Step 13: Croissant, shall we?

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Can you guess what is the cat doing? If you guessed that the cat is rolling dough then you're right! We are making something from France today. hehe Well, actually today's entry is about Croissant. So lets get started. you will need :

Ingredient 

400 gm diamond flour

8 gm yeast

20 gm castor sugar

5 gm salt

6 gm bread softener

20 gm butter

200 gm croissant butter

1 nozz egg

steps :

1. Add in the flour, salt, sugar, softener and yeast. put the dry ingredients in an order and do not mix it all together .yet. Because the salt will kill the yeast. using a mixer, mix well. then add in the butter. mix well.

2. Pour in the milk, a little at a time. and the dough is ready. neat the dough and let rest in the freezer. 

3. After the dough has harden, neat the dough until it is square. put the croissant butter in the center and fold. let to rest in the freezer for 20 mins

4. Take the dough out and neat till it's thin and the first fold we called it as the single fold. let to rest in the freezer for 20 mins.

5. Take the dough out and neat till it's thin and proceed with the second fold which is the double fold or the book fold. let to rest in the freezer for 20 mins.

6. Repeat single fold. let to rest 20 mins. repeat double fold let to rest 20 minutes.

7. Neat the bread till its thin and cut in triangles.

8. Put on a baking tray that have been greased with shortening and bake for 10 minutes for 180 degree Celsius.

9. After it is bake, put on cooling rack to cooled and served.

Enjoy and Good luck!

Step 12: Apple pie, will it be your first pastry?

Well hello! So how was it? mind sharing with me your progress? Thank you. Okay, continue! So apple pie? are you ready? But before that do you know where apple pie are from? Well, they are from England. you will need :

Apple filling 

1/2 sugar

1/2 brown sugar

3 tbsp all-purpose flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

7 cups thinly peeled tart apples

1 tbsp lemon juice

Sweet pastry

250 gm butter

125 gm icing sugar

2 nozz egg

417 gm red rose flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

Steps: 

1. Add in the butter and sugar, beat until Medium Fluffy.

2. Add in the eggs and vanilla, mix well.

3. Add in the red rose flour and salt, mix well.

4. Dough is done. Let the dough rest in the chiller for 15 - 20 mins. 

5. In a small bowl, combine the sugars, flour and spices, set aside. In a large bowl, toss apples with lemon juice. Add sugar mixture to coat.

6. line a 9 inch pie plate with bottom crust, trim pastry evenly. Fill with apple mixture; dot with butter. Roll out remaining partey to fit top of pie. . Place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in pastry.

7. Beat egg whites until foamy, brush over pastry. Sprinkle with sugar. Cover edges loosely with foil. 

8. Bake at 375 degree Celsius for 25 mins. Remove foil and bake 20 - 25 mins longer or untl crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack. 

Enjoy :)

Step 11: How to make your first bread?

Hello! so, your first bread hah? I bet you must be excited. of course you are. Okay lets start! But don't worry, it's not that complicated. It's a piece of cake! You will need :

Ingredient A

500 gm Diamond flour 

75 gm castor sugar

1/2 tbsp salt

17 gm yeast

1/2 tbsp bread softener

1 tbsp milk flour

Ingredient B

125 gm water

1 nozz egg

1 tbsp condensed milk

1/2 tbsp yellow coloring

Ingredient C

50 gm butter

30 gm shortening

Ingredient D 

2 nozz boiled potato

steps :

1. Using a mixer put in all the dry ingredient (A) and add butter and shortening (C) and mix well. A+C

2. Add in the Boiled potato in the dough *make sure that the boiled potato is cooled before being added*

3. Add in the egg. mix

4. Pour in the water, a little at a time. and make sure the water are cold.

5. Add in the rest of ingredient B

The dough is done when the texture is elastic. Neat the dough until it soften and let it rest under a wet towel for 10 minutes. Do not let it over rest. Neat the dough after resting and size it according to your preferable size. and bake in the oven for 18 minutes at 160 degree Celsius.

When done cool it on a cooling rack and you can serve it. Enjoy and Good luck :)

Step 10: Chocolate chips Cookies?

Hello! How's your cheesecake doing? you did great right? I know you did and because of that, im going to continue with the next step which is the chocolate chip cookies. Everyone love cookies! cookies is a drop cookies originated from the United States and features chocolate chips as its distinguish ingredient. and chocolate chip cookies is very easy to make. And I'm going to show you how it's done. For this recipe, you'll need :-

Ingredient 

125 gm butter

1/2 cup icing sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 nozz egg

1 3/4 cup self rising flour

1/2 tsp salt

125 gm chocolate chip

60 gm walnut (chopped)

steps:

1. Beat the butter and sugar (both) until fluffy. add in the egg, salt and vanilla.

2. Add in the flour, walnut and chocolate chips, a little at a time.  (do not add all in one time)

3. Bake for 130 degree Celsius for 30 minutes.

4. When it is done, put on cooling rack to cooled and serve it with tea.

This is my mummy's recipe and I have been eating them since I was little. i loved her cookies and I'm sharing the goodness with you. Enjoy :)

Step 9: Oreo cheesecake, your second cake!

Hey there, glad that you are still here. so I guess you are enjoying my entries. And today's entry is all about oreo cheesecake. Who on earth doesn't love cheesecake?everyone does! You willl need :

Ingredient A

250 gm Philadelphia cheese

60 gm castor sugar

60 gm corn flour

60 gm butter

6 nozz egg yolks

2 tsp lemon zest

2 tbsp lemon juice 

1/2 tbsp vanilla

1 cup UHT Whipping cream

Ingredient B

60 gm castor sugar

6 nozz egg whites

1/8 tsp cream of tartar

Ingredient C

1 pack crushed oreo

30 gm melted butter

Steps :

1. Beat in the cheese, sugar and butter until fluffy.

2. Add in the egg yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice and vanilla, mix well.

3. Add in the corn flour and the whipping cream mix well.

4. Beat Ingredient B until light and fluffy (make a meringue, medium peak)

5. After the meringue is ready, mix it SLOWLY in the cheese mixture using a spatula.

6. Mix oreo and the butter all together to make the based of the cake. 

7. Prepare a baking tin with the oreo based and pour in the cheese mixture and put some whole oreo in the mixture so that it will look like a design. 

8. Bake the cake using a water bath method (laid the tin on a tray and pour hot water around the baking tin)

9. Bake for 180 degree celsius for 1 hour.

enjoy :)

Step 8: Meringue?

Hello there, So how was your first cake? I know it was a success. congratulations! You just made your first cake! I am so excited for you. okay now, enough about that. Lets focus for today. Today's entry is about Meringue. How to pronounce meringue? It's Me-rang.

What is a meringue actually? Meringue is a type of desert or it can also be a mixture. Basically it is made from whipped egg whites and sugar and whipped till fluffy and white. In some recipes other ingredients are added in the mixture such as vinegar, cream of tartar [23], corn flour or vanilla to make their own kind of dessert.

And this is how cream of tartar looks like ;

Who really invented the meringue? Well, it has been claimed that meringue was invented in the Swill Village in Meiringen [21] and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini in the 18th century.

The question here is how to make the perfect meringue? It's easy! when you are prepping the egg whites make sure that no water and egg yolks [22] gets into the whites. If so, the egg white will not fluff and your meringue will be a disaster.

Soft peak medium peak or stiff peak? These are the types of meringue mixture. While in Giatmara, my teacher taught me really well about meringue. It's very easy and very quick! I will show you a picture of how the types of meringue is

Well, that's about it for today. See you later and have a good day! 

Step 7: Your first cake!

Welcome back, so are you ready for you first cake? I know that you have been patiently waiting for this day to come. Today you will learn how to bake a chocolate sponge cake. Well, lets get started. you will need :

Ingredient

- 5 nozz eggs

- 166 gm castor sugar

- 133 gm cake flour

- 33.33 gm cocoa

- 66.6 gm water

-16.6 gm ovelette (cake stabilizer)

- 83.33 gm Butter (melted)

That is all that you'll need for you first cake. but hey, that not it. Noe, I'm going to teach you on how to make it. now that is something right? Okay. 

Here is how it goes, mix in all of the ingredients together in a mixing bowl except for the melted butter. this method is called "the all-in- method" 

Using a mixer, mix all well until fluffy. Once it is all fluffy and white, mix in the melted butter and using the spatula and stir slowly. And the cake mixture is done :)

Before pouring the mixture into the baking tins,  grease the baking tins with butter or shortening [20] so that when the cake is bake it won't stick to the baking tins.

Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 175 degree Celsius. Put in the mixture into the oven and bake it at 175 degree Celsius for 45 minutes. *don't forget to change the baking tins side while it is baking in the oven*

Once the cake is bake to full perfection, take it out from the baking tins and cool it on the cooling rack. And have a taste when it's cooled, Good luck! :)