings. Dessert cake can also be cooked in the steaming attachment and either way you choose to cook it cakes can be prepared in the thermomixer jar.

For copyright reasons, I will not be putting in all the ingredients stated in the book. Don't own/cant find your D2DC? No worries... I will pop links to similar recipes in with my "method".

Sweet Day to Day SlowCookery

Basic Steamed Pudding

If you don't have a D2DC book, check out this cake recipe add a cup of boiling water and 3/4 cup jam or syrup. D2DC owners may notice that the amount of butter is less in the sandcake recipe. I actually forgot the butter one time when I cooked in the slowcooker and it was amazing. It probably would have been rock hard the next day (as butter adds moisture), but my family inhaled it so I cannot be sure.

1. "Sift" flour by popping into jar and hitting turbo 2/3 times at 3 second intervals and remove.

Note: if your thermomixer needs a timer to be set before it will spin, set it for a bout 10-15 minutes.

2. Insert butterfly and beat butter and sugar to a cream. They great thing about a thermomixer is that to soften the butter to room temp you can set the timer to (depedning on you mixture) 37 or 40/1/1 to begin then when butter is soft, insert butterfly and pop in sugar speed 5.

3. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time through the MC hole.

4. Alternate adding milk and flour through the mc hole while blades are still spinning.  

5a. If using a slow cooker you may choose to line it with baking paper (scrunch, wet and place in the bowl).

5b. If using the steaming attachment or a bowl within your slow cooker, grease a pudding basin (that fits in your equipment).

6. Pour pudding mixture into pudding bowl/lined crock pot, along with any variations as well as 1 cup boiling water on top.

7a. Add 1L of water to the jar and set timer 120/5/35 minutes (or as close to as your machine goes; cook till done). 

7b. If using a slow cooker, place the lid on. Cook on high for about 2 hours.

 Plain Cake

Here is a great recipe for cake if you don't have access to a D2DC, uses less butter too. 

1. "Sift" flour by popping into jar and hitting turbo 2/3 times at 3 second intervals and remove.

Note: if your thermomixer needs a timer to be set before it will spin, set it for a bout 10-15 minutes.

2. Insert butterfly and beat butter and sugar to a cream. They great thing about a thermomixer is that to soften the butter to room temp you can set the timer to (depedning on you mixture) 37 or 40/1/1 to begin then when butter is soft, insert butterfly and pop in sugar speed 5.

3. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time through the MC hole.

4. Alternate adding milk and flour through the mc hole while blades are still spinning.  

5a. If using a slow cooker you may choose to line it with baking paper (scrunch, wet and place in the bowl).

5b. If using the steaming attachment or a bowl within your slow cooker, grease a cake tin (that fits in your equipment, silicon/glass is best for steamers, tin works for slow cookers).

6. Pour pudding mixture into pudding bowl/lined crock pot.

7a. Add 1L of water to the jar and set timer 120/5/35 minutes (or as close to as your machine goes; cook till done - timing will vary according to how fast the blades are moving and how high the temp can be set). 

7b. If using a slow cooker, place the lid on. Cook on high for about 2 hours. with a small towel under the glass lid. Secure the corners of tea towel/washer with a knot or rubber band to avoid fire danger.

Serve with cream or custard