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You can place trays of unbaked gougères into the freezer. Once frozen, place into snaplock bags. To bake from frozen, place onto lined baking trays. Bake 220°C for 8 minutes, then reduce temperature to 190°C and continue to bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.

For alcohol-free fruit cakes, replace the brandy with black tea or orange juice and proceed as per recipe. An alcohol-free version should be stored in the fridge and consumed within 1 month.

Individual steamed sticky date puddings: half-fill 12 lightly greased silicone cupcake moulds with mixture. Place into Varoma dish and onto Varoma tray (allow at least a 1-2 cm gap around the top of the cupcake moulds as the puddings will rise during steaming). Place 1500 g water into mixing bowl and place Varoma into position. Secure Varoma lid and steam 23-30 min/Varoma/speed 1, depending on the size of your puddings. Puddings are cooked when a wooden skewer inserted into the centre of a pudding comes out clean. Repeat with remaining batter in batches as required.

Thanks to one of our amazing New Zealand Thermomix® Consultants, Chloe Waru, for this recipe. It's beyond mouth-watering and will top your Christmas treat list, for sure.

To make your own ghee and garlic paste, please refer to the recipes on Cookidoo®.

Dough loves a humid environment to prove. Achieve great results by spraying lightly with water, then place in a warm location. You don't want the dough to dry out.

A festive way to serve dough balls, this fun, Christmas-tree-shaped bread looks impressive while being deceptively simple to prepare. Stuffed with cheese then topped with a herby butter, it's the perfect centrepiece for your Christmas celebration.

You can substitute the ricotta cheese with quark cheese.

This Challah, Milk Bread, or Zopf, is traditionally served in Switzerland on Sunday mornings for breakfast. A Thermomix® favorite and with good reason. An impressive braided bread, not only beautiful but delicious too. Soft and slightly sweet. Makes exceptional sandwiches or delicious with butter and jam for breakfast.

These traditional ginger biscuits are commonly found in Cornwall. The term ‘fairing’ originally applied to any edible treat sold at a fair, although it is now synonymous with these crunchy, cracked ginger biscuits.

This recipe makes 8 large doughnuts but you could make 10-12 smaller doughnuts if preferred.

Dip your fingertips in a little oil before making indentations in the dough in step 6.

Unfed sourdough starter is the starter you would otherwise discard before each feeding. It is mature and active but does not pass the "float test". Sourdough starter recipes are a great way to take the starter you'd otherwise discard and use it to create something delicious.

This Challah, Milk Bread, or Zopf, is traditionally served in Switzerland on Sunday mornings for breakfast. A Thermomix® favorite and with good reason. An impressive braided bread, not only beautiful but delicious too. Soft and slightly sweet. Makes exceptional sandwiches or delicious with butter and jam for breakfast.

For a sweeter roll: add 80 g honey instead of sugar and reduce salt by ½ tsp.

To make your own tandoori paste, please refer to the recipe on Cookidoo®.

If dough becomes warm and difficult to work with, place covered dough into the fridge until firm enough to handle.

For a neater cheesecake, line the base and the sides of the springform tin separately. For a classic rustic look, press two large sheets of baking paper into the base and sides of the springform tin, so that the baking paper looks messy and crinkled.

To make your own condensed milk, refer to the recipe on Cookidoo®.

This dessert is designed to still have a liquid consistency in the centre. If you would prefer a more ‘molten’ consistency (slightly thicker), please see the Molten chocolate cake recipe here on Cookidoo®. Alternatively, for a more brownie-like consistency, see the Fudgey chocolate cake recipe. The same ingredients – three different options!

The time it takes to whip cream depends on the temperature of the ingredients and the fat content of the cream - the more fat it contains, the easier it is to whip and the stiffer the consistency it will achieve. The optimum temperature is 4-6°C. For better results, you can cool the mixing bowl.

This recipe is a favorite of Diamond Club Member, Vanessa Musi .