#newbaker

[bakingserye]

Tutorial how to bake a cake

[emmasbaking]

Hello everyone! Last weekend I made brownies to kick off my baking journey! I vowed not to use a box and made these from scratch. Though simple, they ended up being delicious!

[drockhughes]

I could get used to this... #newbaker #pumpkinpie #thanksgiving (at Auburntown, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIFEtirFNgG/?igshid=z7iuyu1o8q4e

[amyminori]

Fresh baked 🍞, homemade by me 😁 #homebaked #baking #breadmaking #yeast #newbaker #bread #Food #FoodPhotography #homecooked #homemade #cooking #makingfood #cookingfun #Fun #tasty #yum #YummyYummyInMyTummy (at Alhambra, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CESm19ZB6dz/?igshid=1bfe6zd4fbj5s

[dwbakingblog]

1st time making pizza!

date & time: march 14, 2020 saturday 4:17pm- 6:57pm.. total about 2hrs& 40min.

TASTE was good! What can go wrong with wholesome store-bought tomato sauce w/ onions and mushrooms! :D DOUGH tasted nice! Just about right flavor. TEXTURE was very bouncy/ cushiony/ thick because I forgot to fork out some of the air out of dough x). SHAPE & COLOR were a bit cracked but pretty consistent overall! It was a bit puffy because I forgot to fork out some of the air holes :D. note: don’t forget to fork out some air next time

here i made a video for visualization:

recipe i followed: https://youtu.be/qoCvzWav828

[dwbakingblog]

eighth bake

improvised semi sweet chocolate minty buttercream cake recipe i partially followed: https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/prue-leith-chocolate-mini-rolls/ replaced tool: it’s the same one that i used for “chocolate mini rolls” but instead of using two flat tins to bake, i used one deeper square tin.

i started around 9pm when ‘7th bake’ loaf was proving.. and i was done with this around 9:40pm.

cake was not as spongy as i wanted and buttercream was grainy. not sure about what to do with cake b/c it is meringue batter but for buttercream-- i learned from Andrew, gbbo show, that sugar has to be added little bit at a time so cream doesn’t become grainy. will try that next time.

 i have photos and a few video clips:

[dwbakingblog]

fifth and sixth bake

jan 12, 2020 sunday BRITISH BLOOMER and SOUFFLE PANCAKE

made souffle pancake and enjoyed in between bloomer. started around 4:11pm and finished bloomer, enjoyed around 8:30-9pm

i’ll never double bake like this again

Getting ready to prepare dough for "Bloomer” so i can get started on “Souffle Pancake” while “Bloomer” is proving :).

Salt on one side, yeast on the other, olive oil over.

Cleaned the counter top so I can work the dough! Phew.

Mixing? dough with my hand!

Little blob of casualty.

Whoo. Dough forming. Sticky and wet but Paul says this is ok.

Oil on counter to knead dough. Actually it was so sticky that it was clumping onto my fingers like crazy to a point where I could not see my hands nor move them around.. like boxing gloves. So I added more flour... which I think I made a mistake of.. b/c it felt a bit dry the second time I kneaded it.

Dough back in the bowl and covered for proving.

Now preparing to make “Souffle Pancake”! Yay!!

WARNING: Loud hand mixer whisking video.

Beating egg whites to make meringue. Mmmmmm...

Dough is proving! My baby :).

“Souffle Pancake” dough put onto pan to cook! mmmmmHHmmmm looks sooo FLUFFYYY

Flippin the “S.P”. You can see the jiggles. I should have made them higher though. It is not AS jiggly.

Whoo!!! It’s DONE!!!!!! Not bad for 2nd time I think..

Sharin~

I forgot to take photo when proving was done. It looked fluffy and round~ and it was pulling SO satisfyingly!!

Look at video below. 

Whoo that stretchy goodness. Time to knock all the air out.

Air has been knocked out and I tried my best to kneaded learning technique from Paul. Time to prove again in this shape. As you can see, it looks a little clumpy.. I think it is because I added too much flour before thinking dough was too wet and not it got very dry... :[

Recipe says to prove it in a plastic bag but I don’t have any bag big enough to not let the dough touch the bag when it rises so I proved it in the oven. Heat was not on at all.

Proved! Yay! but it proved side ways, oops. Lol! I wish Paul can tell me what I did wrong @.@.

Sprayed water and put some flour! It felt really soft and bouncy :).

Put slashes with serrated knife but maybe it was a bad idea b/c slashes look really lumpy! :( Eeek..

Anyway! Baking now!!

WHOOOO!!! WHAT!!!!!!!! My first bread!! Baked! Crazy!! It’s REALLL!!!

Dusted off some cooked flour on the outside. Keke. Cooling now.

Cutting! Yeah!!

Annddddd ... there it is :) a filtered photo b/c I realized my cutting board doesn’t look too nice. And my dinosaurs here too :) Tada!!

souffle pancake

recipe video: https://youtu.be/pQGJ7o4oFe0

tools: large bowl, big glass bowl, 2-3 small bowls, large wooden spoon, silicone spatula, large pan, large circular cookie sheet for covering, baking scale, flat spatula, stove, timer.

replaced ingredients: oatmeal i.o. whole milk, confection sugar i.o. regular sugar.

british bloomer

recipe video: https://youtu.be/tp5H87Su1jE recipe text: https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/paul-hollywood-swhitebloomerbread.html

tools used: clean counter top, large metal bowl, oven, circular cookie sheet for covering, baking scale, oven mittens, serrated knife, cutting board, cooling rack, towel, oven,  timer.

replaced ingredients: all purpose flour i.o. strong flour.

[dwbakingblog]

first bake

first bake was “chocolate mini roll cakes” by prue leith.

dec 7, 2019 saturday

Wow, I had no idea what I was doing.

Mind you, this is my FIRST TIME BAKING. EVER.

I started around 2:30pm thinking I will have more than enough time until my eye doctor’s appointment which is at 4pm.. NAHP. WRONG. I had to go to doctor’s in the middle of it and then had dinner so.. I got back to baking around 6pm? and finished around 9:30pm =__=!!!! I guess 45min was for people who know what “folding” and all the baking terms mean and have all the tools and ingredients ready.

I didn’t have any tools, I was scared, doubting myself b/c I really wanted to do this but I was crippled with fear that this is one of the things I say I will do but never get around in doing it, causing me to just feel absolutely horrible at myself.  Anyway, had to get handmixer, mixing bowl, cooling racks, baking trays, baking scale, etc-- things I had no idea that I needed. I thought I can only get the things on the recipe but nooooo I hadn’t had any basics. My husband and I also had to figure out how to melt chocolate, how to use hand mixer, how to use scale, ETC..

So I can’t believe I actually. ACTUALLY baked!!! Crazy of me and I’m amazed by it. It’s magic! Also, it’s hard to roll the cake than it seems... Hehe..

Also, rolling…….. I thought it was easy.. watching from #gbbo…

It does NOT work so well.

It is not easy. It cracked like CRAZY as you can see.. I wanted to throw everything away but nope. I just kept going.. so I can at least eat them in tacked piece and achieve something by sticking to the end! it was a challenge for me. i think i need fluffier texture because my edges were pretty crispy— which, cracked of course. i forgot to use piping bag so i drizzled with spoon! looks like a mummy.

Ha! but I am extremely proud of myself. It tasted GOOD and even my boss at work gave me A++ and that means a lot b/c I regard her taste level very high! i have videos i took but didn’t edit them together. perhaps in the future!

recipe: https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/prue-leith-chocolate-mini-rolls/