Happy Easter everyone!
So, given that I had 4 days at home with no plans at all. I decided to set myself a challenge and try to make the ... CROISSANT!
So, technically, making the croissant is not hard, its just the time and effort you need to put in for it to actually eventuate.
I had time, I had the ingredients, and I wanted to make sure I could practice some of the pastry that I would make in Paris. So, here are the results!
So, given all the effort of folding, waiting for it to rest, folding all over again. I got so excited that I eventually had rolled them out, and they were ready for the oven .. that I forgot to brush it with egg wash.
So disappointed and sad that I forgot the final step. But, I must say, given how much effort I put into these little babies. They weren't as fragrant as the ones from the Dutch bakeries in Wynyard station.
At least I have ticked croissants off my To Do list. Now, to think of what to bake next!!
xoxo
Mich
Since I've been making so much bread these days, it only seemed fitting if I made some Hot Cross Buns for the festivities.
I've always hated traditional Hot Cross Buns in the past, because they were full of raisins and I never liked the spices in them.
So, I made a batch of choc-chip ones and also a raisin version too.
I used an easy to follow recipe from Women's Day. Made it twice exactly the same except substituting rasins with choc chips. I only used just a little over 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, hence, it was very subtle in any spices.
AND... who knew it would be so hard just to pipe the crosses on the buns. It is a flour and water mixture, and its actually so slimy and thick that it was so hard to pipe. So you can see that for my raisin batch, there are 2 buns where the crosses turned out more like a splat.
Here are the results
xoxo
Mich
Another month.. another Daring Baker's challenge!
This month, it was bread related again. I recently got handed down an unused bread machine, which I'm loving. And, in approximately 3 more hours, it will have made me a loaf of raisin bread!
Yummo!
But, back to the challenge. So this month, we had to make Dutch Crunch Bread. I've vaguely heard of it before, but never tasted it.
Essentially its a normal loaf of bread or a roll, with a rice flour coating on top. This is spread on the surface prior to baking, and then gives a crackly, crunch, tiger / giraffe looking like texture at the top.
Taste wise.. its bread, so nothing different there. But, I'm not sure if I hadn't set it properly prior to putting them in the oven, but my crackles looked a little funky.
I used the recipe that they suggested from Baking Bites, as I'm still hesitant to stray away from suggested recipes. I'm too chicken for that.
Anyway.. here are the results:
Well .. what do you think?
Or maybe I just burnt them. Anyway, another month is coming around the corner.
xoxo
Mich
Happy Easter everyone!
So, given that I had 4 days at home with no plans at all. I decided to set myself a challenge and try to make the ... CROISSANT!
So, technically, making the croissant is not hard, its just the time and effort you need to put in for it to actually eventuate.
I had time, I had the ingredients, and I wanted to make sure I could practice some of the pastry that I would make in Paris. So, here are the results!
So, given all the effort of folding, waiting for it to rest, folding all over again. I got so excited that I eventually had rolled them out, and they were ready for the oven .. that I forgot to brush it with egg wash.
So disappointed and sad that I forgot the final step. But, I must say, given how much effort I put into these little babies. They weren't as fragrant as the ones from the Dutch bakeries in Wynyard station.
At least I have ticked croissants off my To Do list. Now, to think of what to bake next!!
xoxo
Mich
Since I've been making so much bread these days, it only seemed fitting if I made some Hot Cross Buns for the festivities.
I've always hated traditional Hot Cross Buns in the past, because they were full of raisins and I never liked the spices in them.
So, I made a batch of choc-chip ones and also a raisin version too.
I used an easy to follow recipe from Women's Day. Made it twice exactly the same except substituting rasins with choc chips. I only used just a little over 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, hence, it was very subtle in any spices.
AND... who knew it would be so hard just to pipe the crosses on the buns. It is a flour and water mixture, and its actually so slimy and thick that it was so hard to pipe. So you can see that for my raisin batch, there are 2 buns where the crosses turned out more like a splat.
Here are the results
xoxo
Mich
Another month.. another Daring Baker's challenge!
This month, it was bread related again. I recently got handed down an unused bread machine, which I'm loving. And, in approximately 3 more hours, it will have made me a loaf of raisin bread!
Yummo!
But, back to the challenge. So this month, we had to make Dutch Crunch Bread. I've vaguely heard of it before, but never tasted it.
Essentially its a normal loaf of bread or a roll, with a rice flour coating on top. This is spread on the surface prior to baking, and then gives a crackly, crunch, tiger / giraffe looking like texture at the top.
Taste wise.. its bread, so nothing different there. But, I'm not sure if I hadn't set it properly prior to putting them in the oven, but my crackles looked a little funky.
I used the recipe that they suggested from Baking Bites, as I'm still hesitant to stray away from suggested recipes. I'm too chicken for that.
Anyway.. here are the results:
Well .. what do you think?
Or maybe I just burnt them. Anyway, another month is coming around the corner.
xoxo
Mich
