Calippo-style icy poles | Thermomix

This was my favourite icy-pole growing up. My mum introduced me to the lovely tangy lemony goodness at a young age...and I've always had a craving for them in summer!

I found these silicon cases at Kmart and thought I'd try recreating the recipe at home.

INGREDIENTS 2 lemons, flesh only. Remove with pith. 100g raw sugar 200g ice cubes

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS Puree lemon and sugar together, speed 6 for 5 seconds Add ice and blend for 30 seconds on speed 9 Pour into silicon cases and freeze Tips:  peel the lemon skin off with a potato peeler and keep in the freezer for later use substitute lemon for orange, and reduce sugar MAKES 6

Dairy Free Cauliflower 'Cheese' Soup

I've finally gotten around to converting one of our family favourite soup recipes to use in the Thermomix. I used to make this with a 250g block of cream cheese added, but recently 2 of our 3 girls have had to exclude dairy from their diet, so I tried to see if I could replicate the flavour, minus the dairy. I think I succeeded! I hope you let me know if you try it

INGREDIENTS 1 onion 1 garlic clove 30g olive oil 1 tin (400ml) coconut cream 800ml water 350g roughly chopped cauliflower (can use some stem and inner leaves) 2 Tb TM veggie stock paste concentrate 2 bay leaves 1/4 ts curry powder (or to taste) 1 ts nutritional yeast (optional)

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS Chop onion and garlic for 3 sec, speed 4.5. Scrape down Add oil and cook 4 mins, 120c (Model 5) or Varoma (TM31), speed soft Add coconut cream, top up tin with water to wash out and add another 800ml water Add all other ingredients Cook for 20 minutes, 100c, speed 1 Check cauliflower is soft, cook for longer if need otherwise proceed Remove bay leaves. Puree on speed 8, turning speed up very gradually, for 40 seconds Tips Recipe can increased by 50% to make 1.5 x batch Nutritional yeast gives this the 'cheesy' flavour without the cream cheese.  By all means add a 250g block of cream cheese if you like. It will taste superb!

DISCLAIMER
This recipe was provided to you by a Thermomix ® customer and has not been tested by Vorwerk Thermomix ® or Thermomix ® in Australia and New Zealand.
Vorwerk Thermomix ® and Thermomix ® in Australia and New Zealand assume no liability, particularly in terms of ingredient quantities used and success of the recipes.
Please observe the safety instructions in the Thermomix ® instruction manual at all times.

Sticky Date Custard and other great custard ideas | Thermomix

I think we've made about every flavoured custard possible...it was one of the things that sold my husband on the Thermomix. So why hadn't I thought of this flavour yet?? 

Sticky Date Custard             by Nat's Thermomixen in the Kitchen

INGREDIENTS 100g dates, pitted 1 MC (100ml) water 500g milk (any kind will work, if you are dairy free) 2 eggs 50g flour 1 Tb brown or dark brown sugar

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS Add dates and water, cook on 100C for 4 mins, speed 2 Blend on speed 4 for 5 seconds, scrape down Add remaining ingredients on 90C for 7 mins, speed 4 Try not to eat the whole bowl. Recipe can be halved and doubled. Increase cooking time to 12 minutes when doubling. Decrease to 5 minutes when halving.

Other great flavours to try:

• vanilla custard
• lemon custard
• orange custard
• chocolate custard
• jaffa custard (same as lemon, but use orange peel instead of lemon and add 2 Tb of good quality cocoa powder)
• pink 'princess' custard (make vanilla, and had a handful of raspberries in the last 1 minute)
• bounty custard (coconut chocolate)
• banoffee pie custard
• mocha custard  
• coconut caramel custard
• caramel custard

I could go on and on....

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Love creating surprises every day with this awesome machine!


DISCLAIMER
This recipe was provided to you by a Thermomix ® customer and has not been tested by Vorwerk Thermomix ® or Thermomix ® in Australia and New Zealand.
Vorwerk Thermomix ® and Thermomix ® in Australia and New Zealand assume no liability, particularly in terms of ingredient quantities used and success of the recipes.
Please observe the safety instructions in the Thermomix ® instruction manual at all times.