Bagels

Could have sworn I put these on here before but anyway. Bagels.

• 3.5 cups water 
• 4.5 cups flour 
• 1/3 white sugar
• 1 tsp salt 
• 2 tbs veg oil
• 2 tbs yeast 
• plus a large pot of boiling water and 2 tbps bicarb of soda 

Plus toppings

Mix dough as per usual, form into bagels when done, rise again, boil for 20 seconds each side, and bake.

Mind you I might try out a totally different method if I have time sometime:

https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/amazing-chewy-bagels-from-scratch

Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnamon Rolls

For the dough:
55ml warm water
210ml milk
1 egg
20g melted butter
450g flour
50g sugar
35g custard powder
3tsp dried yeast

Put ingredients into bread machine and make dough. (Or do it by hand).

For the filling:
2tsb cinnamon
1tsp mixed spice
150g sugar
30g melted butter

Roll out, spread with filling, roll up, slice, lay on baking sheets, bake.

For the topping:
100g cream cheese
30g melted butter
150g icing sugar
maple syrup
lemon juice

Drizzle over the top.

Breakfast Fruit Pastries

Merely puff pastry sheets cut up slightly artistically and stuffed with whatever combo of jam, lemon curd, and fruits you fancy. Totally not my artistic cutting ideas, some video nicked from youtube. Kids liked it. Serve with fresh berries and cream. I think they said the blueberry one was a favourite - did it with lemon curd at the bottom. 

Cream Biscuits

Another of Chef John's recipes. Although I've increased the cream a bit because I kept adding while stirring. Perhaps this flour is more absorbent.

• 2 cups flour including raising agent (2tsp baking powder, sprinkle salt) 
• 2tbs sugar 
• 2 cups heavy cream 

• plus a good dob of melted butter 

Heat oven to Freaking Hot (260c, mine only goes to 225c). Line baking sheet with foil.

Mix main ingredients into a dough, and then for some reason Chef John does an imitation of making puff pastry thing without the layering butter, just once (fold into three and roll out again) and perhaps it makes them flakier. Anyway I did and they pouffed. Cut out, then brush top with melted butter. Bake until golden (10-12 mins). Brush with butter AGAIN. Serve.

Spiced Buns

Bread machine recipe

1 cup milk, whisked with 1 egg, 50g melted butter
450g plain flour
lots of bunnish spices
2tbps dried yeast
50g sugar
125g mixed fruit

Into machine for dough, shape into buns, let rise. Then pipe on decoration with the following mix:
25g margarine, 50g plain flour, enough water to make it into a pipeable dough.

Bake on highish, (15 mins ish), then glaze with a syrup of milk and sugar.

Anzac cookies for Anzac Day breakfast

• 
  1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup plain flour
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup desiccated coconut
• 125g butter, chopped
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Oven to 160°C

Combine oats, flour, sugar and coconut in a bowl. Place butter, syrup and 2 tablespoons cold water in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir for 2 minutes or until butter has melted. Stir in bicarbonate of soda. Stir butter mixture into oat mixture.

Roll level tablespoons of mixture into balls. Place on trays, 5cm apart. Flatten slightly. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden (see note). Stand on trays for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve.

Breakfast cheesecake

Ah, this pic is from before I got my cheesecake moulds. Now I have proper loose-bottomed individual tins and don't have to use the ramekins any more. 

So it's ABOUT... 

• 500-600g ricotta
• possibly a couple of hundred grams of cottage cheese 
• sugar to taste 
• possibly some cream, a bit 
• Heaps of lemon zest
• about 4 heaped tsp of gelatine, dissolved in a bit of hot water 

Blitz 

Meanwhile in a cake-tin somewhere... 

• crushed Digestives have been mixed with melted butter and pressed into the base of some cake moulds. Should make about 12. 

Pour your delicious cheese mix into the top. Should set in a few hours in the fridge. 

Sometimes I leave a bit of space on top and do a third layer, with lemon or passionfruit syrup (not too syrupy, more tangy) into a thin jelly layer. Needs a bit more chilling time, obviously. Looks cool, extra little kick. 

Hot Cross buns

1 cup milk
1 egg
50g melted butter
50g caster sugar
450g flour
Mixed spices
Things you want in like currants, mango, chocolate chips - whatever
1.5tsp dried yeast

Into the breadmaker. Once the dough is ready, rolled into buns and risen, you'll need your piped crosses, made out of
25g margarine
50g flour (I had to add quite a bit of water because it wouldn't pipe.)

Once they're cooked for about 15 minutes at 200C, you'll need to glaze them with a warm mix of
30ml milk
3tbs caster sugar

Enjoy warm. They were a bit solid but jolly tasty.

Banana peanut butter honey toasties

Not much to describe, serve with greek yoghurt and liberal sprinkling of cinnamon sugar for breakfast.

Breakfast slice

in a loaf tin, with about
300g mix of oats, wheat germ, flour, mixed seeds, bran, etc
3 eggs
140ml oil
180g sugar

with a random mix of about a banana, a grated apple and a grated carrot, a dollop of molasses or treacle

Fruit cake spices

Takes a while to cook. Quite tasty. Serve with butter, possible jams.

Mr B (Breakfast/Snack Banana Slice)

Make a sponge in a slice tin, with 250g made up of flour, raw oats, and desiccated coconut and baking powder. Three eggs, 150g melted butter, vanilla essence. Mix, into lined slice tin, bake at 170c. When done, make a syrup in the microwave from a good dollop of golden syrup and a slosh of orange flower water. Spoon on top of the slice. Cool, cut into two layers. Lightly spoon cream over the base and layer with banana slices, replace top, dust with icing sugar. Rather tasty.

Scones

3 cups flour, 100g butter, 1.25 cups milk (approx), baking powder.

Crumb butter into flour and then mix into dough with milk. Cut into rounds, bake at 200c. Serve!

Blueberry pancakes

(These are actually with white and dark chocolate chips instead of blueberry)

250g flour with baking powder, 4 separated eggs, 200g milk, a bit of vanilla, 75g sugar, blueberries (200g? As you like them) and a good few scoops of greek yoghurt or similar.

Mix flour, egg yolks, sugar and milk, then whip the whites and fold in with blueberries. Fry pancakes in tablespoon-sized dollops. Ramsay suggests to serve them with fresh blueberries and yoghurt and honey. Kids liked them with maple syrup and/or nutella.

'Bed' rolls

a.k.a. Pizza Dough. For bread machine.
 1.25 cups water, glug of olive oil, 450g flour, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp sugar, 2 tsp yeast. Into bread machine and roll into little balls and bake in the oven when finished. Lovely for breakfast or as tiny dinner rolls.

Chocolate Berry Pastries

Apparently these are 'Breakfast Of The Year.' Easiest breakfast since sliced toast. 

Cut a sheet of frozen puff pastry into squares, put an appropriate amount of Nutella and berries in a corner, fold each into triangles, seal with a fork and bake on high. Dust with icing sugar and serve hot. 

Big discussion amongst the kids today as to how frequently they should be served for breakfast. Some thought they were so special they should be kept for once a month, others thought to hell with that let's have them at least once a week. So there you go. 

Apple Fritters

Great breakfast or snack - or even dessert.

Batter:
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 scant cup milk
vanilla
approx 40g melted butter
a few spoons of sugar

this will coat about 5 medium sized apples, though it's a bit of a toss-up. I would do about 1.5 apples per person so theoretically this would be enough for about 3 people. Depending on their level of hunger.

Peel and core the apples, slice them into reasonably thick slices ring-wise, microwave covered in cling film for about 5 minutes or until they're somewhat soft but not falling apart. Cool them a little before you coat in batter (besides, it's hard to handle otherwise).

Shallow fry, and sprinkle with icing sugar as they come out of the batch and go into the serving bowl (so you don't get a bunch of sugar on top at the end and none on the bottom). Serve with maple syrup and/or cream. Or even ice-cream.

Apple Crumble

Nothing wrong with serving apple crumble as a breakfast. It's fruit, carb, and sugar. Standard breakfast stuff. If you have ice cream with it it's dairy as well.

About 1.2kg apples
about 250g flour (plain)
about 180g sugars of whatever colour you feel inclined towards
about 130g butter
spices of your inclination (probably nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom rather than chili and paprika but anyway)

Crumble up the crumble mix. put spices in where you like. If your apples are sour or you need extra fillings, sweeten your peeled and chopped apples. Apple mix on bottom of dish, crumble on top. Well that's the traditional one anyway. Bake for about 40 mins in 180 degree oven. Serve with ice-cream or cream to hungry people for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Or just because it's Tuesday.

Damper

Makes a great breakfast. 'Course you need the 45 minutes to cook it so it's not a last-minute thing, but the putting-together is nice and easy. Basically just a big scone.

500g flour
90g butter
3tsp baking powder
sprinkle salt
1/3 cup sugar
250ml milk

Rub the flour, baking powder and butter together. Add sugar, salt, mix. Add milk, knife-mix lightly and quick-pat into a dough. Plop onto a baking tray like a large fat biscuit and bake at 190 for 45 minutes. Serve to hungry kids with butter, maple syrup and jams. They will be happy.

'Breakfast' Muffins

These muffins contain nothing but absolutely certified Breakfast all the way through.

Dry ingredients:

• 280g - made up of 4tbs unprocessed bran, a fistful of quick cook oats and the rest in plain flour. 
• 160g light brown sugar 
• 2.5 tsp baking powder 
• Spices to taste, like cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom. 

Wet ingredients:

• One large or two small each of mashed banana and fine grated carrot. 
• 3 eggs 
• 160ml oil (i.e. canola) 
• splash of cream

Mixy mixy, bake in desired muffin tins or whatever at about 160. Offer butter or honey to accompany if desired - not strictly necessary.

Lemonade scones

Very handy breakfast item.

2 cups self-raising flour
1/2 each of cream, lemonade
1/2 cup sugar

I like to add some milk powder 'cause it makes it creamier (I think). Half a cup maybe.

Combine, bake either in balls or you can roll cut them out like cookies. Only takes a few minutes. Great if you've run out of bread in the morning and can't be bothered to make pancakes.