Friday, May 2, 2014

Citrus Cake

I made an eggless sponge cake with added orange and lemon rind!

1 cup curd
1 cup sugar (reduce if you want a slightly less sweet cake)
1 and 1/4th tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla essence (so happy that I am going to give up using essence soon. Making my own extract from pure vanilla bean :-D)
1/4th cup vegetable oil
1 and 1/4th cup plain flour



Method 

Grease and line your baking tin with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

In a bowl, mix the curd and granulated sugar till sugar dissolves completely. Add the baking powder and baking soda and leave the mixture for 3 to 4 minutes for the bubbles to form.

Once the mixture has frothed well, add the oil, vanilla, orange and lemon rind and the flour and mix well.

Pour into the tin and place into the oven.

Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center emerges clean.

Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for ten minutes. Now remove and cool it on a wire rack.

Serve it in any way you wish.

Sadly, all pictures were lost


Friday, February 21, 2014

Cookies,Meringues and pie bread!

It's a baking blowout!

I have made a new kind of bread,named pie bread, which tastes a bit like chicken pie
Ingredients
3 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp active dry yeast
3 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of warm water
1tbsp margarine 
1 egg yolk for brushing the top

Method

Dissolve water and yeast together
Mix in all the flour,salt,sugar and butter
Keep rolling it until it's a soft dough
Grease a bowl and evenly cover the dough 
Place the dough in the bowl to set for about 1hr
Knead on a lightly floured surface until soft and elastic
Place in a loaf pan or a loaf tin
Bake at 180* until golden 
Cut and enjoy!


I have made one egg meringues that taste like...wait for it....MERINGUES!
Ingredients

I egg white
1/2 cup sugar
1tsp cream of tartar (optional)

Whisk egg,sugar and cream of tartar until firm peaks appear
Place in a piping object thing
Pipe onto greased baking object of choice
Bake at 50* for 40minutes
Scoop and enjoy!
 
I already posted this last one 
It's those ginger blend cookies
Look at the other post of mine
So this a baking blowout!





SHAMAZING ginger-blend COOKIES

Scrumptious homemade ginger blend cookies

We found a recipe, but it was boring... So we made it SHAMZING WITH A CAPITAL SHA

ingredients

2 Tsp Chinese five spice (or anything you find snazzy)
2 1/2 cuppa flour
125g butter
3 tsp ground ginger
1 egg (yolk only bros)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup golden syrup

Method

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease up 1 tray with oily spray stuff

  2. Step 2

    Use an electric beater to beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add the golden syrup and egg yolk and beat until combined. Stir in the flour, ginger, five spice thing and bicarbonate of soda. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.

  3. Step 4

    Place the dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and roll out until about 4mm thick. Use a cookie cutttters to cut out stuff . Place on trays about 3cm apart. Repeat with any excess dough. And then they will be amazingly fancy and delish.


Hi I'm neha and I have helped and approved arias cookies. They are SHAMZING.


Accidents happen
Then peoples heads and body fall of and get eaten
What a world we live in





















Sunday, February 2, 2014

Red velvet cupcakes

 These are from a box prepared recipe 

And it said 12 but I made about 48


Same buttercream as the other cake

1/2 cup milk
3-4 cups icing sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
200g butter
Food colouring (optional)

Whisk it with a electric whisk thing until it's smooth

Enjoy!


P.S I added mini mallows to them and now they have erupted on the inside causing a delicious catastrophe 

P.P.S I also added hundreds and thousands



Cinnamon and cocoa cake

Here's a great birthday recipe for lovers of chocolate
(My big brothers birthday)


  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup butter, cubed
  • 1/4 cup baking cocoa
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda




Method 

  1. In a bowl, combine the first four ingredients. In a saucepan, combine the water, oil, butter and cocoa; bring just to a boil over medium heat. Pour over dry ingredients; mix well. Add eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and baking soda; mix well. Pour into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan.
  2. Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Place on a wire rack.

I used a basic buttercream



1/2 cup milk
3-4 cups icing sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
200g butter
Food colouring (optional)

Whisk it with a electric whisk thing until it's smooth

Enjoy!

Friday, December 20, 2013

Velvety smooth chocolate shots

My judge wanted a sweet drink to go with her food

Ingredients

1 cup of milk
 4 tbsp Cadbury drinking chocolate
Coffee plunger (optional)

Method

1. Place milk in coffee plunger/jug
2. Mix and add drinking chocolate
3. Plunge down coffee plunger thingy ma bob
4. Prepare cup and marshmallows
5. Sit back and enjoy 


20/10!
-judge neha