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Head Honcho Cafe in Prahran

Located in Chatham Street, Prahran Head Honcho café is a quaint corner shop with a mild western theme. It has a relaxed vibe along with great coffee and some delicious toasties.

Drumplings Bottomless Brunch

To kick start our chilly Saturday we visited Drumplings for their Bottomless Brunch menu.

Delicious Breakfast Created with Tassal Salmon Rashers

This post is sponsored by Tassal

In our household, we love nothing more than a delicious Sunday breakfast. So when this basket of fantastic edible goodies landed in our kitchen, we knew we were in for a feast.

Monkey Bread

Can you smell this amazing cinnamon sweet bread? If only there were a scratch n sniff screen.

This yummy treat is Monkey Bread.

I made this for my kids during the school holidays.

Have you had Monkey Bread before? It is balls of dough smothered in a brown butter sauce and cinnamon sugar then after it has been baked you cover it in a sweet, sticky vanilla glaze. It’s delicious, gooey and oh so good!

You need to prepare the dough for this recipe the day before, and you put it in the fridge. Overnight it rises in the fridge so in the morning you just need to roll the dough into little balls.

Monkey Bread

Recipe Type: Sweet Bread

Author: Simone

Prep time: 9 hours

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 9 hours 30 mins

Serves: 14

Ingredients

[u]DOUGH[/u]
2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 1/4 cups warm full cream milk
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon salt
5 cups all-purpose flour
[u]COATING[/u]
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
2/3 cup light or dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
[u]VANILLA GLAZE[/u]
1 cup (120g) icing sugar
3 Tablespoons (45ml) heavy cream (or milk for a less creamy texture)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions

Make the dough: In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Stir it around a bit and let it sit for about 2 minutes. Add the milk, melted butter, sugar, eggs, salt, and 3 cups of flour. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes (using a dough hook if you have a stand mixer or using a hand mixer). By hand add enough remaining flour to form a firm dough. About 5 cups total.
Turn the dough onto a floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Do not over-knead, which will yield a tough, chewy bread. The dough is ready when it is smooth and when you can poke it with a finger and it springs back. Form dough into a smooth ball and place into a large greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. I greased the bowl with cooking spray. Cover tightly with plastic wrap or aluminum foil and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
Make the coating: melt 1/2 cup of butter in a small bowl. Mix granulated sugar and cinnamon together in another small bowl. Set aside. You will use the rest of the butter, brown sugar, and vanilla later.
Spray a 10-12 cup bundt pan with cooking spray. I used a large baking tin and lined it with baking paper. Set aside. Punch the cold dough down very gently to allow the air bubbles to release. Pull apart pieces and roll into balls, about 1.25 inches in diameter. You will need 40-45 balls total, so be modest with their size. Dip each ball, one by one, in the melted butter and then generously roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture to coat them. You may need more cinnamon-sugar depending how heavy you coat each ball. Arrange them in the bundt pan as you go. Cover the pan and allow dough balls to rise again for about 45 minutes at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 180°C/150°C fan forced. Melt the remaining 1/4 cup of butter and whisk in the brown sugar and vanilla until combined. Pour the buttery mixture over the dough balls in the bundt pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown on top. Cover loosely with foil if the top browns too quickly. Cool for 5-10 minutes and invert onto a large serving plate.
Top with the glaze. Simply whisk all of the glaze ingredients together and pour over the bread. You may either cut the bread into generous slices or let everyone pick off the gooey pieces themselves. Monkey bread tastes best served on the same day, but will stay fresh for 3 days if stored covered at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Notes

This recipe was adapted from [url href=”http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/06/30/homemade-monkey-bread-aka-cinnamon-roll-bites/”]Sally’s Baking Addiction[/url]

So what do you think of this yummy gooey warm goodness?

My kids were hanging around the kitchen waiting for the Monkey Bread to cool so I could drizzle it with the glaze. You just want to make sure the Monkey Bread has cooled slightly as you don’t want the glaze to melt.

Monkey Bread is a pull apart of sticky bites of goodness. We devoured this warm, and we found it was best eaten on the day. And just a little warning: there might be some licking of sticky fingers.

Mum, can we have some more, please….

Happy baking!

October 28, 2014

2

Baking, Breakfast, Kids, Recipes

French Toast Bites

I think these French Toast Bites have to be one of my favourite breakfasts at the moment. They are simple to make and just use a few ingredients. I used a loaf of home-made bread that I had baked the day before. I cut it into nice thick slices and then into bite size pieces. You cover them in an egg and milk mix then brown in a frying pan. Once cooked they get covered in a sugar and cinnamon mix. The first two bites didn’t make it to the plate as I had to test them!

French Toast Bites

Recipe Type: Breakfast

Author: Simone

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 25 mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients

A loaf of bread ( I used my day old home-made bread. I cut about 4 thick slices then cut them into bite size pieces)
3 large eggs
1/4 – 1/3 cup of milk
1-2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, for greasing the pan
Cinnamon and sugar mix
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar

Instructions

Slice your bread into 1 – 1.5 inch slices. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs and 1/4 cup of milk until combined. The mixture should be of a thick consistency. Pour in a shallow dish or plate, whichever is easiest for you.
On another plate, mix together the sugar and cinnamon and set aside.
Soak the bread slices in the mixture for about 2 minutes on each side. Meanwhile, over medium-low heat, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying pan. Place however many slices of bread that fit the pan and cook until golden brown, about 3 minutes on each side. Melt more butter in skillet pan for the next batch, if needed.
Once each French bite is cooked, you can then transfer to the sugar mix and coat until covered. Then place onto a serving plate.
Serve immediately with butter, maple syrup, powdered sugar, and/or fruit.

Notes

This recipe was adapted from [url href=”http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/04/15/mini-french-toast-bites/”]Sally’s Baking Addiction[/url]

The kids had maple syrup and icing sugar on theirs while I added some fruit to mine. After everyone had finished breakfast, there were a few left, so I just left them out on a plate and every time we went by the plate one of us grabbed another one. They were very nice just on their own without any toppings.

I am going to be making these again soon, and I will take some more photos to show you how easy they are to prepare. I was short of photos for this yummy recipe as the school holidays was full of sleep ins and late breakfasts. The kids were very hungry the day these were made, and they asked “do you have to take photos, we are hungry!”

Happy baking!

What is your favourite breakfast at the moment?

October 13, 2014

10

Breakfast, Kids, Recipes

Pancakes

My kids love pancakes. If they could, they would have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A while ago when it was Pancake Tuesday, I made pancakes for dinner, and we had all the trimmings. The kids thought that was ace and have since requested when can we have that again!

I am always on the look out for a yummy pancake recipe. I have tried a few and have even tried putting together my own recipe. I know when the pancakes haven’t turned out as the kids will tell me that they weren’t that good, or they were better than the last pancakes I made. They are very good at telling me yay or nay. I have my own taste testers!

I came upon this recipe while looking on Pinterest and decided to give this one a go. Well, the pancakes turned out great. They were fluffy and soft. They rose quite well and tasted really good. We like our pancakes fluffy and to have a bit of height. The kids said that these were the best pancakes that I have made so far.

Pancakes

Recipe Type: Breakfast

Author: Simone

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients

2 cups plain flour
¼ cup sugar
2¼ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups milk
¼ cup unsalted butter, melted

Instructions

Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to a large bowl and mix well to combine.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs and milk together with a whisk. Pour this into the dry ingredients and mix until combined but do not overmix.
Then slowly pour in the melted butter and gently mix in.
The batter should still have lumps.
Heat a pan over medium-low heat and add ⅓ cup batter. Cook pancake 2-3 minutes on first side, until edges look slightly dry and bubbles begin to form on top. Flip the pancake and cook another 1-2 minutes.
Serve with maple syrup, some fresh fruit or whatever you fancy!

Notes

This recipe was adapted from [url href=”http://lovegrowswild.com/2014/03/buttermilk-pancakes/”]Love Grows Wild[/url]

Enjoy!

Do you have a favourite pancake recipe that you use?

October 9, 2014

11

Breakfast, Product reviews

Breakfast With Uncle Tobys

*This is a Nuffnang product talk for Uncle Tobys Quick Sachet Oats (all opinions and text are my own)From Monday to Friday every morning is chaotic in our house. The kids wake up at 6.00am, and that’s when our day starts. There is packing lunch boxes, making everyone’s breakfast, getting dressed, brushing teeth and combing hair. Sometimes everything runs smoothly, and I even get to sit down and eat breakfast with them. But there are days when it seems like the clock is in fast forward mode, and it’s all go go go! When those days come about, I wish we had a quick and easy breakfast that the kids could make themselves.I was given some Uncle Tobys Oats Quick Sachets to try and I am so glad we gave them a go. They are a convenient and tasty oats options, perfect for busy individuals and families. The kids got their bowls and spoons out. They grabbed a sachet of quick oats, cut the top off and poured the oats into a bowl. They poured some milk in, gave it a stir and popped them in the microwave on high for 90 seconds. Once done, the kids gave them another mix and allowed to cool before digging in. We all found them easy to prepare and mess free. The kids really loved them and wanted to go back for a second bowl. They have a great fruity taste and have no artificial colours or flavours. Great for our chaotic mornings!