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Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2015 – 2016)


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@Kim Shook. I love the look of that cake, and I agree that using cocoa as a dusting powder rather than flour looks like sheer genius!  When I see cakes like that I think "maybe I should spring for one of those fancy bundt pans!" and then remember that I have a garden-variety bundt pan that's never used.  Bake on, please - and @Thanks for the Crepes, I eagerly await a report on your new panas well. :) 

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Baklava with pistachios, walnut, tahini paste, butter, honey, lemon peel, anise seeds, cinnamon, rose water. I much less syrup then common, as I find most baklava to be too sweet and sticky to my taste. Those have very nice toasted nutty flavor with floral spice aroma. The lemon, anise and rosewater works well together and compliment the nuts. They are also extra crispy thanks to the moderate amount of syrup.

 

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That baklava looks great. How did you use the tehina? And how much of it? (I'm assuming it was mixed in with the nuts, etc.) Is the flavor noticeable? Tehina is one of my all-time favorite foods, and I've always loved the combination of tehina and honey. Never would have thought of adding it to baklava, but now that you mention it ...

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18 hours ago, cakewalk said:

That baklava looks great. How did you use the tehina? And how much of it? (I'm assuming it was mixed in with the nuts, etc.) Is the flavor noticeable? Tehina is one of my all-time favorite foods, and I've always loved the combination of tehina and honey. Never would have thought of adding it to baklava, but now that you mention it ...

 

Tahini is a favorite of mine as well, I usally eat it in savory context, but I do enjoy it sweet as well. I really enjoy it on toast with carob "honey" (actually a syrup) or date "honey".

 

Iv'e indeed added it to the nut mixture (though Iv'e once seen an intriguing recipe that called for tahini between the phyllo sheets). I used 20g of tahini for every 100g of mixed nuts. It's flavor is subtle in the final outcome, having a mostly nutty flavor, it's supposed to enhance the nuts, rather then really add a new flavor. The advantage of tahini comes from being finely ground, so it's flavor is quick to release on the tongue. It also works as a binding agent and improves mouth feel thanks to being creamy, in contrast to the crunchy nuts.

 

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36 minutes ago, shain said:

Iv'e once seen an intriguing recipe that called for tahini between the phyllo sheets...

 

Ooooh. Very nice.

 

There was once a recipe on egullet (I still have it somewhere) for a cake that called for greasing the sides of the pan with tehina instead of butter. I haven't made it (or thought of it, actually) in ages, but I remember how nice it was.

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Been doing some eclair formula testing - this is a variation of Migoya's formula that uses cake flour. The first batch using his formula I screwed up and turned the oven on convection without even thinking - had more flattened ones - pretty soft - but nice texture for eating immediately.

 

This one has about 10% bread flour in with the cake flour, a bit more salt to strengthen the protein and a bit more milk powder again to up the protein a bit. Baked under the correct conditions (at least as correct as you can get with a home oven instead of a deck oven). Much less cracking but not quite as nice a texture. 

 

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3 minutes ago, curls said:

@Kerry Beal have you tried Pichet Ong's choux recipe? I remember that there were a few people on eGullet who really liked it.

 

Yes I have - didn't even think to dig that one out for the trials - tomorrow! But I'll need it by weight as it's in cups etc in my cookbook.

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Yes I have - didn't even think to dig that one out for the trials - tomorrow! But I'll need it by weight as it's in cups etc in my cookbook.

 

 

 

I'll PM it to you, it is by weight in his cookbook.

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Thanks to curls I have the Pichet Ong recipe by weight - so this is a single batch (125 grams of flour) part piped in eclair shape, a few rounds with craquelin on board and the remainder with the addition of a bit of dijon and some cheddar to make gougère. 

 

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Wonderfully tender choux.  

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I don't have Pichet's book but Michael Laiskonis discussed choux in a post on his old blog and, if I remember correctly, he attributed the recipe to him. I've never been disappointed with the results. This is the recipe Michael used, does it look pretty similar?

180g water
120g whole milk
120g unsalted butter
30g sweetened condensed milk
2g salt
150g all purpose flour
4 large eggs

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A bit different - here's the amounts I used -

 

  • water, 140g
  • whole milk, 110g
  • butter, cut into pieces, 113g
  • sweetened condensed milk, 2T (48g)
  • salt, 1/2t
  • AP flour, 125g
  • large eggs, 4 (more may be needed) - I used 225 grams of egg 
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A few simpler cakes from the past few weeks.

 

For Valentine's Day, celebrated in Ecuador as Day of Love and Friendship, a Death by Chocolate filled with Manjar de Leche, and a Coconut Chiffon filled with Bing Cherry Preserves.

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Just because, an Orange-Spice filled and covered with orange-amaretto bittersweet cream ganache

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A Tiramisu 3-layer cake

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And finally, les pieces-de-resistance: Raspberry Cream Cheesecake and Baileys-Moccaccino Cheesecake.

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Those are mocha buttercream filled semisweet bonbons.

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Chocolate crinkle cookies.

I was slightly short on powdered sugar for coating so I used a mixture of cocoa and powdered sugar for the coating as suggested by google- I was a bit unsure at first thinking it would hurt the classic contrasted pattern, but I actually really like how the finished cookies look. The outside being more chocolate-y and less cloyingly sweet was also a plus.

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Excv_ your cookies look fantastic!

 

My experiment with sous vide puddings goes on. There is an old recipe of pannacotta that is made with no gelatin. I really like the texture. I made the recipe tons of times in the past but never sousvide before

 

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