Sunday brunch :)

Everybody knows the value of Home made food. But can we really keep ourself at bay from burgers, pizza for a long time? 
To put an end to this dilemma, I'll show you to make good quality homemade croissants, which are buttery, flaky and too yummy to gratify your cravings. 
This recipe of mine comprises of easily available ingredients. It takes a little bit of time, efforts and patience to make Croissants, but are totally worth it. 

So will not waste anymore time and start with the recipe and procedures. 

Ingredients:

flour                   250 gm
salt                    1/2 tsp
icing sugar          55 gm
fresh yeast         15 gm
milk                   70 ml
butter                120 gm
egg                    1 no.
vanilla essence    1/2 tsp
egg wash            for brushing

Method:

1. sieve the flour and add yeast, egg, vanilla essence and make a soft dough with the milk and water.

2. Rub salt and little of butter together and add in the soft dough for nourishment.
3. Round it up and keep it cover under a damp cloth.

4. When it double in size, knock back and roll it out into a big circle.

5. Apply the cream margarine all over the rolled out dough.

6. Cut it into 3 uneven portions. Roll the smallest portion and place it on the second largest portion, roll it and place it on the largest portion. Then seal the sides of the rolled  dough and wrap up in the damp cloth.

7. Keep it in the freezer for 20 minutes or till the fat solidifies.
8. Remove and roll it in the rectangular and turn it in the shape of croissants. 

9. Place them on the grease tray and cover it with the damp cloth till it becomes light to touch.




10.  Apply egg wash and bake at 220 C for 15 minutes.

      (Egg wash - 1 no. egg and 10 ml water mix together)

11. Apply sugar syrup when hot. (syrup should be warm)
     (sugar syrup - equal quantity of water and sugar boil together)

Happy Baking !!!

Cakeholics

My Mom & Dad's 25^th wedding anniversary. A really big day of celebration for them and as well as for me.

To add up to the joy I decided to make use of my baking skills and give them a surprise by making a 2 tier chocolate cake.

I worked hard to accomplish my job to perfection and later, to celebrate the occasion with my dear parents.

So here I am sharing this joyful journey of making 2 tiers chocolate cake with you all. 

1. layering cake

2. Apply sugar syrup

3. Apply chocolate icing

4. leveling of icing

5. Apply another part of slice sponge

7. Finish of icing

8. Cake border icing

9. Final presentation with handmade roses.

I hope this recipe will bring the smiles on the face of your loved ones.

Enjoy....

Rich Walnut Pie

Ingredients:

For pastry:

Flour         110 gms

Icing sugar 10 gms

Butter       60 gms

Cold water to mix

For filling:

Walnuts       80 gms

Egg yolk        3 nos

Butter         50 gms

Sugar          50  gms

Brown sugar 50 gms

Milk            100 ml

  Method:

  For pastry:

1.  Sieve flour and mix icing sugar in it.

2. Rub the fat into it until it resemble like a bread crumb.

  

3. Mix with cold water to form a dough then roll on the slab and line it in the tart tin.

4. Bake at 150 C for 15 to 20 minutes till it is half bake.

 

For filling: 

1. As you complete with the tart base, in a pan mix butter, sugar, brown sugar and blend well.

     2.     Slowly incorporate the yolk in the mixture with the milk.

     3.    Put the pan on a slow fire till thick.

4. Stir in flaked walnuts and place the mixture in the half bake tart.

5. You can decorate the tart with the remaining strips of pastry and apply egg wash.

 6. Further, put it for baking at 150 C for 45 minutes.

  

Home-made Healthy Pizza

 Life for students is all about examinations and results. To transform exam tensions into fun and excitement, I decided to organize a bakery trade fair as internal assessment for my students.

In this fair students had to form in groups and prepare the bakery food items and sell the stuff to the college staff members and as well to the students of the other course. Grades will be decided based on the number of coupons collected by the group for their stuff.

So I am going to unfold the recipe, I taught to my students for the trade fair which happened to be a grand success.

Thin crust Pizza recipe follows as below:

 Ingredients : (for dough)

INGREDIENTS OF BREAD.

Refine flour: 125 gms

Wheat flour: 125 gms

Yeast: 10 gms

Grain sugar: 5 gms

Fat: 10 gms

Milk: 30 ml (optional)

Egg: 1 no. (optional)

Water: to bind

MAKING OF THE DOUGH.

Fillings & sauce:

Tomatoes: 500 gms

Onions: 200 gms

Cheese: 100 gms

Olives: 10 gms

Capsicum: 100 gms

Mushrooms: 30 gms

Red chilli powder: ½ tsp

Pepper powder: ½ tsp

Salt: to taste

Method:

1. Sieve the flour and make soft dough.

2. Chop onions and tomatoes, grate cheese, cut roundels of capsicum and slice the mushrooms and olives.

PORTIONING OF DOUGH.

3. Sauté the onions in little oil, add tomatoes and cook as it thickens add chilly powder and pepper, herbs, and salt. Make a thick tomato sauce.

4. Divide the dough into 6 portions and allow it to ferment.

5.  Roll out the dough; spread the tomato sauce with the topping over the pizza and sprinkle cheese and bake at 220 C for 10-15 minutes.

6. After baking apply fat at the edges of the bread.

7.  Cut the bread with the help of pizza cutter or knife into 6 or 8 portion.

ROLLING OF THE DOUGH.

APPLICATION OF SAUCE AND THE TOPPINGS.

AFTER BAKING @ 220 DEGREE.

Happy baking!

Yumm... Brownies.

FINAL PRESENTATION

This blog gives me the opportunity to carry the message of the contribution as an individual towards our society along with the delicious and easy making brownies recipe at your edge.

In this era of fast life everybody is busy in pursuit of money, success and power. But we tend to forget our social responsibilities and give back a little to our own society.

Being a privileged child from my childhood , I really wanted to reveal some responsibilities towards our society in some noble cause. And here the day arrived with the initiative of Apeejay institute of hospitality CBD Belapur and along with the active participation of the students, it was decided to visit Swarg Dwar at Taloja and serve lunch to less privileged elderly citizens and children.

This event personally helped me to contribute toward the society as I was assigned to make the brownies for the old age and less privilege children.

And I am very much delighted in writing the blog on this recipe as the brownies were made for a noble cause and it was really enjoyable for everyone.

Brownies 

Ingredients :

Dark chocolate – 200 gm

Butter – 200 gm

Grain sugar – 150 gm

Eggs  - 3 nos.

Flour – 125 gm

Vanilla essence – 2/3 drops

chopped Walnuts – 50 gm

Method :

1. Whisk the eggs and grain sugar lightly with the help of the electric  beater.

2.  Simultaneously melt dark chocolate and butter together on the double boiler.

3.  After melting the mixture of dark chocolate and butter together, add it into the whisk egg and sugar.

4. Mix it all together with the help of whisk and add flour and walnuts into it.

5.   Cut and fold the entire mixture with the help of spatula (lightly).

6.   Pour the brownie batter in the greased cake tin (rectangle shape) and bake it on 180 C for 25 minutes.

• NOTE : After baking de-mould at room temperature.

• SERVINGS : Maximum 12 pieces and serve it warm with chocolate sauce or vanilla ice cream.

And relish this recipe with the heart touching poem that flow

I'M BLESSED INDEED !

I'm blessed indeed!

Today upon the bus, I saw a lovely girl,

And I wish I were as fair.

She seemed so happy, I envied her.

And then suddenly, she rose to leave,

And I saw her hobble down the aisle,

She had one leg and wore a crutch,

Oh God, forgive me when I whine,

I have two legs, I am blessed indeed. The world is mine!

Later walking down the street,

I saw a man with blue eyes.

But he just stood and watched others play.

So, I stopped a moment and then I said,

"Why don't you join the others, Sir?"

But he look ahead without a word.

And then I knew he could not hear.

Oh God, forgive me when I whine.

I have two ears, I am blessed indeed. The world is mine!

And later, I stopped to buy some sweets,

The lad who sold them had such charm,

I talked with him. If I were late, it would do no harm.

But as I turned to go, he said to me,

"I thank you, Sir, you've been so kind.

It's nice to talk to folks like you

But excuse me, I am blind."

Oh God, forgive me when I whine.

I have two eyes, I am blessed indeed. The world is mine!

With legs to take me where I want to go,

With ears to hear the things I need to know,

With eyes to watch the radiant sunset glow.

Oh god forgive me when I whine,

I am blessed indeed. the world is mine!

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