Pizza and Ciabatta

Well yeah sorry about being gone I was busy with the first day of school. Umm...I haven't baked much this week. I did get chance to make some pizza and ciabatta bread. Both came out really nice.. the crust on the pizza was nice and soft but I found a new recipe that I want to try. I have some scrap dough so I was thinking to try making pizza bits. And the ciabatta was nice...it had some really nice holes but the crust was soft. I'll have to try using some steam the next time also I think I should let it raise a bit more.

Decisions...Decisions

Well I got into a bit of an accident so there goes my money for any ingredients for a long while. But that gives me time to think about exactly I want to try. So I think I want to try the Souffle, Chocolate Charlotte, or the Carrot Cake petite fours. Well Carnival is coming up and well we have to bake quite a few things.

OH Well!!

So I tried the chocolate puff pastry...and well it didn't turn out too well. For one the pastry is really bitter. May be next I will try to substitute the butter for melted chocolate instead of adding cocoa powder. Anyway I made cream horn shells. Don't know what to fill then will. I have leftover chocolate butter-cream and whipping cream so may be those. Oh I also going try to make currents roll and may be sausage rolls. It is just a thought. I also got a few new recipes that I am dying to try - a carrot cake and the lemon bars I mentioned earlier. Plus I start school on Monday - can't wait to see what happens.

Chocolate Puff Pastry Pending!!!

Say that three times fast. OK well it is actually quite easy. So in terms of baking...no baking took place but the prep for baking is done. So may be tomorrow I'll prepare the CHOCOLATE PUFF PASTRY dough properly. I figure I might chocolate cream horms or something else. I also got a lemon bar recipe from Jo. Have to try it someday..I have some friends who love lemon bars. Another friend suggested that I try to do flaky pie pastry for a currents rolls (I have a lot of raisin left over so I could you use them)

Weird Science

So today I did a bit of Weird Science. I finally got flour and some other stuff..but yeah back to the point I baked up some Blondies. Well they aren't really yellow but they are technically not Brownies because they don't contain cocoa powder or chocolate. I was toying with the idea of making either Chocolate Puff Pastry or Chocolate Souffle. I never really made a souffle so I might try those instead. Oh I also bought cream horn shells so I practice those.

Anyway till we meet next time.

No Flour!

Well there is absolutely no flour in the house. No cake nor bread flour. It is ashame. I am ashamed. I delivered my apple puffs to some people and I got mixed reviews. Some said everything was great - pastry was flaky and light and the apples had a great taste. While some said the the pastry was a little uncooked and they could hardly taste the apples. I plan to try it again and may be blind bake the pastry first then bake the apples for a while then they might a bit more crispy and tasty. I also need to make it a bit smaller. I plan to get flour tomorrow and make more pastry or may be scones. Not sure yet. I also will take my time with it...I'll rest the dough between every two folds.

Anyway I'll sign off for now and I'll post something tomorrow I hope.

Apple Puff

Hey so due to my boredom I made apple puffs. They came out quite well. I think I can put the photo I took of it. Trying to practice as much as possible before I cater my aunt's tea party. I came up with a menu for the party. Well at least stuff that I can make well that she can order. I was hoping to get some help from my lecturer in school on ideas as well as comments.