Love Baking

I try to do the pizza crust for dinner. Extract the recipe from Happy Home Baking.

Ingredients :

(make two 12′ pizza dough)

250g bread flour

1 teaspoon fast-acting dry yeast

1 teaspoon salt

150ml lukewarm water

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

Method :

1. Grease two 30cm (12in) round pizza trays. (or use baking tray, lined with parchment paper).
2. Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Mix in the yeast. Make a well in the centre and add the water and olive oil. Using your hands, gradually work the ingredients together to form a soft dough. If the dough is too dry add a few drops of water.
3. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 10 mins until the dough becomes smooth and elastic. Shape dough into a round ball and place in a lightly oiled mixing bowl. Cover with cling wrap and leave to rise for 1 hr or until double in size.
4. Turn out the risen dough onto a lightly floured work surface and knock it down to release the air. Give it a few gently kneading. Divide dough into 2 portions. Shape into two balls, cover loosely with cling wrap and let it rest for about 10mins.
5. Roll or press out each portion to a round, about 12″ in size. Place dough on prepared tray.
6. Spread pizza sauce over the dough to within 1 cm (0.5 inch) of the edge. Arrange a layer of grated cheese, followed by preferred toppings. Sprinkle the top all over with grated cheese.
7. Bake in a preheat oven at 200 degC for 15-20 mins or until the crust has turned golden and the cheese has melted. Serve warm.

This is my 3rd time trying out. It seems that my oven is not working as the heat from the bottom is lighted up. Therefore, only the top of the cookies look quite okay but the base it not really cooked yet. I still have to find out more of my oven. The booklet is too brief and nothing much about the usage of the oven. Next week I shall try to do the cookies again and maybe try to do chocolate cake. Not satisfied with my result for this time.

Bought the oven for about 3 weeks and never use it before. So I decide to make the simplest butter biscuits. I bought the biscuits flour (500g) and a butter (250g). I mix them together. Luckily I never used all the flour as I am not sure whether how it turns out. I set the oven at 175 degree for 20 mins. Guess what happen? All the biscuits become black. Never give up. Next week try again. Maybe I don’t know how to control the temperature and timing. Yet to understand my oven.

2 bar of chocolate (melt it)

1 box of cornflakes

This is simple. I like to do simple task. hehehe…….. I melt the chocolate in a bowl and boil it in the hotwater. It melt very fast. Add cornflakes into the melted chocolate and stir well. Place it in the small cup and put some colour chocolate rice on top. To look colourful.

Wahoo! My hubby buy a new oven for me. I wanted an oven to learn to do cakes and biscuits. He is going to get a breakmaker for me too! Wow!

Yesterday I tried this pancake for my sons. My younger son loves it very much that he can eat 2 piece for lunch and dinner. I bought these from Cold Storage. Sally recommended me to buy Bisquick. Not bad. I follow the instruction and make 10 piece of pancakes.

2 cup of Bisquick

1 cup of fresh milk

2 eggs

Use the non stick pan for pancake.

makes 12 muffins

• 4 fresh ripe dark red plums, chopped
• 225g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 100g sugar
• 100g unsalted melted butter
• 1 large egg
• 120ml buttermilk or plain milk
• 200g raisins or dried mixed fruit

Method

Grease muffin tins or line with muffin paper cases. Heat oven to 200 deg C.

Stft flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl and add the sugar.

In a separate bowl, beat egg milk and melted butter together. Make a well in the centre of dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture. Use a wooden spoon to combine the ingredients but do not overmix.

Stir in chopped plums and raisinsor dried fruit. Do not overmix.

Spoon into prepared muffin cups and bake for 20 to 25 mins. Test with skewer for doneness.

200g raisins or dried mixed fruit

Ingredient :

230g QBB Ghee

250g caster sugar

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

300g top flour, sifted

30g instant coffee

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

150g cornflakes, crushed

200g walnuts, halved

Method :

• Preheat oven to 180C
• Cream the sugar and QBB Ghee until light and fluffy
• Beat in the eggs and fold in the flour, instant coffee and bicarbonate of soda
• Fold in the crushed cornflakes and mix well
• Drop heaped teaspoons of mixture on to a baking tray lined with non stick baking paper
• Place a walnut on each cookie. Bake for about 15 mins
• Cool on a wire rack