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Monday, 10 March 2014

Roses Cupcakes II (Happy 50th Birthday Vicki)





这几天相信大家都在关注MH370失踪事件。 想到亲戚朋友等待消息痛苦和焦虑,不禁悲从心来,心酸万分。虽然至今依然疑惑重重,但是我们还是希望奇迹出现。


这是周末给同事做的生日杯子蛋糕。其实啊,我是很喜欢捏翻糖的。但是如果久久不捏,对它又生疏了。玫瑰花算是捏了几次,google了不同的教学方法,从最基本,什么道具都没有的方法,到复杂的方法都试过。其实手工玫瑰,就算是有道具,最后出来的成品,每一朵都会不同,每一朵都具自己的特色,最终,还是老套一句,多做常做,熟能生巧。

如果是顾客订的,那么就必需知道顾的客要求和愿意付的价钱。顾客是否注重到花朵的每一个细节,愿意附你的时间费用,这都是成品价钱的定位。 这里烘培店里卖的翻糖玫瑰价钱可以是从一块几到十几块一朵。价钱定位于花的大小和不同捏造细节。捏玫瑰也可以是几分钟到几十分钟,有些甚至还要放干隔天才能进行下个步骤的。

我自己有两种模具,但是自己比较喜欢分开花瓣的钢模。钢模比较锐利,花瓣的边边就不会有毛毛的问题。相反槊胶模要比较用力切割才不会产生这个问题。最近工作很忙,没有时间做步骤图,希望下次能和大家分享这个简单而且自己还算满意的翻糖玫瑰














Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Best Banana Bundt Cake (香蕉蛋糕)





橱柜里收集的烘盘型型式式,bundt模子从大型,中型到迷你型都有,但是就是很少会想要吃bundt cake。实在忍不住看着买了很久还在包装袋里原封不动的中型模于是就赶紧翻阅了相中已久的香蕉bundt cake。这个获得很多好评的香蕉蛋糕早前就在Ann家看到mark住了。蛋糕果然很moist,很好吃。为了符合我家老公一定要有cream的才肯吃的蛋糕,所以也另加了花生酱和核桃粹。好吃!



Bundt cake:
350g Plain flour
2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Salt
225g Butter, at room temperature
170g Sugar (sugar already reduced to half)
2 tsp Vanilla extract
2 Eggs (70g each)
4 Very ripe banana, mashed (370g without skin)
1 tub Sour cream/plain yogurt (200ml)

Peanut butter topping:
¼ cup peanut butter
¼ cup milk
½ tsp vanilla essence


Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C( 160 C fan force). Grease bundt pan with butter or cooking spray.

2. Sieve flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl and mix well, set aside.

3. In a mixing bowl, beat butter until creamy. Add the sugar and beat at medium speed until pale and fluffy.

4. Beat in vanilla, then add the eggs one at a time, beating for about 1 minute.

5. Reduce the mixer speed to low and mix in the mashed bananas.

6. Finally, mix in half the dry ingredients, all the sour cream and then the rest of the flour mixture and mix well.

7. Scrape the batter into the pan, tap the pan on the counter to de-bubble the batter and smooth the top.
Bake for 20-25 minutes (mini bundt mould) or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

8. Transfer the cake to a rack and cool for 10 minutes before removing cakes from the mould onto the rack to cool to room temperature.

9. Beat peanut butter, milk and vanilla essence on low speed until smooth. (If the mixture is too thick, add a little milk until achieve spreading consistency).

10. Dip cake onto the peanut butter cream mixture, sprinkle with some chopped walnut.

Recipe from: Anncoo Journal