Choc Marble Bread

It's was on my wanted list to do,and finally I did it, not very nice in  appearance  but taste great, and I have difficulty in rolling and the chocolate paste keeps oozing out, I just go ahead and braid and decide  not continue to fold and roll again ,inorder not to get too messy.

I did not have a proper size baking tin, need to buy and I will try again.. Next time, I must get a perfect bake, if not perfect, almost perfect also can....:)

I did extra half portion of bread dough for some leftover red bean paste and this dough goes very well with the paste.

Chocolate Marbled Loaf ~ 巧克力大理石吐司 (Recipe from Carol 自在生活), Extract from Cathy Joy's Blog

Chocolate portion:



50g chocolate

20g butter

20g bread flour

10g cocoa powder

5g cornflour

60g milk

20g castor sugar

1 egg white



Method

1. Melt chocolate & butter separately.

2. Sift flour, cocoa powder & cornflour together. Put the flour mixture in a saucepan.

3. Add in milk & sugar into the sifted flour mixture.

4. Add in melted chocolate, butter & egg white.

5. Put the saucepan over the stove on low heat. Using a balloon whisk to stir the mixture until it becomes thick. It will becomes a soft dough.

6. Remove the saucepan from stove. Pour out the chocolate dough onto a cling wrap to cool down.

7. Roll out the chocolate dough into 18cm x 18cm & put in fridge for later use.



Bread dough:



260g bread flour

20g plain flour

1 egg

25g castor sugar

3/4 tsp instead yeast

1/4 tsp salt

125g milk

20g butter



Method

1. Combine all ingredients together (except butter) in a mixer & beat until a dough is formed.

2. Add in butter & beat again until the dough is smooth.

3. Roll out the dough into a square (at least 2x the chocolate dough)

4. Put the chocolate dough on top of the bread dough & wrap it up.

5. Roll out the dough slowly until double of the original.

6. Fold the dough into 1/3 (2 times) & roll out.

7. Repeat step 5 & 6 again.

8. At the final roll out of the dough, divide the dough into 3 strips (but do not cut the dough totally) & do plaiting.

9. Place in a lightly greased loaf tin & proof for an hour.

10. Bake in a preheated oven @ 180C for 30mins.

Puff Puff Away......

Four years ago, I did this, and I did it again upon request of my neighbour who asked me to teach her, I prepare the ingredients and I did not inform her before hand, I tried it first in the morning, just in case it's a failure, turns out to be okay, but not so perfect and I am ready... Sad to say, she was busy and said some other day :(

Give mum 10 pieces of curry puff and she liked it, asked me how to do, told her and I told her, if she wanted to eat, maybe 4 years later.... hee! hee!

Chiam tao Luo Ti

I loved bread, there's alot of things, I want to do... Baguette is one of them.
Bought the baguette tray a few years ago, did not use it until now,when I saw Nasi Lemak Lover's blogspot and she happen to have the same tray and the bread looks beautiful, just like store bought. Decide to follow her using the tray and recipe.

I use one and half recipe to do 3 baguettes, For her she used bread flour, I run out of bread flour and I do half bread flour and half plain flour. The baguette turns out beautifully and we loved it.



We eat the baguette with muar otah and chilli crab.

Recipe

Easy French Bread
(recipe source: adapted from dailydelicious )


300g bread flour / high protein flour
1tsp honey
1 and 1/2tsp instant yeast
1tbsp Olive oil
200ml water
1 and 1/2tsp coarse sea salt


Some yellow cornmeal, for dusting and sprinkle over the pan
2 cups boiling water, for baking


Method
1. Mix olive oil, honey and water together in a bowl.
2. Put flour, instant yeast and salt in the mixing bowl, whisk to combine.
3. Slowly add in water mixture (No 1) into flour mixture(No 2), knead till elastic dough. Keep aside to rise until double size.
4. Place a baking paper or silicone baking mat over a sheet pan, or use a French bread pan (I use this one), sprinkle with the yellow cornmeal.
5. Divide the dough into 3 pieces.
6. Roll into balls and let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
7. Press the ball lightly and shape into a long oval, do the same with another ball.( I dusting the worktop with yellow cornmeal too)
8. Use the side of your hand press the center of the dough, and roll again (do it 2-3 times until you get a desired length )
9. Place the shaped dough over a prepared pan.
10. Let the dough rise until almost double in size, about 30 minutes.
11. Preheat the oven 220°C and place a roasting pan in the lowest shelf of the oven.
12. With a very sharp knife, make 3 or 4 diagonal cuts about 1/4 inch deep across top of each loaf. Put the bread into the oven and pour the boiling water into the roasting pan, bake for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.

Bread & Dip

Made foccasia today and made a dip to go with it for lunch.

Today's breadmaking, I did not use machine, I was taught to use throw, stretch and fold method. I found that it's was quite easy and this bread dough is quite forgiving that you do not need to do a window pane test, just get the dough smoother and doesn't stick to the table. It's done.


Made a bell pepper dip to go with it. yummy delicious.. hmmm

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Round 2

Bake pizza again, this time round using delay dough fermentation method, where you let the dough in frig overnight.

I have not buy a pizza peel or spade yet, my friend was telling me to use parchment paper to bake and halfway pull out the paper and continue baking, I was quite skeptical about it. She was sure can do it upon advise from another friend, surf the website and found out that there is a case,

Well, no harm trying, put rolled dough on parchment paper, topped with toppings and in the oven with pizza stone. After a few mins, I use a cake lifter to lift the dough and remove the paper, it works. Even though the parchment paper was in the oven for less than five minutes, it got slightly burnt.

Distribute to my neighbours, they like it.

Pizza Time

I now crazy about italian food, first pasta, now pizza but I am not crazy over risotto. All along, I was quite impressed with a small pizza oven, name G3 Ferrari Napoli Oven that sells at Tangs Department store for S$299.

Went with hubby over there, he was not impressed with the oven, so did one of my friend, she did advise me not jump into it too fast. Okay lah! i bought a pizza stone from there to try it first.



I remember my oven has a pizza funccion, I decide to use this function and also use ieatishootipost's pizza recipe to do it.

I use food processor to do the dough as what the blog says, I did not like the idea, I found that the motor gets heated up too easily and the soft dough got stuck in the shaft, the next time, I do, I will use my mixer.

Although, I do not have canned tomatoes, but I use tomato ketchup to do as a base for a starter and I do not have a perfect round for the cooked pizza but I loved the crust of the pizza.

Next shopping, I need to buy a wood pizza peel, it a must when you do pizza.

Below is the recipe cut and paste from the blog
1 1/2 cup Bread Flour
1 1/2 cup All purpose Flour
1 teaspoon yeast
3/4 tablespoon salt
1 1/4 cups cold water
3 tablespoons olive oil
Half cup semolina flour
Basically, you add all the dry ingredients into the food processor, then start by pulsing the dry ingredients first, then add the water and olive oil. Once all the flour and the water is just combined, stop the machine and let it rest for 20 mins. This resting period is important. This is when autolysis occurs and it makes it much easier to get that nice smooth and stretchable dough. After the 20 mins, turn the food processor on for around one to two minutes and you will end up with a smooth gooey, slime-like mess. All you have to do next is to dust it with flour and knead a couple of times by hand and you will get a dough ball as seen above.

Just leave this dough to rise in a warm humid area for an hour or so then punch it down and divide into four dough balls and leave it to rise in a container brushed with a thin layer of olive oil. You can rise it overnight in the fridge or for about 1.5 hours in an oven with a bowl of hot water.

In the meantime, you can start making the tomato sauce.

What you need is 2 cans of whole tomatoes, garlic, onions and olive oil. Now, the Italians don't even bother to cook their sauce beforehand. However, I personally prefer sauteeing the garlic, onions and adding the chopped tomatoes, oregano, salt and pepper and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.

cream cheese bread

First time, try Barcook's raisin cream bread, find that it's quite special, whenever, I was around the area, I would patronise the shop.

I,myself would like to do bread, still not a expertise on this, but have improved on my rounding skills, look up recipes and decide to raisin cream cheese bread, and after soaking the raisins, found that I didn't like the taste of the soaked raisins, I use cranberry instead.




I made sure to close the ends of the dough tight after wrapping the cream cheese mixture, but after baking, two of them, the fillings seep out. I have to be more careful the next time , when i decide to do this again.

Recipe:

400 gm Bread Flour
100 gm Cake Flour
100 gm Sugar
20 gm Milk Powder
10 gm Yeast
100 gm Butter
250 gm Water
1 Egg
5 gm Salt
60 gm Dried Cranberry

Put in 2 types of flour into the mixing bowl.
Add in sugar, milk powder, yeast.
Use dough hook and mix the dry ingredients.
Add in egg and water and beat till it becomes dough.
Add in butter and beat till smooth and elastic.
Add in salt and beat for a while.
Add in dried cranberries.
Let it proof till triple in size.
Cut and weight, round up each individual pieces. rest for 10 mins.
Flatten and put in the fillings and wrap tight and let it proof till double in size.
Bake at 190 ~ 200 deg.

Fillings:

250 gm cream cheese
100 gm icing sugar

Beat till soft and creamy, froze the mixture before use.

One a Penny, Two a Penny...

One a penny, Two a penny, hot cross bun....... this, I wanted to do a long time, never came to do it, even though I have recipes...

Decide to do today, went to buy bread flour from my place area, went to 2 supermarkets, surprising no bread flour on the shelves, luckily went to the 3rd one, manage to get but not golden syrup.. hmmm... did all the bakers going for the same thing?

One thing sbout hot cross bun and stollen, they have almost the same thing, spices and fruits. My husband never did like cinnamon, but I like and I was wondering why he like indian food so much where else the spices are stronger... weird person.

Just now, went to distribute baked bread to my neighbours, hope they like it...

A Happy Easter Day and God Bless.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Christmas does really gets into me, Duuno where I got the energy, juz feel like doing baking and trying things.


Always curious about christmas stollen and I try one of the recipes that was given to me. Was statisfied with the finished products and especially from my loved ones and they loved it. Last night made another batch to be given away. Well, that's the spirit of Christmas.

hibernating

Have been hibernating, in true fact just plain lazy... I like Jane love to eat bread. Today made potato foccasia bread for lunch.

Sad to say, my oriental man do not like the taste of rosemary or any other western herbs, not like me, I eat anything especially western food. Should cook more with herbs to let him immune to smell and taste... hee!hee!

Hunger

Last friday(Good Friday), was out shopping with hubby to buy a new sofa and we had a late lunch. We won't be able to have our usual dinner , only supper. He asked me to make bread.

Tried out the soft bun recipe and manage to do ham and cheese bun but my rounding of dough was not so good but at least I manage to make it look presentable. hee! hee! This is my second try and I quite like the recipe because the next day the bread is soft but not as soft as outside bakery where they put bread improver. I quite like it.