Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Christmas log cake

Joined a baking class again organize by workplace.
I always love that as I get to bring home what I make!
This recipe looks simple.

 
Ok, We do number 2 first, then we add in number 1 on the same bowl.











 
My log cake was at the bottom right.




Saturday, December 7, 2013

7 Dec 2013 - Macaron With chocolate Filling


 
Ingredients
- Egg white, 55gm
- Castor sugar, 50gm
- Almond Ground, 75gm
- Icing Sugar, 75gm
- Colouring

Steps:
1. Whip the egg white and sugar to soft peak
2. Mix well the almond ground, icing sugar together, add into the ready egg white and colour and mix well.
3. Scoop into piping bag and pipe into a round shape on baking tray.
4. let it rest for 20 mins and bake at 150 degree Celsius for 20 mins (rest in air con temperature to let it dry, the baking temperature depend on your oven)
5. When cool down, sandwich with any filling

Chocolate fillings:
- UHT milk, 300gm
- Red tea leaf, 20 gm (Instructor used Earl grey tea)
- Dark Couverture, 600gm

Steps:
1. Boil the milk and tea leaf and cover for 10 mins
2. Strain the milk and pour into the couverture and stir until dissolve
3. let it cool and keep aside to let it set.

 
2nd row left, Egg white, 55gm
right, Castor sugar, 50gm
1st row left, Almond Ground, 75gm
right, Icing Sugar, 75gm

 
Mix well the almond ground, icing sugar together
 Whip the egg white and sugar to soft peak (to white smooth)
Add both together.
 
 
Instructor added the sky blue colouring

 
Technique, to press without making circle, cut off at edge.

 
After finished, must shake the tray to make the round shape flatten

 
Me mixing both the whipped egg white and sugar, almond ground and icing sugar mixture together.
 
 
Added the colouring

 
Starting to do the piping to round shape

 
Trying to make the same round shape...for all...


 
My Macaron before baking 

 
Colourful...




 
Instructor's macaron

 
In the oven

 
How to know whether its ok to take out?
When the macaron doesn't stick to the paper and can be take off the paper easily.
Do not add too much colouring, the instructor said as the bottom will not be nice later when remove.


 
Done! Sandwich the chocolate filling prepared by the instructor.
Remember the macaron will be crushed easily.
Used your 2 hand to sandwich the macaron together.
Best to make the macaron same size so both side fit nicely.

7 Dec 2013 - Christmas Night Cake


With Icing sugar
 


 
The cake was very nice!



Chocolate Sponge:
1. Egg - 5
2. Water - 50ml
3. Chocolate Sponge Mix - 250gm (Brand, Red Man)
4. Melted unsalted butter - 50gm

Steps
1. Whip up the egg, water and chocolate sponge mix to double volume (high speed)
2. Add in the melted butter and mix well.
3. Pour into a "7" round tin and bake at 160 degree celsius for 35-40mins

Chocolate filling:
1. Egg yolk - 3
2. Fine sugar - 40gm
3. Dark Couverture - 80gm
4. Milk Couverture - 70gm
5. Whipping cream - 300gm
6. Gelatine Powder - 1tbsp
7. Hot water - 3tbsp

Steps
1. Boil the sugar and 20gm water
2. Whip up the egg yolk to creamy.
3. Add in step 1 into the yolk mixture and mix to cool.
4. Whip up the cream to soft peak and add into it.
5. Lastly dissolve the gelatine with hot water and add into the above mixture.
6. Divide the mixture into 2 portion (175g) and add in the chocolate (80g dark chocolate)
7. Another portion, add in the milk couverture.

Raspberry filling:
1. Raspberry Puree - 60gm
2. Whipping cream - 150gm
3. Gelatine Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
4. Hot water - 1 tbsp.
5. Icing sugar - 50gm

Steps
1. Whip up the cream to soft peak.
2. Mix the puree and icing sugar together and add into the cream
3. Dissolve the gelatine with hot water and add into it.
4. Mix everything well and pour into 5 inch ring, Refrigerate.

Chocolate Glace:
1. Mirror gel- 350gm
2. Water - 60gm
3. Whipping cream - 120gm
4. Dark Couverture - 220gm

Steps
1. Mix the mirror gel and water together
2. Boil the cream and add into the couverture and stir until dissolve
3. Mix the step 1 and 2 together and ready to use.

Finishing:
1. Cut the cake to 2 layer and put 1 layer into the cake ring
2. Pour the chocolate filling into it and level it.
3. Put the 2nd layer sponge and put the raspberry filling and level it.
4. Scoop the milk chocolate filling and level it.
5. Keep it in the fridge to let it set.
6. Take out and coat with the glaze on it and decorate with some x'mas décor on it.

The recipe above, the items can be purchased from Phoon Huat.


 
We had our lesson started around 1400hrs. There was another session before us.
This was a class organised by my workplace so we were subsidised.
Paid only $25 instead of $45.
We ended around 1800hrs instead of 1700hrs
 
The chocolate sponge was prepared by the instructor. We did not make it.

 
Preparing the egg yolk for the chocolate filling
We worked in pairs here.



 
300gm of whip cream per pax, 2 pax should be 600gm. Initially, our whip cream was less than rest of participants as we did not press "Tare" on the weighing machine. ie, place the big bowl, press the TARE, and it will exclude the weight of the bowl.

 
Instructor teaching us how to on the machine to beat our egg yolk and sugar water

 
Making the chocolate filling. Added the whip cream to the beaten egg yolk

 
Dissolve the gelatine with hot water and add into the mixture.
Remember to stir well to the bottom as well.

 
Then we divided the mixture to half and added chocolate coverture

 
Pour the chocolate mixture to the chocolate sponge, level it, add another chocolate sponge.


 
The raspberry filling was prepared by the instructor. It was taken out from the fridge.
Looked like ice cream and felt like eating it.

 
Place the raspberry filling on top of our chocolate sponge.


 
Remember we had another portion of the mixture? Added in the milk coverture and pour into our tin


 
Become like this. Instructor said this action must be fast. Then we placed this into freezer.

 
From the freezer...

 
Instructor said this action can be replaced by using hair dryer. Heat the tin to take out the frozen cake.
After taken out, place in the freezer again.

 
The instructor helped us with the chocolate glace and it was done.