Pistachio & Hazelnut Swiss Roll

Plain sponge (size 36cm x 26cm)



Ingredients:

Unsalted butter 40g

Egg yolk 100g

Caster sugar 20g

Egg white 160g

Caster Sugar 75g

Plain flour 55g



Prepare a baking tray lined with baking paper. Melt the butter than set a side to cool.



Whisk the egg yolks with sugar in a double boiler until thicken and pale in color. In another bowl whisk the egg whites with caster sugar until peak foam.



Fold the egg yolks into the egg whites then gently fold in the shifted flour. Pour some batter into a clean bowl then mix in the melted butter until well combine.



Pour back into the eggs mixture and mix gently until everything well combine.Pour the batter into prepared baking tray. Bake at 190C for 10 - 12 minutes..Remove the cake from the baking tray immediate when it out from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Tear out the side of the baking paper and let it completely cool down and ready to use.

Whip 250 grams of cream and spread evenly on the cake. Shredded some chocolate on top and roll it up nicely. Spread the remaining cream around the swill roll and coated with some toasted pistachio and hazelnut. Keep in'the fridge for an hour and serve.

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Pure Chocolate Cake

不使用可可粉, 而是让巧克力充分融化后加入来烘烤

成为较湿润的简单蛋糕。

Recipe from 西点学习大百科

Recipe for 23cm round baking pan:

70% dark chocolate 280g

Unsalted butter 200g

6 large eggs

pinch of salt

Caster sugar110g

Plain flour 100g



1. Rub the bottom and the side of baking pan with butter and coated with plain flour. This is to avoid the cake sticking at the pan and easily unmold the cake later.


2. Seperate 4 egg yolk and 4 egg white and add another 2 whole eggs into the egg yolks. Lightly whisk the egg yolk and white until just mixed.


3. Melted the chchocolate at a double boiler with low heat.


4. In another bowl, beat the butter until mayonnaise consistency then add the melted chocolate. 


5. Add the mixed egg yolk and white into the chocolate butter. Add little by little about 8 times.


6. In another clean bowl, whisk the 4 egg whites until fluffy then add the sugar in three batches. Beat until peak stiff consistency. 


7. Fold in 1/3 of the egg white to the chocolate batter then fold in all the shifted plain flour.


8. Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites and mix well. Pour into the baking pan and bake at 160C preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes.

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Xmas Log Cake 2012

To all my dear readers,

Thank you for all your email and support throughout the year when I was away. Although I did not update and post anything here but your concern  is very much appreciated. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you have a great Christmas and blessed new year!



PS : recipe of the log cake please refer to the xmas log cake 2010. Cheers!

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Happy Christmas!

I've just made a very simple log cake with no extra frosting or any fancy decoration  as time is so limited for me nowadays. As usual, I used the same swissroll recipe of 孟老师, it turn out spongy soft just as good as last year attempt of my x'mas log cake. 

The log effect was made by the cocoa mixture then bake together with the sponge. With no extra frosting around the log, we don't feel so guilty of having a big slice. Lastly, wishing everyone have a wonderful Christmas and Happy 2012 !!

16 December 2011 - Make another log cake in vertical version which is quite the same as last year but with the same method of the above non-frosting method. Beside, thanks for everyone who remember me and drop by to leave your comments. Wishing you all have a wonderful Christmas and blessed 2012.

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Blueberry Chiffon Cake

I made this light, fluffy and moist chiffon cake couple of weeks ago and now only have some time to share. It's made by my homemade blueberry sauce and a simple touch up of fresh cream with digestive cookie crumbs. My guests love it very much and so do I. Hope you like it too! OK, I got to go now, very tired today. Cheers!

Recipe from 戚枫蛋糕秘方传授 20 inches cm chiffon pan

(Egg white mixture)

Egg whites 180g

Caster sugar  90g

Corn flour 10g

(Egg yolk mixture)

Egg yolk 70g

Water 20g

Vegetable oil 60g

Blueberry sauce 80g

Lemon juice 10g

plain flour 90g

Caster sugar 20g

Fresh Cream 300ml

Some digestive biscuits crumbs

Some fresh blueberries and mint leaves

1. Blueberry sauce was made with 125g fresh blueberries, splash of water, half of lemon juice and a tablespoon of caster sugar. Cook all the ingredients in a medium low heat until it become a not too thick consistency. Cool and ready to use.


2. Mix all the egg yolks mixture except flour. When everything well combined then add in sifted flour. Mix everything well combine and no lumps left. The mixture would be quite thick and smooth.


3. Beat the egg whites in a clean large bowl until peak foam. Gradually add in sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Then finally add in corn flour. Make sure the corn flour mix well in the egg mixture. The egg whites mixture should be peak foam, smooth and shiny.


4. Gently fold in 1/3 of the egg whites mixture into the egg yolks mixture. When everything well combine then gently fold in the 1/2 of the remaining egg whites mixture. Lastly, fold in the remaining egg whites mixture. 


5. Pour the well mix mixture into a 20cm chiffon cake tin and bake at a 160-170'C preheated oven for 40 - 50 minutes. After baked, let the baked cake turn upside down for cooling before unmold it.


6. Unmold the cake and frost with whipped cream and coat the cookies crumb at the side.

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Baileys Cheesecake

Oh no! This is not what I want to share about because it is not that yummy although still edible. For those who likes light and soft cheesecake, this would be great but not for me as I feel that baileys cheesecake should be in rich texture. So, I won't be sharing the recipe since it's not that nice.

I'm looking for something richer, creamier, smoother and melt in the mouth texture, so I make another experiment which is this one (shown below)!! 

You don't want to have a big piece of this as it's truly rich. Serve it with a cup of tea, it's heaven! Here is something you can eat very slowly, with a small dessert fork would be great especially sitting with someone for a long chit chat.

Ingredients for 7 inches square pan:

For the crust:

150g digestive biscuits

70g unsalted butter, melted

For the cheesecake:

500g cream cheese, at room temperature

100g sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 

2 large eggs, at room temperature

200ml sour cream

75ml baileys 

Method:

To make the crust:

1. Lined the springform pan with baking paper and wrap the bottom of the pan in a double layer of aluminum foil.


2. Mix the digestive biscuits crumbs with the melted butter together in a bowl. Layer the crumbs into the springform pan evenly. Place it into the fridge while you preparing the cheesecake batter.


3. Lowest a rack in the oven, preheat the oven to 160°C and put a kettle of water on to boil.

To make the cheesecake:

1. Beat the cream cheese with sugar, vanilla and salt until creamier and sugar dissolve. 


2. Add in the eggs one at a time and mix until just combine.


3. Mix in the sour cream and baileys. Give the batter a few stirs with a rubber spatula, just to make sure that nothing has been left unmixed at the bottom of the bowl, and scrape the batter into pan that lined with the digestive biscuits.  


4. Put a roasting pan in the oven and pour enough boiling water into the roaster to come halfway up the sides of the pan.


5. Steam bake the cheesecake for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Turn off the oven's heat leave the cheesecake in the oven for an hour.


6. Then, let the cheesecake come to room temperature on a cooling rack. When the cake is cool, cover the top lightly and chill the cake for overnight


7. At serving time, use a hot knife to potions the cakes. Enjoy!

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Baileys Ice Cream

Hello to all my baking buddies! How are you doing? I'm back here to defrost my frozen blog, otherwise it would become a huge iceberg soon, hahaha... Well, I can't stay too long here, as the little one need more of my attention. 

As I don't have sufficient time to make interesting bakes, so I think ice cream would be much easier for me to make especially keep it in the freezer to serve my visitors in anytime. This Baileys ice cream was something I like to try long time ago. The unique taste of the ice cream with a bit of alcohol make me feel floated. Hahaha I must admit, I'm not that alcoholic. 

Beside, the texture remain smoothly soft when it's brought out from the freezer unlike my previous attempts which has to be wait for a few minutes before I can scoop it out nicely. I read an article about adding alcohol to ice cream enhances both flavor and texture. Alcohol lowers the freezing point, so ice creams stay creamier and smoother because they do not freeze as solid and are less likely to form ice crystals. Oh yes! It's so true after my experiment. But, I was too greedy on my second experiment as I add too much Baileys in it until it became too soft. So now I've learned that too much alcohol can prevent ice cream from freezing at all. A rule of thumb is to add one and a half tablespoons of 80-proof alcohol for every quart of ice cream base. Well, I'm going to feed my baking buddies soon, hope they don't mind the texture and most importantly is, they won't get drunk, hahahaha.....

Recipe:

480ml whole milk

150g granulated sugar

4 large egg yolks

240ml heavy cream

1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

4 tablespoon Baileys 

some raisin soak in rum (optional)

Pour the milk into a medium size, heavy bottomed saucepan, add approximately 100g of the sugar, place over medium heat, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture register 77C on an instant-read thermometer.

In a nonreactive, medium-size bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and remaining 50g of sugar until foamy and slightly thickned. Carefully temper the egg yolks with the hot milk mixture by slowly adding about half of the hot liquid to the eggs, whisking continously. Pour the heated egg mixture into the sauce pan with the hot milk and return to the stove top. Stirring continously with a wooden spoon or heatproof rubber spatula, cook the mixture over medium heat until it register 85C on an instant read thermometer or is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon or spatula, taking care to make sure the mixture does not boil. Remove from the heat. Emulsify the mix, if not completely smooth, before incorporating it into the cold cream.

Pour the heavy cream into a clean, large stainless-steel or glas mixing bowl set over an ice bath. Pour the heated custard through a fine mesh sieve or strainer into the cold cream, add the vanilla extract and stir until fully incorporated. Stir occasionally about every 5 minutes until the mixture has fully cooled. This should take about 1/2 hour. Remove the mixing bowl from the ice bath, dry off the bottome of the bowl if necessary, cover with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours or overnight. Add in the Baileys and stir incorporated. When ready, pour the chilled mixture into the ice-cream maker and about 25 minutes from being done.

Remove the finished ice cream from the ice cream maker and add in the drained raisin then place in a plastic continer. Cover with plastic wrap by pressing the wrap gently against the top of the ice cream, affix lid to container, and place in the freezer to fully harden before serving.

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