Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Sourdough Knäckebrot

 Ingredients:

  • 30g rolled oats
  • 40g pumpkin seeds
  • 50g sunflower seeds 
  • 30g sesame seeds
  • 40g ground linseed
  • 4g salt
  • 4g dried rosemary
  • 25g oliveoil
  • 150g sourdough
  • 120g water 
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. The dough should be easily spreadable (add extra water if too stiff).
Line a baking tray with baking paper and evenly spread the dough using  spatula (silicone works well). An even thickness will ensure the Knäckebrot bakes evenly without some parts burning or others remaining soft.

Bake in oven at 175°C for around 45 min, until crispy and slightly brown. Be careful to not overbake. 

Friday, September 27, 2019

Banana coconut cake

Ingredients:

300 gm butter at room temperature
275 gm runny honey
6 big eggs
300 gm ripe banana, mashed
175 gm wholemeal flour
175 gm desiccated coconut
1.5 teaspoon baking powder

Method:

  1. Cream the butter and honey till the mixture is fluffy and light.
  2. Break the eggs into the mixture and beat till eggs are mixed.
  3. Add the mashed bananas, and mix well.
  4. Add the flour, desiccated coconut and baking powder. Mix well.
  5. Pour into prepared baking tins, and bake at 150-175 degrees Centigrade in a pre-heated oven for an hour.


Saturday, April 21, 2018

Apple "Rose" Muffins



Ingredients:
(Yields ~8  muffins)
  • 3 apples 
  • 80g butter
  • 50g muscovado sugar (alternatively white or brown)
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 150g flour
  • a dash of milk
Dough:
1. Thoroughly blend soft butter with sugar in a bowl until creamy.
2. Add egg and vanilla and whisk together.
3. Add flour and mix well.
4. Add a dash of milk to achieve a consistency more fluid than Mürbeteig but firmer than pancakes batter.

Rose petals:
1. Cut apples in half and remove the core.
2. Slice the apples into ~2mm slices.
3. Spread out the slices onto a plate suitable for microwave usage. (Optional: Sprinkle some vanilla sugar onto the slices. This depends on how sour the apples are)
4. Pop the plate with apple slices into the microwave on high heat for 3-4 min. This will soften the apples so that they don't break when roling later.


  

Combining:
1. Fill the muffin cups half way with dough.
2. After the apples have cooled slightly, layer 11-15 slices in a line on a cutting board, so that the semi circles overlap each other half way.
3. Start rolling up the apples slices starting at the first one that had been layed down. This requires both hands and sometimes a bit of fiddling work.
4. Place the rolled up apple slices into the muffin cups containing dough, push down slightly and adjust the pattals to your liking.
5. Bake at 150°C for around 20-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Adjust temperature or time if the apple slices start getting too brown.