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Glad it turned out well. My dish was 7cm deep and the raw mix about half filled it. I never time anything much when I'm cooking, so time was a guess, also my mix was still fairly warm when I put it into cook.

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As a newbie that is temporarily without an oven, I've been experimenting with cooking cakes in the Varoma. I figured that if it didn't need a crust steaming would be a good thing to try, so moist fruity cakes would be an idea. I have an oval pyrex dish that fits in the bottom of the Varoma. I lined the dish with filmwrap, with enough to cover right over the top to prevent drips from landing in my cake. The first time I used a full mix for a 8in tin mix. This was too much for my pyrex dish and it took ages to steam and I had to turn it over to finish it off. The boiled fruit cake worked much better when I made a half mix. It was steamed in about 45 min. I just bend a couple of bamboo skewers to allow the steam through under the dish.
Nice and moist. Think I will try and get a larger pyrex dish, so I can make bigger cakes, coz they taste so nice and moist.

Here's the fruitcake recipe. This is a half quantity which I used for steaming.

1 kg of dried fruit of choice. If using large pieces of dates or ginger, chop these roughly in TMX first before adding rest of fruit.
75 g Butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup port
1/4 cup apple juice or water
1 tsp mixed spice
Mix 12 min/100^o/reverse slow
Cool to below 50^oC
Add 1 egg, 1 cup of plain flour,  1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda. .
Brief reverse mix to blend (yes it will be a bit frothy)
Pour into steaming dish, lined with film wrap, cover with film wrap. Steam 45 - 60 min until cooked.

Tastes just like it does when I bake it in the oven. If cooking in oven, use double this recipe and bake 140^oC for 90 - 120 mins.

members' comments

cookie - It's steaming as I write. I've had to give it a bit of extra time. I think I should have used a shallower dish. Colleen was your dish deep? The raw mixture tasted delicious.
We tasted the cake last night when it came out it was delicious, but very crumbly. This morning it is better. I'll definitely be making this again. Very little sugar or fat. It is probably one of the richest boiled fruit cakes I've ever had. Very nice, thanks Colleen. I hunted round and found an older style casserole dish I had and just propped it up on an egg ring. I ended up steaming it for about 1 hour 10 minutes or so. It firms up as it cools. Lovely taste with the port (I used marsala) and I used orange juice instead of water.

Colleen - My dish was 7 cm deep and the raw mix about half filled it. I never time anything much when I'm cooking, so time was a guess, also my mix was still fairly warm when I put it into cook.

andiesenji - I would like to remind everyone that you can test your cake to see if it is done by checking the internal temp with an instant read thermometer. When the internal temp is  200° F. -  94° C, it is fully cooked.  Any less than that and the center will be under-cooked.


 
 

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I don't have many old app to get rid off. Will keep by stick mixer, handmixer and big Kenwood, but never had a blender. May retire the icecream maker. Anything I don't want, if it's still in excellent condition goes on EBay. If it's not really saleable it goes on FreeCycle. Hope your all members of your local FreeCycle.
http://www.freecycle.org/group/AU/

Forget the diamonds, just give me chocolate and a Thermomix

Colleen

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Got my Thermomix last Wednesday, bought it without a demo. Had to have it. I'm in the middle of Kitchen renovations and haven't had a stove or cooktop for a couple of months. Been using the BBQ, microwave and a second hand electric frying pan. New kitchen still several weeks away.
Got desperate to make a cake on the weekend, so I made a steamed carrot cake. I love carrot cake, but never make it because I can't be bothered grating all those carrots. So easy in the TM. I used an oval dish to steam it in the Varoma. Lined and covered with GladWrap. Would have been better cooking it in two batches as it was so deep, so took over an hour. However it tastes great.
Tonight I wanted to make LambBurgers, but had no buns. Love my bread maker but it's not good with small dough quantities so used the TM to make 4 burger buns and cooked them in the elec frying pan. worked very well.
My only problem is getting past my 13 yo who is busy making slushies and ice mocchas.
I've never been a good rice cooker, but am perfect at it now.
Going to become a demontrator in the new year here in South Australia. Can't help myself. I have to tell everyone about wonderful toys like this.

Colleen