Tuesday, June 24, 2008

chocolate brownies


Ingredients:



unsalted butter 255gsorbitol 30g


sugar 360g

emulsifier 10g

egg 280g

salt 3g

warm cocoa mass 45g

chocolate paste 15g

pregelatinized starch 15g

all purpose flour 285g

baking powder 6g

cocoa powder 30g

walnut 150g

dark pitted cherry 270g

chocolate chips 60g

Methods:


1.mix butter,sugar and emulsifier on medium speed
for 15 minutes until fluffy.

2.add eggs over 10 minutes on medium speed.

3.pre-blend sorbitol,warm cocoa mass and chocolate

paste before adding on slow speed for 1 minute.

4.sieve flour,baking powder and cocoa powder

and mix on slow speed for 30 second.

5.add walnut,dark pitted cherry and chocolate

chips on slow speed for 30 second.

6.transfer into a square aluminium tray measuring 25 x 25 cm

and bake at 160C on water bath for about 1 1/2 hours.

7.cool down and apply a thin layer of chocolate fudge

and decorate with several pieces of walnut.

drizzle with white chocolate.







Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

how to decorate a cake


Steps
Decide how you want to decorate the cake. A message, face, or just cool stuff put all over it? Signs and faces are best for parties and occasions, remember that.
Carefully get a piece of paper. Draw and plan out what you want to do. Figure out what you need, and get it. Make sure your plan/drawing is very detailed-there's one cake, and it's better to get it right on the first or second couple of tries, rather than continuously smudging stuff off.
Once you have everything you need and you're confident, get to work. For signs and faces, you might want to practise on a towel or solid surface first, so you're a little more-experienced in the area. Make sure you're careful and don't crush anything in the process. Make sure you leave room for candles! After all, candles symbolize a celebration!!

Tips
When you get the stuff in tubes, the actual frosting works better than gel frosting.
If you mess up, it doesn't matter. Just wipe off the mistake and put the tub frosting over it and start that bit again if it's really bad. or if it's not terrible, just carry on and ignore it.
Wait until the cake is completely cool until you put the tub frosting on. Otherwise, you can peel off the top layer of cake and get a messy result. Also, the frosting may melt a bit, resulting in a change in taste.

Warnings
The urge to eat the cake may occur.

the variety cakes


Indulge in scrummy dessert delight!
celebrations are moments to rejoice, praise and make merry. To accomplish the merriment, cakes form a primary part of the celebration.
cakes are made with numerous varieties of designs, styles and recipes. Decorated cakes are available in variety recipes like caramel cake, rum cake, cheesecake, chocolate cake,ice cream cake,coconut cake, fruit cake, vanilla wafer cake to name a few. These variety recipe cakes also have attractive colours and styles to display. However, the designs and styles vary according to the different cake makers. Therefore preparing cake is an art and the artistic skills are obvious in the gorgeous looking cakes that they offer.

Friday, May 16, 2008

HISTORY OF PIZZA


Pizza is a baked pie of italian origin consisting of a shallow bread-like crust covered with seasoned tomato sauce,cheese and often other toppings such as sausage and olive.The foundations for pizza were originally laid by the early greeks who first baked large,round and flat breads which they topped with oil,herbs,spices and dates.Eventually the idea of flat bread found its way to italy where,in 18th century,the flat bread called ''pizzas'' were sold in the streetsand in the markets.They were plain bread without filling relatively cheap to make and sold to the poor all over naples by street vendors.The acceptance of the tomato by the neapolitans and the visit of a queen contributed to the pizza as we know and enjoy it today.In about 1889,Queen Margherita,accompanied by her husband,Umberto 1,took an inspection tour of her italian kingdom.During her travels around italy she saw many people,especially the peasants,eating this large,flat bread.Curiou,the queen ordered her guards to bring her one of these pizza bread and she loved it.The queen summoned Chef Rafaelle Esposito from his pizzeria to the royal palace and ordered him to bake a selection of pizzas for her pleasure.To honor the queen ,Rafaelle decided to make a very special pizza just for her.He baked a pizza topped with tomatoes,mozzarella cheese and fresh basil (to represent the colour of the italian flag:red,white and green).this became Queen Margherita's favorite pizza and when word got out that this pizza was one of the queen's favorite foods.Soon it became well known all over world as pizza margherita