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Title: Newbie needs help
Post by: ajwilson on March 13, 2011, 12:42:54 am

Hi,
I'm a newbie Thermomix owner/operator and need some advice PLEASE.
I have a favourite banana cake recipe which uses the creaming method (sugar & butter mix) and I am hoping you can tell me what settings to use on my machine for this.  I think the butterfly attachment would be suitable also.
Looking forward to all replies.
Ciao
ajwilson   ???

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Bonsai on March 13, 2011, 01:02:02 am

Hi Ajwilson - about 30 secs on speed 5 should work, you don't need to use the butterfly. I'm not much of a cake maker but looking at the recpies in the everyday cookbook (which you get with your thermomix) uses this for most cake recipes to mix butter and sugar together.

Happy cooking!

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: achookwoman on March 13, 2011, 01:08:13 am

As suggested by a very good cook on the forum, ?.  Use speed 3 ,  for longer and you don't have to scrape down the bowl.  I use castor sug.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: faffa_70 on March 13, 2011, 03:31:16 am

Speed 3 for about a minute and castor sugar made first in the dry bowl (raw sugar speed 9 for about 3 seconds) if you don't have any in the pantry. I only keep raw sugar now and mill to either castor or icing sugar.


Let us know how you go   :D

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: achookwoman on March 13, 2011, 03:55:33 am

Thanks Faffa ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Cornish Cream on March 13, 2011, 01:47:42 pm

Hi and welcome to the forum ajwilson.Come back and tell us whether your favourite banana cake recipe worked in your new TM. :)

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: cookie1 on March 22, 2011, 07:26:19 am

Yes please. I have heaps of frozen bananas in the freezer.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Moo2 on March 22, 2011, 08:35:29 am

Quote from: cookie1 on March 22, 2011, 07:26:19 am

Yes please. I have heaps of frozen bananas in the freezer.

Good planning Cookie1 given the price of bananas these days. Wish I had done so.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: cookie1 on March 23, 2011, 06:49:35 am

We picked them up very cheap, so were lucky several weeks ago. I saw bananas at $12 kg this morning.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: hools003 on March 23, 2011, 07:12:41 am

We have banana smoothie very regularly and I froze about 20 bananas a few weeks ago  ;D
DH went to the pinjarra spud shed yesterday and the bananas were $4.49 kilo!!!!! Noice!

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Katya on March 23, 2011, 07:53:54 am

Not having ever frozen bananas before, can I ask a really stupid question?    Do you peel them before freezing them?  I suspect the answer is yes but want to check.... ??? ???

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: judydawn on March 23, 2011, 08:03:56 am

You can do either way Katya, I have a few whole bananas in the freezer just because I was too lazy to chop and bag them :-)) :-)) I do prefer them already chopped though - less fiddling when you come to use them.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: hools003 on March 23, 2011, 08:06:25 am

Hi Katya, i always peel first then chuck them all in a freezer bag whole. They are easy to slice when frozen. :D

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Katya on March 23, 2011, 08:29:53 am

Thanks - I knew I'd get the answer.    I love this forum    :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: cookie1 on March 26, 2011, 04:38:40 am

I'm different again. I actually peel mine and slice them in thick chunks and put them in a cheap plastic bag, 1 banana per bag and then throw all the little cheap bags of bananas into a better quality bag and freeze them. Then I know I can pull out 3 small plastic bags of frozen banana for 3 bananas. It worked well for us last time as we had many kilos of bananas to freeze.

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Very Happy Jan on March 26, 2011, 04:41:27 am

Quote from: cookie1 on March 26, 2011, 04:38:40 am

I'm different again. I actually peel mine and slice them in thick chunks and put them in a cheap plastic bag, 1 banana per bag and then throw all the little cheap bags of bananas into a better quality bag and freeze them. Then I know I can pull out 3 small plastic bags of frozen banana for 3 bananas. It worked well for us last time as we had many kilos of bananas to freeze.

OMG that is FAR TOO organised Cookie1.  Very good idea though  ;) ;)

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: cookie1 on March 26, 2011, 06:32:04 am

DH helped and I think we had about 12-15kg to do. :D :D

Title: Re: Newbie needs help
Post by: Thermomixer on April 26, 2011, 09:59:44 am

Welcome ajwilson - hope you have loads of fun.