Cinnamon Rolls

I've been planning to bake the cinnamon rolls for ages!! And finally I've got time on my hands yesterday evening to bake these rolls. They're delicious and not too sweet for my liking.

So, here is the recipe for Cinnamon Rolls.




Cinnamon Rolls
Source: www.mekarwangi.blogspot.com

Bread dough:

• 250g bread flour (sieved)
  
• 50g plain flour (sieved)
• 50g butter
• 200g mixture of 1egg and fresh milk
• 30g of sugar
• 6g dry yeast
• 1/2 tsp of salt

Cinnamon Sugar:

• 50g brown sugar
• 25g walnuts ( I used 50g of mixed nuts and 50g of raisins)
• 1 tbsp of flour
• 1 tbsp of cinnamon powder

1. Mix everything together.
   

• 50g softened butter to brush onto the dough

Cream cheese frosting:

• 25g cream cheese
• 40g icing sugar
• 25g butter
• 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract

1. Mix everything together with a whisk. The mixture will turn into a creamy cheesy frosting!
   

Method:

1. Mix every ingredients for the bread dough in BM and select dough programme, let the machine do its job.
2. After that, take out the dough and and roll the dough about 20x40cm. Make sure to move around your dough when rolling so that it will not stick to your board.
3. Brush the softened butter onto the rolled dough and leave 1cm the upper dough unbuttered.
4. Spread the Cinnamon Sugar mixture onto the brushed area. Roll the dough together until becoming a log.
5. Cut the log evenly into 16 pieces. Put each pieces into a papercup.
6. Proof the cinnamon rolls until it double the size (40mins to 1hour)
7. Bake in the oven at 160'C for 12mins or until golden brown.
8. Then, while the cinnamon rolls are still hot, glaze them with the cream cheese frosting.
9. They are now ready to be eaten!

So there goes the recipe! Happy baking peeps!

Instant White Raisins and Walnut Bread

I've baked a sandwich bread this evening for tea and breakfast tomorrow. Its quite tasty and easy to bake as I used Tesco Crusty White Bread Mix (you could use any brand of white bread mix) and I added a few ingredients to flavour up the bread (so it instant no more! ;P)

It turned out pretty good. It was not overly sweet (I didn't add any extra sugar but I added some raisins), fluffy and soft. I definitely will bake this bread again! Hope you would try my recipe and enjoy eating the bread :))

Sliced and ready to be eaten!

So here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 250g of Tesco Crusty White Bread Mix (You could use any brand of white bread mix)
• 2 egg yolks
• 100ml of fresh milk (You could use water)
• 4 tbsp water roux (recipe is here)
• 50g raisins/sultanas
• 25g walnut (toasted and roughly chopped)
• 2tbsp of frsh milk+4-5drops of honey for glazing

Method:

1. Put everything in the BM. Select the dough setting and let the BM do its job. 
2. After that, took out the dough and divide the dough into two and round them up into balls.
3. Put them into sandwich pan and proof for 40mins-1hour or until they double the size. Then glaze the bread with the fresh milk and honey glazing.
4. Bake them in the oven at 175'c for 15-20mins or until golden brown. Take it out and let the bread cool on a wire rack. Slice the bread and it's ready to be served.
5. To store the bread, keep it in the air-tight container to keep the freshness.

Assorted Doughnuts

MrHubby was oncalled yesterday and I decided that I would make him doughnuts for his tea. I was planning to make these doughnuts since last week as it was Doughnuts' Week last week. This recipe is a keeper. The doughnuts were so soft and delish. And I made white chocolate and milk chocolate topping and sprinkles (roasted almond flakes, chocolate rice, sugar sprinkles) for the doughnuts.

It was cold and raining yesteday afternoon when me and Babyzara walked to the hospital. Babyzara was excited to go out for a walk but I didn't as I'll be walking in the rain. MrHubby drove to the hospital yesterday morning so I have no choice but to walk to the hospital. (took about 20mins to get there walking)

Assorted doughnuts on plates in Doc Restroom

So here is the recipe:

Source: www.bisousatoi.com

Ingredients:

• 500g bread flour/ strong white flour
• 100g sugar
• 11g instant yeast (I used 7g/1 packet instant yeast)
• 4 egg yolks
• 200ml water 
• 100g butter (I used 50g butter and 50g shortening)
• 1 tsp salt
• Cooking oil to fry the doughnuts

Decorations (use your imagination):

• Roasted almonds
• White chocolate
• Milk chocolate
• Sugar sprinkles

Note: Easy way to melt the chocolate is using microwave. Put your chocolate into microwave-safe bowl and using the full power, microwave your chocolate 10secs at each cycle. After each cycle stir your chocolate. Repeat the steps until your chocolate is melted and shiny.

Method:

1. I dumped everything (except for the cooking oil) into the bread maker (BM) and select the dough setting. Let the BM do its job (1hour and 30mins)
2. After that, took the dough out and punch the air out. Make the doughnut shape.
3. Let the doughnuts proof for about 40mins-1hour.
4. Then fry them on medium heat for 2-3minutes on each side. (be careful not to overcook the doughnuts)
5. Let them cool on wire rack then you could start to decorate them as you like.

Its easy and its yummy! 

Sweet Aromatic Honey Bun

I've been craving for Malaysian sweet, soft and fluffy buns and they don't have them here in Ireland..my favourites are the red bean buns, pandan buns and plain sweet buns. They are delish! Before MrHubby bought me the BM, it never crossed my mind that I would be making my own buns and bread. But after been following a few blogs that featured so many delicious fluffy bread and buns recipe, I've made my decision that I would definitely will try baking them. So I asked MrHubby to buy me the BM ;) Thanks to MrHubby, my craving for fluffy and soft buns is fulfilled!

The recipe as follow (would make one sandwich bread and one round 23cm cake tin buns)
Source: www.jintanmanis.com

Sweet and fluffy red bean paste buns

Ingredients:
500gram bread flour/high protein flour/strong white flour
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp powder milk
3 tbsp granulated sugar (I added 6tbsp-sweeten the bread up to my liking)
1 egg (lightly beaten)- leave about 1tbsp of the egg for the egg wash
3 tbsp shortening
220ml warm water
6gram dry yeast
4 tbsp water roux
1 tsp salt
1tsp pure vanilla extract
Filling of your choice (I used red bean paste)
Sesame seeds for decoration

Egg wash: 1tbsp of lightly beaten egg, 2tbsp of fresh milk, 1tsp of honey (mix well)

Method:

1. Put everything into BM, select dough setting and let the BM do its job.
2. Took the dough out and punch a bit to let the air out. Then divide the dough into 2 parts.
3. First part, divide the dough again into 2 parts and round them up, then put them into the sandwich pan (see picture below)
   
4. Second part, divide the dough into 7-9 small dough and put the filling of your choice into the dough. Put them into the cake tin. (see picture below)
5. Then proof them for 40mins-1hour or until double the size. Then brush the egg wash onto them. Sprinkle the sesame seed onto the buns with the filling.
   
6. Bake at 180'C for 16-18mins until the bun top becomes golden. Cool the buns on wire rack and keep them in air-tight container to retain the freshness.

Note: My oven only needs 150'C for 20mins baking

water roux

• 25g plain flour

• 125ml water

whisk the flour and water well, make sure there's no clumps and cook it on slow heat for 2-3mins at 65'C and be careful not to burn it

BM doing its job

Ready to be proved

After 40mins they double in size!!

My sweet aromatic honey sanwich loaf

Yummylicious red bean buns..so fluffy and soft!

So, what are you waiting for?? Go and bake these delish buns! Happy baking peeps!!

The last resort

Its been 3days since my last post. Not that I was away/busy but I was not been able to post new entry. I'm not sure what was wrong, until now I couldn't solve the problem. The field content was loading non-stop and that's why I couldn't type anything on it. I've upgraded the Firefox, i tried to use internet explorer and google chrome. None of those work. So my last resort at the moment, change the template. This post won't look the same as previous post but I have no other choice as I'm dying to post new recipe that I've tried 3days ago.

So here is the recipe that I've tried, Pau Gebu (Fluffy Steamed Bun). Credited to www.jintanmanis.com for the recipe. Excellent indeed!
I made half of the recipe and I got 9 big and fluffy buns!


Ready to be steamed!


Ready to be eaten!


Look! Its so fluffy and yummy! Even MrHubby was happy with these steamed buns!!

Bahan-bahannya (Ingredients)

500 gram tepung pau ( 500g low protein flour/cake flour)
3 sudu besar shortening ( 3tbsp shortening)
220ml air suam+1 sudu kecil garam (220ml warm water + 1tsp salt)
3　sudu besar gula (3tbsp sugar)
2 sudu kecil baking powder (2tsp baking powder)
4 sudu besar water roux (4tbsp water roux)
2 1/2 sudu kecil yis (2 1/2 tsp dry yeast)

Cara-cara untuk membuat pau/bun:

1. Masukkan semua bahan dalam bekas adunan dan uli sehingga tidak melekat pada tangan,(nak guna BM pun boleh) pastikan doh elastik ye, kemudian perap dalam 40 minit atau sehingga satu jam, tumbuk-tumbukkan doh keluarkan angin.


2. Bahagi doh pada beberapa bebola kecil dan masukkan 2 sudu kecil inti kelapa (i've used red bean paste and brown sugar+coconut(recipe in my previous post) for the filling) dan tutup kemas, ulang langkah tadi hingga doh habis.

3. Lapik pau dengan baking sheet atau daun pisang, dan biarkan pau naik dua kali ganda lebih kurang 1 jam, Panaskan pengukus, dan pastikan air betul-betul mendidih, kukus pau dengan api sederhana, tak perlu api terlalu besar selama lebih kurang 7 hingga 8 minit sahaja, bergantung pada saiz pau

My way:
*note: I've used BM and dumped everything in the BM and let the BM (dough setting) do its job ;)
Then, divide the dough into equalish balls, add the filllings then let them prove to double the size (40mins-1hour). Then they were ready to be steamed!

resepi water roux
25 gram tepung gandum (25g plain flour)
125 ml air (125ml water)

cara-cara untuk membuat water roux
masukan semua bahan di dalam periuk dan kacau sehingga pekat dengan menggunakan api perlahan setelah pekat angkat dan sejukkan sebelum digunakan.
(whisk the flour and water well, make sure there's no clumps and cook it on slow heat for 2-3mins at 65'C and be careful not to burn it)
Note: water-roux paste could last for 3days before it went stale. And keep it refrigerated and make sure to bring the temp to room temp before using it.


water-roux paste (which could be the substitution for bread softener/improver)

The Royal Wedding

Today was a good day,with good weather and good food ;) And it's the day when Prince William and Kate Middleton have married at the Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was beautiful and they looked lovely together.

Official wedding picture

Gorgeous Kate with husband William

Pictures source:Google

As for me, it was an ordinary day when I spent my time playing and entertaining my precious little gem Zara (she turns 13months today!). She is really cheeky now, always want to play! She is just the cutest baby in my eyes (of course other mothers would say the same about their babies) This evening, I'd planned to go out for brisk walk (would be the first time since..err..since forever ;p) but the plan has changed. I was in my sport attire when my neighbour (Mrs J) called me and told me she wanted to come over to watch the Royal Wedding. While waiting for her to come over, I took Zara out for a little walkie..Zara is just too fast! She just started walking about 3weeks ago and now she's flying! She had a few slipped but she got up quickly on her own and she won't let me hold her hands. Such an independent little gem she is! Mummy is so proud of you!!

And what did I cook today? Since Mr Hubby is down with flu, I've decided its better for him to have somekind of soup, so I've made chicken soup with rice. It will be ready for him when he's back from oncall. It's 9.26pm and he's not home yet..and since he bought me the BreadMaker(BM) that I had longed for sometimes, I've made him some sausage rolls as well. The recipe i've got from tiffinbiru.blogspot.com but i've changed some of the recipe. Dont know where to find bread softener/bread improver here in Ireland, I ended up substitute those with baking powder and baking soda. I also added up a tablespoon of lecithin (as I read somewhere that lecithin could also act as bread softener). And the result, not so fluffy bread..boleh la buat hilang craving roti sosej Malaysia. Here goes the recipe..

Source: www.tiffinbiru.blogspot.com
BAHAN-BAHANNYA :-)
250 gram tepung roti (high protein flour)
50 gram gula halus @ gula kastor
1/2 camca teh garam halus
10 g susu tepung
1/4 camca teh bread improver ---> changed to soda bicarbonate
1/4 camca teh bread softerner ---> changed to baking powder
*add 1 sudu besar lecithin powder
30 g telur (pecahkan 1 biji, kacau sedikit dan timbang)
6 gram instant yeast
20 g mentega
125 ml air suam (kalau guna Breadmaker guna air biasa)
14 batang sosej "Ayamas"
Bijan untuk hiasan

CARA MEMBUATNYA :-)

1. UNTUK DOH :- Larutkan yis dalam air suam, biar berbuih. Satukan semua bahan lain kecuali mentega, masukkan bancuhan yis dan gaul rata hingga menjadi doh. Tambah mentega dan terus menguli hingga mendapat doh yang kenyal dan anjal (kurang lebih 20 minit). Bulat2kan doh, letak dalam bekas dan balut dengan plastik bersih, biarkan 45 minit hingga naik. KAEDAH LAIN :- Satukan semua bahan2 untuk doh dalam breadmaker, pilih setting untuk "DOH" dan tekan "ON", tunggu hingga siap (selalunya BM mengambil masa 30 minit menguli dan 1 jam memerap, ikut jenis BM masing2)
2. UNTUK SOSEJ ROLL :- Celur sekejap sosej, tos, sejukkan dan lap kering. Tumbuk doh untuk membuang udara, bagi doh pada 14 bahagian. Ambil satu bahagian, tarik sikit dan lilit pada sosej, tapi pastikan hujung dan pangkal sosei tidak tertutup. Lilit dengan kaedah menindih dan hujung doh diselitkan bawah lilitan, tujuan untuk mengelakkan dok terbuka bila kembang nanti. Susun dalam loyang yang telah dilenser dengan sedikit mentega. Buat hingga siap.
3. Biar 45 minit, sapu baki telur dan tabur dengan bijan. Bakar 25 minit pada suhu 190C dalam oven yang telah dipanaskan hingga kuning keemasan. Sejukkan atas jaringan sebelum dihidangkan.

Note to self: Next time, balut roti tebal2 sket..tadi roti nipis jadi slightly crunchy. Tp tetap sedap..hehe.. (mode perasan)