Quick Desserts

[Salad]

Thanks heaps there are some really great ideas.
I have a really quick easy and tasty recipe for golden syrup dumplings in the microwave if anyone is interested.

[Nadine216]

ME!! for the dumplings ... I just love them, I make cinnamon dumplings in the microwave. Havent for a while, though, should though

[Salad]

nadine I love golden syrup dumplings and I have tried them heaps but these are just to die for, when you make them let me know what you think.

Golden Syrup Dumplings

Prep Time ? 10 minutes
Cooking time ? 9 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup self raising flour
4 tablespoons of butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg beaten
? teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of golden syrup

1. Place flour in a mixing bowl, using fingertips, rub in half the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Using a fork stir in ? cup of sugar, the egg vanilla and milk to make a soft dough. Using damp hands shape dough into 8 balls and set aside.

2. Place remaining butter, remaining sugar and golden syrup in a large shallow microwave safe dish. Add 1 ? cups boiling water and mix well until sugar dissolves.

3. Cook on high (100%) for 4 minutes or until simmering. Add dumplings and cover. Cook on high for 5 minutes, stand covered for 5 minutes (if you can wait that long) serve warm with ice cream or cream.

Notes:
You can cook dumplings in advance and reheat on medium for 3-5 minutes
Avoid overcooking. If using a higher wattage microwave reduce cooking time by 1 ?2 minutes. This recipe is based in a 1250 watt microwave. Mine is 1200 watt and it turns out fine.

[Nadine216]

Going to try them tonight, thank you.

I have to first go and check what wattage my microwave is

[Nadine216]

Ok so I learned a few things last night

My microwave is only 900W
I LOVE this dumpling batter
AND I can't read a recipe!!!!

I liked it all right, but I think the dough was a bit runny (but yummy, runny, but yummy), or I did something wrong, because I could not mould the dumplings by hand. I just dropped them in the syrup with a spoon. In the end the dumplings were more like little overdone cakes in yummy-syrup than dumpling-dumplings. Not that I'm at all complaining, because I got out about 9 dumplings and ate 4 semi-hot I did however liked it A LOT more this morning at 5:05 when DS woke me up ... so in actual fact I had 5 dumplings!!

Thanks Salad. I'm going to tweak it a bit by using my cinnamon dumpling dough and your syrup. Going to try again tonight!!

[Erin_25]

mmmm I love dumplings, I've done them in the microwave once & think I over cooked them.

I stumbled across such a quick easy & yummy sponge pudding recipe on the net when Mum & Dad were visiting recently....so quick & a real winner. I would have to look it up again for the recipe, but basically just a quick sponge batter, put that in a square cake pan.....doesn't look like much but once you roll it up. Cook in oven for like 10mins, then heat jam in a saucepan til runny, take sponge out of pan still warm, cover with jam, roll up & dust with icing sugar...serve with whatever you like. Yum & it takes no time at all.

[Salad]

as long as you could still eat it who cares lol

I just looked at my post of the recipe and for some reason it is stuffed up so I will re post it again, dont know why all those ? marks are in there. I think that is where you went wrong - not your fault

Golden Syrup Dumplings

Prep Time : 10 minutes
Cooking time: 9 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup self raising flour
4 tablespoons of butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of golden syrup

1. Place flour in a mixing bowl, using fingertips, rub in half the butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Using a fork stir in 1/4 cup of sugar, the egg vanilla and milk to make a soft dough. Using damp hands shape dough into 8 balls and set aside.

2. Place remaining butter, remaining sugar and golden syrup in a large shallow microwave safe dish. Add 1 1/2 cups boiling water and mix well until sugar dissolves.

3. Cook on high (100%) for 4 minutes or until simmering. Add dumplings and cover. Cook on high for 5 minutes, stand covered for 5 minutes (if you can wait that long) serve warm with ice cream or cream.

Notes:
You can cook dumplings in advance and reheat on medium for 3-5 minutes
Avoid overcooking. If using a higher wattage microwave reduce cooking time by 1 - 2 minutes. This recipe is based in a 1250 watt microwave. Mine is 1200 watt and it turns out fine.

[Nadine216]

I know why I liked it that much ... I threw in HALF a cup of brown sugar in the dough!!!!! Yummy!!!

Oh well, I'll re-make it again tonight.

I might also have overcooked them Disregarding the " AVOID OVERCOOKING" warning at the bottom.