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. 

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. 

Herby cheesey dumplings for stews

Cook these for 20 minutes on top of ready stews.

300g self-raising flour, 100g butter, 2/3 cups milk, pinch salt, cheese and herbs of choice. I like LOTS of fresh herbs, rough chopped. Rub flour and butter, mix into dough with milk, add cheese and herbs. Roll into balls. Can cook like little scones for other applications. Such as snarfing down with butter and ham for lunch. Kid favourite.

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.