Muffins n mantou

Another day playing around with thermomix.

Thought of making muffins for son to bring to school. So assemble out stuff available in the fridge.

Pretty fast it mix up and the longest time was me scouping the batter into the cup.  One drawback is that there would be some batter left in the mixing bowl, cause were under the knife not easy to get them all out. On the other hand, cleaning up is very fast. Some liquid dishwasher and a spind, left only some cleaning with hands. If ordinary cake mixer, it would be easy to get all the batter out, but then cleaning freezes me....

made a dozen muffins

I added prune and raisins. And substitute soy milk made earlier for milk. Look good? Well, it taste just nice :)

Oh o, what about breakfast? I thought perhaps better to have another food as breakfast. If not, he will have breakfast - muffin, morning snack - muffin, afternoon snack - muffin. Son might got fedup wo..
So, so, so... dig out some ordinary flour and wa la:

Added sesame seeds (first toasted 3mins using Varoma heat). Hmm.. very crunchy mantou indeed.

Comparing to norm or traditionally - knead by hand. Steam with wok and to monitor time. Need paper for mantou to "sit" and cloth lining on the steaming tray.

Using thermomix - knead with it and temperature setting to 37 deg C to help kick start yeast. When steaming, just use Varoma temperature setting and it will beep when done. Cool. I can do other activity while it's cooking. yeah :)

In one day, after lunch made muffins and before bed made mantou. Couldn't have made these by norm. I would be too tired to wanting to make them. Good thing I have thermomix now to help. haha..