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Friday, 24 March 2017

Baking disaster: Classic streusel blueberry muffins

I completely messed up the streusel and the oven temperature:  adding too much flour to the streusel; not massaging the streusel with two hands; and baking the muffins at 280'C instead of 190'C for 35 minutes.

(I baked the muffins for 10 minutes before smelling the burnt streusel from the oven!  The kitchen was covered with smoke!!!)

The result was muffins covered with burnt streusel.  The saving grace out of this trial was the texture of the muffins.  They were soft and fluffy due to the sieving process and milk.  Another one was the tulip wraps, that were correctly home made by me!

I will follow the instruction for the muffins in the future.  Enjoy the photos below.

Photo 1:  Classic streusel blueberry muffins

Photo 2:  blueberries inside the muffins

Photo 3:  half eaten by me!



Streusel Topping Ingredients:
⅓ cup (50 g) all-purpose flour
¼ cup (50 g) packed light brown sugar

¼ tsp (0.75 g) baking powder
¼ tsp (0.75 g) ground cinnamon
3 Tbsp (45 g) cool unsalted butter, cut into pieces

Muffins Ingredients:
½ cup (115 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
1 tsp (5 mL) finely grated lemon zest
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 ½ cups (375 g) all-purpose flour
2 tsp (6 g) baking powder
¼ tsp (1.5 g) salt
¼ tsp (0.75 g) ground nutmeg
½ cup (125 mL) 1% or 2% milk
2 cups (250 g) fresh blueberries

Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Baking stuff Part 1: How to make fondant

I came across online videos on how to make your own fondant instead of paying up to £8.50 for a tub from my local supermarket.

The ingredients needed for making fondant are given below:

Icing sugar or powdered sugar
Glycerine
Gelatine
Liquid glucose (corn syrup or Lyle & Son's golden syrup)
Milk
Butter
Vanilla extract
Water - from the kitchen tap
Marshmallows (some recipes use marshmallows)

I found these ingredients at the local Waitrose Upminster branch in Essex, UK.

Homemade fondant

Thursday, 23 February 2017

White Rabbit Creamy Candy

One of my favourite sweets.  My friend's son loves it very much.

My friend grew up eating the sweets in South Africa.  I had seen it in Malaysia but never tried it until I came here.

It's chewy and sweet. It tastes of milk as it is a milk candy.  It can be found in the Chinese grocery shops in Leicester Square.  Loon Fung in Stratford, East London, also sells it.

Amazon sells it too.