Whipped Cream + Cake=Devil?!
This is what I had in mind the first time I noticed whipped cream is being used to bake a cake. I believe most people knows what whipped cream is made of and thus how massive amount of calorie and fats it carries. So if using whipped cream as a main ingredient in making a cake, can one imagine how long he/she needs to exercise to shed off the fats?
Having said so, my taste bud has already battled win over my conscience. I am already on my way to try out the recipe baking my own pound cake.
I like to use cake flour, or some other people may called it as low gluten flour, if baking a cake. My pound cake consists of cake flour, unsalted butter, salt, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and whipped cream. I used fresh dessert whipped cream which could be bought readily from supermarket.
Initially, I was expecting something resembles a milky smell when the cake is done. To my surprise, my kitchen and hallway were surrounded with sweet vanilla scent after an hour of baking.
The cake taste very moist and burst with fragrant vanilla smell. Even after finished eating, I could still smell the vanilla flavor from the container of which used to store the cake.
Believe me, it is a very delicious cake worth gaining extra pounds of weight!
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Cranberry Butter Cookies
My first recipe:-
CRANBERRY BUTTER COOKIES
CRANBERRY BUTTER COOKIES
Ever wondered how to bake your own version of a crunchy, creamy and butter-rich flavored cookies at home?
I love cranberry cookies from the moment of my first bite. I love the soft cookies from Mrs. Fields and the fragrant butter smell from May's cookies made me addicted especially to cranberry butter cookies. So I decided to try incorporating both versions and make my own.
After few searches through bakery books, I decided to adopt ingredients such as low-gluten flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar,egg and some dried cranberries to bake my cookies.
Sometimes I can bake nice, crunchy butter cookies, other times, either the cookies are too soft or too hard to eat. I first suspected it was the oven temperature that causes the cookies' textures problem.
When normal conventional oven calls for 15 minutes to bake, my fan based oven will need at least an additional of 15 minutes ie.30 minutes to bake. But even after adjusting the oven temperature, most of the time, I still ended up with hard cookies on hand.
So what has gone wrong?
This time I decided to increase the quantity of unsalted butter used in the recipe.
As at now, I am still in the midst of trial and error experimenting the exact quantity of butter to be used in order to achieve the best result.
Having said so, after trying few brands of unsalted butter, I highly recommend to use the famous French 'President' brand. The creamy texture of the butter makes it easier to mix and combine with sugar to create a light and fluffy effect.
Any suggestion welcome!
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