
I’m now staring and staring at this box of Green’s Lemon Cake Pre-mix. Then. I remembered i dont have milk and only maybe a quarter stick of butter left. How to bake cake tomorrow?
It’s a rainy Sunday and Papa’s not around to take us out. The Muffin Pre-mixes i bought from Wah Seng (Ipoh) on Friday were still lying on the kitchen table. The kids are hungry and i had to come up with something to keep them happy till dinner. And so……
I baked them 16 Blueberry muffins using half a packet of the pre-mix.
Rising nicely in the mini muffin cups without touching the top of the toaster oven.
In 15 minutes, my Blueberry muffins are ready to be eaten.
I brought two into the room for Gordon and Malcolm.
Here’s Malcolm enjoying the Blueberry muffin. Gordon ran away as soon as he got his.
And here’s how the Blueberry Muffins from Wah Seng are like on the inside. Just the right texture. I love baking for kids. PASS.
I just had this urge to bake some brownies today. Hubby bought a box of Pilsbury Chocolate Walnut Brownie Mix and it’s sitting pretty inside the kitchen cabinet. I’ve not baked brownies for a long time. As it’s the weekend and i’m not going anywhere, the kids will be thrilled with the brownie.
Here, you can see my brand new Foodbuzz scraper (is that what you call it?). Thank you, Foodbuzz. There’s an apron too, but i’m not wearing it. Too precious, lol. All the contents of the box emptied into to Philips Cucina Mixer’s mixing bowl and i’m ready to go.
I used two eggs instead of one this time. According to the instructions on the back of the box, this will yield a more cake-like texture. I have to bake it for an extra ten minutes or so. The last time i baked this Pilsbury Brownie Mix, it got burnt slightly at the top. So, i covered the 8×8 Pyrex Bowl with aluminium foil.
The Chocolate Brownie was still somewhat undercooked when i took it out of the Philips Toaster Oven. As Malcolm couldnt wait to eat it, i cut some of the cooked part for him and placed it back into the toaster oven for a further ten minutes uncovered. Here’s my happy kid enjoying the brownie that his Cooking Mama made.
It’s easy to bake Brownies in a toaster oven. It can be done with slight adjustments as each toaster oven i different. You just have to learn how yours work and make the most out of it. It wont be as good as a conventional oven, but on a scale of 1 to 10, i’ll give it an 8. Fair enough? Your turn to give it a try.
Betty Crocker is well known for her cook books and recipes. We do have quite a lot of Betty Crocker ready mixes here. And today, i feel like baking some Betty Crocker Chocolate Chips Cookies with my Philips toaster oven.
Here’s the contents of half a packet of Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookies Mix.
Just need to add butter and one egg to it.
Mix the cookie dough up to a nice lump like what you see here. Can you see the chocolate chips in the dough?
Next, take the baking paper out and cut them to the size of my baking sheet. It’s actually the one that came with my Philips toaster oven.
Spooned the cookie dough onto the baking sheet.
Here’s Malcolm watching me preparing the cookies to go into the toaster oven whilst munching on a cracker.
I managed to get 27 cookies with this batch using half a box of the Betty Crocker Chocolate Chips Cookies Mix.
This is the first tray inside the toaster oven set to 180 degrees Celsius. Bake for about 10 minutes.
Here’s Malcolm testing the first cookie that i baked using the Philips toaster oven. It’s still warm but how to stop a hungry kid, you tell me. The second batch is already inside the oven…..
And after 45 minutes, all my Chocolate Chips cookies are ready. Not bad. Geeeeee…. had better go dig out my Joy Of Making Cookies Recipe Book By Alex Goh. Write a few siple cookies recipe down and head to the baking supplies store on my next trip to town. If possible i’ll substitute all the ingredients with organic baking ingredients. Better mah.
And it’s also time i go get myself a proper oven. The thing now is how big an oven should i buy? 40ltr plus enough or not? I’ve baked brownies, cakes, muffins and now, cookies with my Philips toaster oven. If you’ve been asking yourself, “Can i bake cookies using a toaster oven?”, Yes, it can be done if you are a casual cook like me.
But if you want to bake large batches for festive seasons like Christmas and Chinese New Year, it’s only sane to use a bigger oven, right. If not, you can see how much work needs to be done in order to get 27 cookies, lol. I’ll be out hunting for an oven these days. Hope i find one that fits my budget.
I’m not new to baking from ready-mixes. Far too lazy to go dig for recipes sometimes. That’s why whenever i see something new on the shelf, i’ll grab a box or two. And this is the box of Krusteaz Lemon Poppyseed Muffin Mix i bought some time back.
Here’s how the packet of muffin mix looks like out of the box.
I dont have any muffin baking cups and i cant find one that can fit into my Philips toaster oven at the malls either. What to do. The creative one in me saw some unused papercups inside the kitchen cabinet and decided to put them to good use. They were far to tall and here’s me measuring them so that i can make them shorter.
Here are the papercups cut to the size i want.
I’m only using half the contents. So, i halfed whatever’s written at the back of the box.
Pre-heat the Philips toaster oven at 230 degrees Celcius.
Cracked the gg into the Krusteaz Muffin Mix.
Fold everything up lightly and poured the poppyseed into the muffin mix.
Spoon the lemon poppyseed muffin mix into the prepared papercups half full. Yield around 9 small muffins.
All it takes is about 15 minutes and…………
TADAAAAA…… my lovely Lemon Poppyseed muffins are ready!!!! YUMMMMMM…….. If you’ve not baked muffins in papercups using a toaster oven before, believe you me, it can be done.