Banana Walnut Muffin with Buckwheat flour

A super quick late night snack. Buckwheat is used instead of wheat flour, reduce sweetness on top of using low GI palm sugar. I don't like to store food so I only make half the original recipe. Good opportunity to use up over ripe banana. The muffin is light and so yummy! Since I only make such a small batch so I did not use my Thermomix, I can simply hand whip all the ingredient in a big salad bowl after all muffin do not like to be over beaten, and a six muffin tray fit nicely into my counter top toaster instead of churning up my oven.
The following recipe is converted to Thermomix friendly and you can double up the volume to make full batch of muffin.

Ingredients: (only 6 muffins)

Ripe banana 2
Buckwheat flour (home grind) 120g (1 cup)
Olive oil 30g (3 tbsp)
Palm Nectar Sugar  40g (1/3c)
Small Egg  1
Baking Soda  2/3 tsp
Chopped walnut some

1. Grind buckwheat grain 2min/speed10, set aside.
2. Mash banana with sugar (5s/speed6), scrap down
3. Add oil, egg, flour, baking soda. Speed4/10second (do not over beat)
4. Stir in walnut
5. Bake 12min 200c

Eat, brush teeth, sleep.......

Steamed 'Bun'ny and Porcupines!

Chinese steamed bun or (Man Tou) is the easiest to make, either you can add some fillings or just plain. But making them into these cute babies, that takes a little longer! But my daughter and I just had lots of fun snipped up those porcupine with a scissors. Yes, scissors will just do the tricks!
Unlike bread, Man Tau do not need to rise twice.

Recipe:
Water 120g
Yeast 1tsp
Sugar 20g
Oil 15g
Pau flour (or any bread flour) 250g
Salt 1/2 tsp

1. Place water, yeast, sugar, oil into TM bowl, mix 30s 37C at speed3
2. Add flour, salt. Knead 3min
3. Shape dough into oval for skinny bunny or round for well fed ones, use a sharp scissor to snip from the head onward. Add black sesame seeds for the eyes.  n let rise for 30min in warm place,
4. Steam for 20min Veroma speed1.

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Buckwheat Chocolate Cake with Thermomix

I promised that there will be more chocolate to come! I also wanted to experiment with different grain flour as a substitute to white flour. This buckwheat grain worked equally well compared to quinoa. Buckwheat has 13g of protein while plain white flour only has 8g, buckwheat also has 5.8 times more fiber than plain flour.

150g Buckwheat grain

2 Eggs (small)

65g Olive oil

120g almond milk

50g Molasses or palm sugar

1 packet Stevia powder (optional)

15g Cocoa powder

1tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp vinegar

1/3 tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla extract

(for variation: add some hazelnut to grind with the buckwheat)

- Grind the buckewheat into powder for 20 second at speed10

- All all other ingredient into the mixing bowl

- Mix for 20 seconds at speed6

- Pour into baking pan

- Bake at 170c for 15-20min



Quinoa Chocolate Cupcake with Cashew Cream

A friend (thanks Bee Hong!) brought me a box of ten Lindt Chocolate last month, I quess the theme of this month cooking will be....chocolate! I don't have problem with chocolate, do you? I can eat, drink, soak, dream about it all day long and still want more!

This is cupcake version of the last choclate quinoa chocolate cake, but instead of 100% quinoa flour, I mixed this with 50% buckwheat grain (pulverized to flour with Thermomix), and the result is as good!

Whipped up some cashew 'cream' to go with some fresh fruits, it is as picture perfect as it taste good!

Recipe for dailry free Cashew Cream:
1 cup Soaked Cashew (8hours)
1/2 cup water
3 dates or stevia extract
1 tsp vanilla extract

• put all in thermomix, turn to speed 9 for 20sec, scrap down a few times. reduce water to suite the cream thickness, it will get thicken when keep in the fridge.

Quinoa Chocolate Cake with Thermomix

Quinoa is an amazing grain, for people who are allergic to gluten, for suffering gout, quinoa is the best substitute to wheat flour. Besides, it has more digestible protein and all round better minerals and 3 times more calcium than plain white flour! so why not?

Quinoa flour is not easily found in Malaysia, but I am saved by Thermomix, quinoa grain is available in most health food store, 20second in the TM bowl will turn this grain into Flour! This will also ensure that no added gluten or other impurities in the store bought flour.Quinoa Chocolate Cake:
Quinoa grain 150g
Egg 2
Olive oil 70g
Almond milk 120g (or oat milk or raw milk)
Molasses sugar 60g
Stevia Powder 1pkt (stevia is a type of sweet leaves)
Cocoa Powder 20g
Baking Powder 1tsp
Baking Soda 1/2 tsp
SeaSalt 1/3tsp
Vinegar 1/2 tsp
Vanilla extract 2 tsp

• Pulverize Quinoa grain for 15-20second
• Add in all other ingredients
• Mix 20sec at speed6
• Bake at 180c for 15min (if shallow pan, 20-30min if deeper tray is used)

Chocolate Sauce:
Medjool Dates 6
Cocoa bar 70g (use 80% or more cocoa content)
Almond Milk 1/2c
Olive Oil 10g

Meringue

What do you do with extra egg whites after some recipe that only call for the egg yolks like Kaya (coconut jam), my daughter (candy addicts) sure would suggest it to pair with sugar and that make it into meringue. Obviouly this is a pure white sugary naught, though I must confess it was once my own fantasy to make those delightfully cute treat, well I thought maybe I can do it like a craft, admire it, take photo shots and throw them off the window later, yup! Let's do it!
But not quite, my children attack them like a wolf! Thank God I brought some kids over to share the risk!
This recipe do not use cream of tartar, I was told it will not work, somehow it did! Maybe it helps to hold the shape better, but I am happy to go with one less chemical. Sugar is real bad enough by itself.


Ingredient:
5 Egg Whites
200g White sugar (Ouch!) Will try brown sugar next time.
1/4 tsp salt
Lemon Juice 1/2 tsp
Beets juice 1tsp

1. Pulverize sugar, set aside
2. Put egg whites and salt into TM bowl, 50C/7min/speed3
3. Add in sugar SLOWLY and juice for another 2min
4. Bake at 120-150c for 30-45min.
5. Turn off powder and leave the merigue in the oven for 1-2 hours for it to completely dry and crunchy, especially in humid country. 
6. Store in air tight container (if it can make it to storage)
7. See a dentist immediately!