Challenge #27 - Breville Cakes

[miss_s_b]

If you click through to embiggen you can probably see the recipe. I don't bother with all the creaming of the butter and sugar and gradual adding of egg and crap, I just use the all in one method:

Stick the Breville on to preheat.

Grab:
50g softened butter
50g caster sugar
50g self-raising flour
1 egg
Vanilla Extract

Stick it in an appropriate vessel, whap it till smooth, divide it up between the depressions in the Breville (you need to do this bit quite quickly so the bottoms don't burn), close the lid, leave for 3 minutes, remove from Breville, eat.

This is an easy thing to do when drunk and craving cake, as you can probably tell from the formatting of this entry. Am tempted to go make another set...

Variations: You need to use quite strongly flavoured things to make a difference to these. Ones I have tried and liked include zest of one lime, some cinnamon, and some ginger. I wouldn;t use much of anything liquid.

Challenge 27: Chocolate bread

[el_staplador]

So, after discovering that the sandwich toaster needs its plug replacing, the cookbook that came with the halo fryer mostly contains things that I could cook much more easily in the slow cooker, the slow cooker instruction booklet contains no recipes, and I couldn't face getting the food processor out of the cupboard, never mind washing it up, I went for the breadmaker.

Ingredients (NB cups are American cups - 8 fl oz):

3/4 cup water
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tbsp skimmed milk powder
1/2 tbsp sunflower oil
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups strong white bread flower
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 tsp fast action yeast

Add to the pan as advised in your breadmaker's instructions. Use the setting for sweet breads.

I'm having a slice of this now, buttered.