Friands Friendly Tips

Friands could be the simplest petit four to make, and could the trickiest to make. It only needs 5 ingredients,  a mixing bowl and a fork. But... the mixing process cant involved any aeration, else the middle of the Friands will form up a small hill after baking.

A friend of mine gave me some suggestions, I thought it would be nice to share with you guys who like this little beautiful dessert as well.

Sugarless English Scone with Dates

Made some scones for my Saturday breakfast today, turns out beautifully and delicious in less than an hour. While the scones were still baking beautifully in the oven, made some strawberry jam to go with the scones. Yummy yummy~

And, the extra raw scone dough, I have cut them to the shape i want, individually airtight wrapping them, then freeze them in the freezer for enjoyment on some other day.

Healthy β-carotene Carrot Bread

I have the habit of drinking carrot juice, however the remaining after squeezing out the juice seems to be too wasteful to be thrown away. And, found a way to make use of it, to turn it into a high fibre, high β-Carotene Carrot Bread~

Dark Chocolate Ganache

This chocolate ganache is good to be used as icing on cake, like Sacher Torte, or use as filling in Macarons,  or coating on Eclairs, or just as dipping sauce for your finger biscuit.

Sweet Short Pastry - Pate Frolle

A crisp sweet pastry with almond scented. This is the best short pastry I love so far. I have used it to make Almond Sponge Strawberry Tart.

Sweet Short Pastry - Pate Sablee

I got this recipe from a friend who is working in an Italian restaurant, the pastry turns out beautifully. Although it is a bit soft too handle, but it is worth the effort.

Vanilla Macaron with Dark Chocolate Ganache

Egg shell thin like outer layer. crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside with dark chocolate ganache filling... You must love this macaron.... ^^

Vanilla Creme Patissiere

This recipe is to go with my choux puffs~ If you like to have other flavours adding to it, chocolate or coffee or even green tea would go perfect with it. Or instead of Sugar, use Honey, it will give nice texture and smell~~ Yummy yummy~~

Choux Cream Puffs

I always love the choux cream puffs in Japan, because it is so delicious and not expensive. The shop I used to go is called "Cozy Corner", they have the choux cream puffs with creme patissiere or ice cream, or even Jumbo size choux cream puffs too! Just loving it!

And... today, I am making my own version of Choux Cream Puffs~ And, this recipe is suitable to make eclairs too

Salmon & Spinach Tart

For savoury, kanpai~

Blind Baked Short Crust Pastry

This pastry is good for sweet or savory tarts, enjoy it.

Golden Pumpkin Ice Cream

I love Pumpkin~~~

Strawberry Swiss Roll Cake

With the price of strawberries keep reducing, let`s make some strawberry swiss-roll cake and picnic under the sun~

Ice Cream Making Tips

Temper the egg yolk
It means slowly adding hot liquid to egg yolks and whisk at the same time.

Ice cream custard should be cook till it is thick enough to coat the back of wooden spoon. If you draw your finger along the spoon, the trail should not fill in immediately.

French Espresso Ice Cream

I am sure you will like this...

Pure White Angel Roll Cake with Strawberies

Found a good way to make use the left over egg whites from ice cream making...

Kabocya Pumpkin Muffin

Here in South Melbourne Market, there is a store selling really good pumpkin, tastes sweet and crunchy~ Maybe it is good for making sweets as well?  ^^

Raisin Yogurt Breakfast Muffin

With 150g of yogurt yields 8muffins, this could be a good and quick breakfast or afternoon quick bites or when you have some yogurt left over in the fridge...

Nutella Ice Cream without Cream Added

Got this recipe from a friend, it is yummy yummy~ no cream needed, just Nutella and milk and eggs~

Healthy Carrot Cake with Pineapple and Almond

Finally! I got my carrot cake successful! And, I received some marzipan from a friend, so created a few baby carrots for deco...

Here`s the recipe, enjoy baking~

Cream Cheese Tartlet

You will love the taste of it, a little sour, a little sweetness~

~Enjoy baking~

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bRead bAd result...

Collapsed before or just into Oven
- gluten is not well developed
- insufficient kneading
- short of salt
- prolonged fermentation
- too much softener in dough such as butter, liquid or sugar
- too much vibration during transportation

Ingredients for Bread

High Gluten Flour - also known as Bread Flour, with the protein contain 12.5%-13.5%.

Low Gluten Flour - Protein contain 8%-10%

Wheat Flour - high in fiber and Vitamin B.

Master Chef Master Class Pear Frangipane Tart

Watched this on Master Chef, and fell in love with it...
Try and make one, you will love it too...

Brioche

Has been busy with school exams... Time to get back on my baking practice.

1st time to see "Brioche" in a cafe, had no idea what is that, how it taste like, so, went home, did some research and this is my Brioche... (personally, I am not the fan of it, but it looks fun and kids like it).

Kiwi Fruit Tartlet with Creme Patissierie

This is my 1st attempt to make a fruit tart, and I forgotten to poke the base of the tart before baking them! So, the base of the tart bubbled up, but luckily the side turns out to be quite pretty, agree?  

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OZ Outback Cake in 80sec

This is today's experiment, OZ Outback Chocolate Cake in 80secs! Tasting good

Here are the details.............

Red Wine Poached Pear with Cinnamon

As pear getting cheaper in the market, and some extra pocket money. So, decided to go with this dessert, which is my 1st attempt with alcohol....... ^^ Wooowoo

Almond Cookies

Gyouza

Puffy Souffle

Don't you think they are cute? Just made this for tonight's dessert as per photographer's request. Recipe will be follow up~ Enjoy the picture for the moment~ ^^

Here's the recipe for 3servings...

Yaki Anpan

In Japanese language, yaki means fry or grill, pan is bread, and anko is the red bean paste. When all words combined together, it means Pan Fried Red Bean Bread.

I have cooked some red bean paste yesterday, so today is the day to make this bread.

Non Fried Potato Rings

Today, after coming back from school, the crave for potato chips was killing me.

As I searching thru the kitchen, I can only find potatoes in the kitchen!

So, created something to kill my potato chips drive as well as do some pipping practice~

Here is my potato rings (not chips anymore)...

Looks yummy and taste yummy~ And... it is healthy as there are no preservatives, artificial flavoring nor fried.

The ingredients are not more than five, enjoy~

Fresh Pizza Dough

What a long day when you have no plan on your holiday... Made a chiffon cake for breakfast with home made Apple+Orange+Carrot Juice, made cookies for afternoon tea, and making pizza for my dinner. 

Kitchen, oven and mixer are really working hard today for me. Arigatou!

Black Tea Cookies

What a boring afternoon... Let`s make some tea cookies for my afternoon tea.

And.... here are my cookies for afternoon tea.

You`re Hot Bread

I was reading Japanese cooking website today and came across different kind bread recipes that use "yu-dane".  So, tried to translate it to English using Google Translate, and it turns out to be "You are Hot"! Ha, what a cute Translator.

This Black Sesame Bread was made by adjusting the recipe from this site in order to use "You`re Hot" in my bread. http://www.rakuten.ne.jp/gold/tubasa55/recipe/bread/1_5kin_goma.html

See the pictures and it really tells you that it is HOT, and able to make the bread so soft and fluffy~~~

Genki White Bread

A genki day start with home made bread for breakfast, deeply falling in love in baking my own bread...

Throat Lozenge Lemon Ginger Sorbet

The weather is so unpredictable these days, it is like four seasons in a day, I guess this dessert should be suitable for this kind of weather, refreshing lemon like spring, hot ginger like summer, cold sorbet like winter and nothing for autumn as I am not good at "poem making". LOL

Lesson Learnt from Bread Fermentation

Always ended up with hard stone bread or the dough collapsed as soon as they are in the oven... Finally my FACA (Failure Analysis and Corrective Action) found the root cause and solve the problem... 

Goma Pan

Goma is Sesame in Japanese language. Basically Japanese uses Goma almost in everything, from cooking oil to entree, main course and even dessert like ice cream. 

I have tried white goma ice cream for once while in Osaka, Japan. Still cant forget the taste of it till now... But today, I am going to try making Goma Bread instead of Ice Cream. 

Fuwa fuwa Chiffon White Tea Cake

This cake was the 1st cake my mum learnt to make for me when I was a kid. 


Cant forget the taste of it till now, it will be always the cake I love. 


Thank you mum. 

Saku saku Black Sesame Cookies

Another black sesame recipe for you and me~

I love Sweets

Life is not sweet enough without sweets isn't it?

Komodo Oil Free Cookies

It's named "Kodomo Cookies" (means Cookies for Kids) because it is oil free, butter free... And it is good for chewing, good to keep the kid quiet and stay still for sometime (sometimes works on adult too, LOL).