Newbie needs help

[ajwilson]

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   

[Bonsai]

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!

[achookwoman]

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.

[faffa_70]

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   

[achookwoman]

Thanks Faffa

[Cornish Cream]

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

[cookie1]

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

[Moo2]

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.

[cookie1]

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

[hools003]

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

[Katya]

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....

[judydawn]

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.

[hools003]

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

[Katya]

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

[cookie1]

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.