My friend Lynne Lee Diep recently shared a wholewheat roll recipe by Alex Goh. The recipe uses an overnight dough starter made from white strong bread flour. I tried the original recipe and it produced a lovely soft roll. I then decided to try this recipe but with wholewheat flour for the overnight starter dough and am thrilled with the […]
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I tested out this recipe today: http://thedomesticgoddesswannabe.com/2015/11/coffee-chiffon-cake/ I omitted the baking powder and found that this cake did not inflate as much as my normal chiffon’s, next time I will add the baking powder. The coffee taste is prominent but not excessively strong.
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Chiffon cakes were invented by Henry Baker in the early 1900’s he kept the recipe a secret for 2 decades before he sold it to Betty Crocker (General Mills) in 1947. General Mills published the recipe, here is a link to the original http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/chiffon-cake-new-sponge-cake-in-1948.html. Chiffon cakes are normally baked in a tube pan like this: You can purchase tube pans from […]
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When I try a new chiffon recipe, I like to scale it down to a 3 egg recipe and use my 7 inch aluminium push pan tin from Lakeland. I also prefer to use large eggs. Below are recipes I have tried and scaled down along with comments. Although I have added the baking powder I do not add any […]
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Ingredients 3 egg whites 40g caster sugar 3 egg yolks 30g sugar 63g vegetable oil 200g mashed banana’s (use very ripe, black bananas for a full flavour) 75g Self Raising Flour (sieved) Heat fan oven to 160 whisk the egg yolks and and sugar until it is pale and thick add the oil vegetable oil to the yolk mixture […]
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This is what I achieved in the kitchen today:
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Some cupcakes and cake pops I have made:
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Chinese Egg Tarts using Christine’s recipe: http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2009/03/cantonese-egg-tarts-recipe.html I have tried baking these using ready rolled puff pastry and it works just as well, although the puff takes a bit longer to cook. The secret to these tarts is the oven temperature. I have found that baking these using the bottom heat only ption without the fan function is best. I […]
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