Sunday, 23 March 2014



Donuts 







Ingredients


  • For Donuts:
  • Instant Yeast 2 ¼ tsp
  • Warm water 1/8 cup
  • Lukewarm milk ¾ cup
  • Sugar ¼ cup
  • Salt 1/2 tsp
  • Egg 1
  • Oil 1/6 cup
  • All-purpose flour 2 ½ cups
  • Vanilla Frosting:
  • Solid vegetable shortening ¼ cup
  • Butter or margarine 1/4 cup
  • Clear vanilla extract ½ tsp
  • Confectioners’ sugar 2 cups (sifted)
  • Milk 1 tbsp
  • For Chocolate Glaze:
  • Chocolate chips 1 cup (semisweet)
  • Cooking Directions

    1. For Donuts:
    2. Dissolve yeast in warm water in mixing bowl.
    3. Add milk, sugar, salt, egg, shortening and 1 cup of flour.
    4. Beat on low speed scraping bowl constantly, 30 seconds.
    5. Stir in remaining flour until smooth.
    6. Cover and let rise in warm place, approximately 50 - 60 minutes.
    7. Turn dough onto floured surface.
    8. Roll dough ½ inch thick.
    9. Cut with round cookie cutter.
    10. Heat vegetable oil in fryer.
    11. Slide doughnuts into hot oil.
    12. Turn doughnuts as they turn golden brown then remove.
    13. When cool, make small hole to insert vanilla frosting.
    14. Take a sharp narrow knife and carefully make a large cavity inside of the doughnut to hold the frosting.
    15. Fill the doughnuts generously with vanilla frosting and dust heavily with powdered sugar.
    16. For Vanilla Frosting:
    17. Cream butter and shortening, gradually add sugar at a time.
    18. Add milk and vanilla, beat until light and fluffy.
    19. Can keep for 2 weeks in airtight.

Saturday, 22 March 2014




French Macaroons




Ingredients

  • Almond meal 250 gm
  • Icing sugar 430 gm
  • Egg whites 200 gm
  • Caster sugar 60 gm
  • Salt a small pinch
  • Cocoa powder 2 tbsp or gel edible color (pink or any desired)
  • For Ganache:
  • Cream 30 gm
  • Chocolate 100 gm
  • Cooking Directions

    1. Pre heat oven at mark 3, line parchment paper on cookie tray and draw 2 inch circles with the help of pencil on distance.
    2. Sift almond meal, icing sugar and salt twice.
    3. Beat egg whites till frothy add caster sugar and beat with electric beater for 10 mins.
    4. Add cocoa powder or gel color, mix and beat more.
    5. Fold sifted almond meal, icing sugar and salt into egg mixture it will take 40-50 folds to for smooth creamy batter.
    6. Fill piping bag with this mixture and pipe on lined tray circles.
    7. Bake them for 20 minutes.
    8. For Ganache Filling:Put cream into pan add chocolate, cook till chocolate melts.
    9. Remove and keep a side on room temperature till cool and thicken into creamy.
    10. Now fill this ganache into piping bag and pipe on baked macaroon put another piece of macaroon to make sandwich.

Friday, 21 March 2014

Thin Mint Jelly Shots


Ingredients
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1 small can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup creme de cocoa
2 tablespoons sugar (optional)
1/2 cup creme de menthe
Crumbled chocolate cookies (for garnish)
Whipped cream (for garnish)


Directions

Delicately layer a little griddle or dish having food preparation bottle of spray, then utilizing a cardstock small towel, clean that out and about. It will abandon a mild residue to assist unmold your current photos, nevertheless it won’t have an effect on this style.

Serve ½ cup mineral water in to a tiny saucepan. Spread 1 bag involving unflavored gelatin too much and allow it to needlessly relax within just a few minutes. (It can form of look like applesauce. ) Switch on this burner and temperature over channel, mixing consistently, till gelatin dissolves.

Put in a tablespoon involving unsweetened cocoa dust and mix till mixed. Take away from temperature and mix within 1-2 tablespoons sweetened compacted whole milk and ½ cup crème de cocoa and mix till completely merged. Serve straight into prepared griddle and refrigerate, allowing to line intended for 15-20 min's.

Though candy coating is placing, help make both the natural cellular levels. Serve 1 ¼ cup involving mineral water in to a tiny saucepan and spread having a couple of packets unflavored gelatin and invite to be able to relax within just a few minutes. Switch on this burner and temperature over channel, mixing consistently, till gelatin dissolves. Increase 1-2 tablespoons involving sweets and mix till that dissolves (sugar is suggested, nevertheless it aids relaxed this mint a bit). Take away from temperature and mix within ½ cup involving crème de menthe.

Serve 1 cup on the natural fluid in to a separate jar. Towards the outstanding mixture (about 1/2 of any cup), create regarding ¼ cup sweetened compacted whole milk. You ought to have a shiny natural coating as well as a creamy natural coating … the two somewhere around a cup. Allow the two to be able to cool to be able to area temperature.

Once candy coating features merely established (enough enabling you to delicately hint this surface), create this creamy mint coating. Return to this refrigerator intended for an additional 15 minutes till that coating is definitely hardly established. Increase the last mint coating and invite to line a minimum of several hours (or rather overnight).

Whenever you’re willing to function, gently draw this ends far from this griddle and change upon a chopping mother board. Slice straight into even squares. Prime having crumbled candy pastries and whipped product, if ideal.

Rainbrow Cheesecake


Ingredients

Crust
2 cups finely crushed graham crackers
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
Filling,




4 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, room temperature
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 pinch salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup heavy cream
4 large eggs
1 each of liquid food colors (blue, yellow, green, red)


Directions

Preheat stove 350°F. Prior to deciding to begin to do the crusting, make certain your own 9 half inch springform pan is water-tight. Do this by very carefully covering a couple of cellular levels of foil on the lateral side from the pan, consequently drinking water are unable to get into the pan. Do not disparaging offer the foil or maybe drinking water can get straight into your own dessert and damage it!
Mix smashed crackers, only two tablespoons sugars, the cinnamon and sodium together in the pan. Then mixture in butter using your clean arms, until finally crumbs usually are pea type of.
Media each of the graham cracker combination in to the geared up springform pan. Media it down firmly within the pan. Make use of a testing goblet because of this, rendering it simple travel the ends. You need to have a good, toned crusting.

Make the crusting with regard to 10 min's on the minimal stove sheet. Remove from your stove, and awesome fully prior to continuous. Turn stove heat down to 325°F.


For making stuffing, slice treatment mozzarella dairy product straight into items and help to increase some sort of mixing up pan. Mix until finally sleek, possibly 5 min's. You can add 1-1/3 cups sugars, and still overcom until finally sleek once again, an additional 4-5 min's. Subsequent, increase vanilla, sodium, bad treatment and major treatment; overcom until finally sleek. Add in 1 egg at the same time, defeating briefly concerning just about every egg.


If the combination is properly put together and extremely sleek, try to portion smoothly straight into 6 dishes. Create meal coloring to help just about every dish to have the preferred colors. (Red = 20 lowers of reddish colored, Red = 18 lowers orange + 6 lowers reddish colored, Yellow = 18 lowers orange, Eco-friendly = 18 lowers environmentally friendly, Blue = 18 lowers azure, Violet = 18 lowers reddish colored + 12 lowers blue)

Put colored mixtures straight into cooled crusting. Begin with reddish colored stuffing, and slowly but surely pour it suitable in the heart of the crusting. Keep construct the rainbow by putting the fillings immediately within the heart. This will develop cellular levels to ensure just about every cut possesses several of just about every coloring.

Place cheesecake into a the baking dish on stove sheet, and fill the baking dish with cooking drinking water regarding 1 half inch the part from the springform pan.

Make on 325°F within the drinking water bathtub with regard to an hour and 40 min's to 1 hr 50 min's or maybe until finally arranged however jiggles a little only two inches width from your edge. If cheesecake starts to help dark brown at the top, handle often with foil in the course of very last 5 min's of the baking.
Go out the stove, open up the stove front door some sort of crack, and let the dessert awesome within the stove with regard to an hour. This sluggish cooling will help it certainly not crack.
Then often encapsulate the dish in foil to ensure the foil is not in contact the the top of dessert and refrigerate with regard to no less than 5 hrs.

While able to take away dessert, operate some sort of clean thin knife throughout the edge from the dish, take away the foil, unlock the spring, and very carefully pick up off the outer engagement ring.

Thursday, 20 March 2014

Chocolaty Peanut Butter Truffles




Ingredients
  1. 3 tablespoon butter (salted or unsalted), softened
  2. 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  3. 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  4. 1 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  5. 1 tablespoon shortening, optional
  6. 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
  7. 1 teaspoon shortening, optional
Instructions
  1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper.
  2. 1. In a medium bowl, mix together butter and peanut butter until well combined. Incorporate powdered sugar and mix really well until a smooth dough forms. Form dough into 24 balls (about 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough per ball) and place on the prepared baking sheet. Place baking sheet into the fridge and let chill for 30 minutes (or 15 minutes in the freezer).
  3. 2. Meanwhile, melt semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon shortening, if using, in the microwave or with the help of a double boiler.
  4. 3. Remove peanut butter balls from the fridge and dunk one ball at-a-time into the melted chocolate. I use a fork to flip over the ball in the chocolate to make sure it's evenly coated. After that, I tap the fork gently against the side of the bowl to let excess chocolate drip off and transfer the coated truffle back to the baking sheet. Repeat with all balls. Place back into fridge for 10 minutes.
  5. 4. Melt milk chocolate and 1 teaspoon shortening and remove truffles from the fridge. Using a fork, sprinkle each truffle with melted chocolate. Place truffles back into the fridge for at least 15 minutes or until set. Enjoy!

Wednesday, 19 March 2014


Fast berry ice cream recipe

INGREDIENTS

  • 125ml double cream
  • 350g frozen mixed fruits of the forest berries
  • 4 tbsp caster sugar
  • Crisp biscuits, such as cigarettes russes, to serve

Method

  1. Put the cream in a medium bowl and whip using an electric mixer until soft peaks form, then set aside. Put the berries and caster sugar in a food processor and blend for 1–2 minutes until the mixture looks like large crystals. Stop and scrape down the sides of the food processor bowl as necessary.
  2. Add the cream and blend for a further 2 minutes until smooth. You may need to stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl halfway through. Immediately spoon the ice cream into four bowls or glasses and serve with crisp biscuits.

  • Nigiri sushi recipe

INGREDIENTS

  • 375g Japanese sushi rice
  • 4 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 75g piece skinned MSC certified albacore or pole and line caught skipjack tuna or sea bass *
  • 75g piece skinned MSC certified pacific or organically farmedsalmon, tilapia or trout fillet *
  • A little wasabi paste
  • 4 tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp mirin
  • 25g Japanese pickled ginger

METHOD

How to make nigiri sushi

1. Wash the rice well, then drain and put into a saucepan with 600ml cold water. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat, cover, and leave for 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, mix the vinegar with the sugar and salt until the sugar has dissolved. Gradually stir the vinegar mixture into the rice.
3. Using slightly wet hands, shape the cooked rice into small, neat rectangles. Cut the fish across the grain into thin, rectangular slices. Smear the top of each block of rice with a little wasabi paste and cover neatly with a slice of raw fish.
4. Mix the soy sauce with the mirin and pour into individual dipping saucers. Serve the sushi with the dipping sauce and pickled ginger.