Focaccia and Bread Sticks, I thought it would be much quicker, however today's lab has taken a little longer than our 3 hours. We are starting the morning making focaccia dough using our Kitchen Aid stand mixers, a bit of a learning curve but not so scary anymore. As our focaccia is rising, we are going to make the one hour bread stick, similar to the focaccia recipe but more sugar and no oil. The breadstick recipe rests for 10 minutes before you shape it and let it rise.
I spent a few years working at Earl's Restaurants and learned a few things, such as parm dip and panbread, essentially soft thick herby bread with a salty sweet dressing. Delicious! Enjoy!
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At the beginning of this class, I sent out a survey asking what you want to learn how to make...quite a few people have requested BROWNIES, I just so happen to have a delicious recipe that I will share. The easy brownie recipe. Something to note...brownies are considered a bar cookie, meaning you could drop them on a cookie sheet like a cookie and they will still work. A couple of things to remember when baking brownies, they are meant to be kinda gooey- do not overcook them! I made my frosting as the bars were baking and then plopped the icing all over the brownie...let the frosting melt a little THEN connect the dabs. The other recipe we are making is a chocolate chip cookie recipe. I love the Anna Olson recipe containing cornstarch. When making cookies, the technique you are learning is the creaming method. If my butter (margarine) is cold, soften it in the microwave in 10 second increments, this will prevent the fat from becoming liquid. Something I noticed in one of the units was measuring the wrong amount of flour, this resulted in a very flat, crisp yet chewy cookie. The sugar and egg are what provided a majority of the structure.
Our second method is the Muffin method. This technique is extremely simple however hard to execute, almost everyone over-mixes their batter. Very few dishes are needed in this recipe, one for dry ingredients and one for wet. I use a fork to fold everything together and spoons to fill the tin. Our first recipe is a simple cornbread muffin. I like to enhance this with a 1/2 cup of cheese and some finely chopped jalapeños, delicious with a chili. Our second recipe today is a Mixed Berry Crumble muffin. The key with this recipe is to ensure your berries are FROZEN, add them to the flour mixture and coat with dry ingredients before adding the liquid. If you over-mix it, the batter will turn blue!
Welcome to Introduction to baking! Yesterday we started with making biscuits, no instructions! You may have noticed things did not go as planned...thats ok F.A.I.L is not a bad word, it just means FIRST. ATTEMPT. IN. LEARNING. I did do a demo after you had baked yours and gave everyone an option to try again today. One recipe, two days, 3 different products. I gave everyone the option to bring in cheese or chocolate chips to change out their basic biscuit recipe and a few people did. I can honestly say... much better! Finally a quick little demo, on how to modify a recipe ... roll out the dough and make cinnamon buns... add 1 tablespoon of sugar to the flour mixture, roll into a rectangle, spread with 2 tablespoons of butter and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of cinnamon. Bake in a muffin tin at 450 for 15 minutes. AMAZING!
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