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Supercharge Your Thermomix Baking!
In Episode 136, we invited the clever Sophia Handschuh from Thermomix Baking Blogger back on the podcast to give some tips on making your baking a little bit healthier. We are always interested to hear what healthy means to different people, and as baking isn't traditionally considered ‘healthy', we were interested to discover Sophia's perspective… because, we know that if we ran a baking blog we would be the size of houses! Sophia lets us in on her secrets to staying healthy while she's baking amazing cakes, tarts, breads, pastries and the like.
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Like so many of us, Sophia found that her extended family had a wide range of dietary needs, so when catering for family functions she needed to think about how she could make her baking more suitable for a wider variety of people. That's how ‘Supercharged’ came to be. From vegetarian to vegan, to allergies to paleo. It’s no longer as easy as it used to be to feed your extended family and friends, right? Supercharged reflects these changes with different options for flours, sugars and fats.
Sophia shared how she uses discipline to not devour everything she bakes, and aims to add more nutrition to her baking by the ingredients she chooses.
Sophia's Thermomix Flourless Beetroot Chocolate Tart is a great example of that!
We wanted to know… Why beetroot? In a dessert??? Sophia explains why beetroot is a great match for chocolate and the benefits it can give, not just by adding more nutrition, but to the colour, texture and taste.
Exciting news!
Sophia is generously giving away a copy of Supercharged to one lucky listener. All you need to do is check out the image of the contents below and tell us in the comments which recipe you would make first.
Want to know more about what Sophia is doing?
If you’re reading or listening to this podcast as it’s released, Sophia has a series of webinars starting this Saturday. This webinar is all about making healthy wraps for school or work.
PLUS – Sophia has a new book coming out this month called Tea Time. If you’re in London you can join Sophia LIVE for the launch of the book or you can get your copy on her online store.
So what would you like to make from Supercharged? Leave us a note in the comments below! Entries close midnight (AEST) March 31, 2017.
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Ohhhh too many to choose from but I’d have to say the healthy lemon tart as it’s my husbands absolute favourite and I won’t feel guilty eating it either as after all it is a “healthy lemon tart” 😉
Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches…they sound so naughty 🙂
The Spiced Lamb Meatballs is my dish of choice – after all, Lambs love lamb!
Definitely the breakfast muffins- so handy for my long drive into work.
My husband has been sooo disciplined about losing weight over the last 12 months. He lost 21kgs and his target is another 5kgs but is struggling. The Thermomix has been invaluable over this period, but i am running out of ideas to help. Our aim has been not to use diet plans as we figured that reverting to normal causes weight gain. Supercharged book, with the likes of the tumeric milk and the super greens sound like they would be great for the metabolism.
Healthy Lemon tart for me!!! Yum!!!!
So many choices!! I’d be going for the Oaty Cookies first though as I’m always looking for lunchbox food that isn’t packed full of sugars!!
Too many to choose from, the first thing I would make would be very choccy ice cream????
Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches !!! My mum taught me to always have a healthy sandwich for lunch every day. Now Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches will certainly add a new dimension to my lunches!! Who would have thought, obeying mum and enjoying a sando
Definitely the healthu lemon tart.
I’d have to say the one that appeals to me most is the Broccoli Quinoa Bites. They sound delicious and I’m always on the look out for recipes which include more vegetables in my diet! These sound yum and I’m sure my family would love to try them! 🙂
The picture of the Guilt Free Key Lime Pie looks amazing!
I would love to make the Breakfast muffins I have so much trouble getting my 10 year old to eat breakfast I think he would love these????
I believe that all foods are improved by being placed in a sambo! I want to know what these perfect sandwich toppers are!
Flourless beetroot cake I think. Used to make a chocolate beetroot cake before and loved it so a healthy revamp on this would be amazing.
Spiced carrot cake for sure. YUMM
Amazingly, just before I opened this page I decided I would make an afternoon turmeric tea for the anti inflammatory properties. Now, I see turmeric golden milk on the recipe list! So, that is what I would make first!
I’m a sucker for carrot cake, so if I could find one that was healthy, ???????? I would be baking it every week!
It would have to be the flourless beetroot chocolate cake. My mouth was watering listening to Sophia taking about it on the podcast. I’m sure you could have bigger slices because it has vegetable in it, can’t possibly be bad for you!
I’d have to make the very choccy ice cream or the healthy lemon tart for starters!
Coconut buckwheat granola, because I’m always looking for ideas to vary my family breakfast menu. It is our most important meal since we are all hungry and all together at that time. After that, everybody’s day takes over!!! Thank you, this entire list looks absolutely awesome.
Spicy carrot cake
Definitely the Tumeric Golden Milk – I love it and have yet to find a good recipe!
Guilt free Key Lime Pie – take me to the tropics ????????
SO many tasty’s !!! I would love to sample ! and make the Spicy carrot cake
I too am going for the healthy lemon tart!! That one jumped out at me straight away and I would love to test it out!!
So many to choose from….but probably the baked falafel as my daughter has recently gone vegetarian. X
Probably the breakfast muffins and lemon tart would be the first things I would make. I have a 10 year old that would love breakfast muffins.
Flourless Beetroot Chocolate tart
Who could not love Very Choccy Icecream? This is a standout for me and my very choccy taste buds. I’d love to make this for me and my chocolate loving husband.
Yummy! Coconut Buckwheat Granola
I’d like to make the Spiced Carrot Cake.
I would love to make the very choccy ice cream as my son loves his ice cream
I can’t go past The Choccy blues, we all have those days ????
Spiced carrot cake for me!
Oaty cookies!
On a Berry Good Day I would defs make those Banana Sesame Cookies right after the Flourless Beetroot Chocolate Tart-yummmmmmoooooo!
Gluten free pasta dough, but they all sound delicious.
Healthy lemon tart … because it is healthy
I would go with the Guilt Free Key Lime Pie. No guilt…..
Lots of lovely sounding things to try. I wouldn’t mind trying the gf pasta dough. It’s been a while since we’ve had pasta and the natives are restless.
I love lemon! I know I would start with desserts first , doesn’t everybody??? Lol So I would whip up the Helathy Lemon Tart! I bet it’s delish!
So many great recipes but being a sheep farmer I’m going to say the Spiced Lamb Meatballs-they sound yum!
So many great recipes but being a sheep farmer I’m going to say the Spiced Lamb Meatballs-they sound yum!
Healthy Lemon Tart is my pick. ????
I would make a Berry Good Day, it sounds like you can’t go wrong!!
OMG too many to choose from but I’d say Pumpernickel Jars because they sound sooooo intriguing!!! But then I’d may guilt free key lime pies because I’m living in America at the moment and everyone loves a great key lime pie!!
I would love to try the Healthy Lemon Tart. Thanks for the chance to win!
Pumpernickel jars would be the first thing I’d make; as it reminisces childhood memories!
Broccoli Quinoa Bites for me. My kids love their green trees. This would add a little interest to them for a change.
I agree with everyone – all the recipes sound so yum!
But if I had to pick one to try first it would be the ‘Goodnight’ because I’m intrigued as to what it is!
Broccoli Quinoa bites
The spiced lamb meatballs sound delicious. Amongst all those tantalising sweet treats, these appeal to me in the savoury stakes 🙂
Great podcast, guys! I’m always looking for easy dinner ideas and Baked Falafel burgers already sounds like a family favourite in the making!
I’ve never made a lemon tart, so I think I’d go with that.
Those pumpernickle jars look fabulous, will try those first.
Everything looks amazing! I would definitely make the Broccoli Quinoa Bites! I think my children would love these! As would the adults. A winner for all at the table.
Oh, they all sound devine. I’m a bit strange and have a savoury rather than sweet tooth, so the spiced lamb meatballs or I’m curious about the cauliflower pizza. I don’t have any gluten issues, but moving towards less carbs – geez it’s hard, though!
Thanks for the reminder about this great competition – I love Sophia’s recipes – SO hard to choose, but I’d love to try the Broccoli Quinoa Bites, the Spiced Lamb Meatballs, or the Baked Felafel Burgers… Yummo!!! well done Sophia and Bec & Joe -keep up the great work…
I would love to make the Spiced Carrot Cake! it sounds delicious!
This makes me excited for Sophia’s tour in November that I’m attending!!!!
Woohoo! It will be great Alana!
i would make the flourless beetroot chocolate tart
Yes please!!!! After my bathroom pipe burst and flooded my walk in robe this morning, and with all the clean up from it, I really could use a win. Just thankful I was home because of the effects of the recent cyclone, from work, to deal with it, even if I am not getting paid for time off, Yep, a win would be good
Yes please!!!! After my bathroom pipe burst and flooded my walk in robe this morning, and with all the clean up from it, I really could use a win. Just thankful I was home because of the effects of the recent cyclone, from work, to deal with it, even if I am not getting paid for time off, Yep, a win would be good, the beetroot tart sure sounds intriguing and beetroot is so good for you!
There is so much too delicious food in the index but I think it would have to be the Gluten Free Pasta, as not had pasta for a long long time and I do miss it sometimes!
I would make the floor less beetroot tart!
Sounds very interesting! I would love to win this book for my 11 year old daughter as she is gluten and dairy free I feel like is missed out of a lot of things!!
A whole lotta loaf sounds like a good place to start, but so many of these recipes sound appealing!
Love to try the Lime Key Pie using our home grown limes before working my way through he rest.
I’d definitely want to try the pumpernickel jars – they sound like a good breakfast option.