Quick Desserts

[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.

[Lisa]

We make a quick dessert here using the pre-made tart cases. It's a lime tart.
I can't remember the exact measurements but basically we get a can of condensed milk and add the grated rind of 2 limes and the juice of 1 lime. Mix it and pour it into the pre-made tart case. Something in the limes makes the mixture set. You can add some meringue if you like and bake it but we like it on its own dusted with some icing sugar and served with some ice cream.
I usually make this using the individual pre-made cases so everyone has their own.