Stollen Cake Napoleon
Tuesday, 8 December, a holiday, as I mentioned in my last post, one of the Stollen was for Manu grandmother, the other two were swallowed by, namely:
Marcela (a) La Negra, Sandra (a) La Tana , Sergio (a) El Gordo and Cecilia (a) La Flaca.
people left only crumbs.
Before this, I made a pudding that he felt like a long time: Cake Napoleon.
Preparation fluffy little flour and lots of egg, which if kept in the refrigerator, the next day, has a firmer texture and more delicate flavor of chocolate.
course, has to last.
Ingredients:
self-rising flour, 80 grs .
starch (cornstarch), 40 grs.
baking powder, 1 / 4 tsp.
Balls 6 units.
Ground almonds, 80 grs.
Chocolate powder, 60 grams .
Sugar 200 grs.
Cognac 2 tablespoons.
Ground cinnamon, 1 / 2 tsp.
ground cloves, 1 / 4 teaspoon salt
, a sigh. Manteca
ointment, 100 grs. Chocolate
coverage 100 grs.
chopped almonds, 50 grams .
Preparation:
Beat egg yolks with 50 grams. of sugar until creamy dressing. Book.
Beat egg whites with remaining sugar (150 gr.) To obtain a compact merengue.
Add yolks preparing the meringue, mix with encircling movements to integrate.
Place in a bowl the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, chocolate powder, cinnamon and clove. Sift over the previous preparation and mixed with stirring motion. A comment, you can use chocolate bunny is, in my case I used a mixture of powdered sugar unsweetened cocoa. Not think of using unsweetened cocoa alone, after you can not eat.
Add the ground almonds and melted butter, mix to incorporate.
Grease a pudding mold of 30 cm. long and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Here I present the result of another visit to a bakery business, a mold for cassata:
Pour mixture without completing the mold and place in the oven at 180 ° C for 40 to 50 minutes. Continue cooking on a stick.
Remove and carefully place on a rack is a very light cake and may split.
While cooling, place the chocolate covered double boiler or in microwave on high for 30 seconds, remove and continue to microwave mixing, repeated 3 times have the chocolate ready.
coverage Bathe with the cake and sprinkle chopped almonds above.
Result:
As I mentioned at the beginning, if once cold, the chocolate coating, place it in the fridge the next day is another preparation, in my opinion, quite more interesting.
I leave greetings and thanks for the comments.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Xtra 10 Snowmobile Suspension
Following the bread, now it is the turn to a traditional German pastry, the Stollen .
prepared a correct version to your liking (the Marcela and mine), so you may find, if you look, different aggregates, but the basic recipe remains.
Come up with a recipe for 2 loaves, I clarify that I used 50% more, for 3 units.
Ingredients:
fresh yeast, 25grs.
Sugar 220 grs.
Warm milk, 360ml .
Balls 3 units.
vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon .
Cognac 1 well.
Manteca, 100grs.
purpose flour, 800grs.
Nuts, 150grs.
Almonds, 150grs.
Raisins, 200grs.
candied fruit, 100grs.
Fondant, amount needed.
Preparation: Shelling
with 20 grams yeast. sugar in a bowl, add warm milk and two tablespoons of flour, integrate and let rise in warm place (15 to 20 minutes). Meanwhile place raisins to soak in the brandy.
Place the egg yolks, remaining sugar (200grs.), vanilla essence, brandy and melted butter, mix to incorporate. Beat the egg whites.
Incorporate the previous preparation of yeast sponge, then add egg whites. Integrate.
Sift the flour little by little and add it to preparation by mixing with an open hand. The dough to pull away from the walls of the container, if necessary add more flour (the amount depends on the size of eggs).
Place dough on a countertop and knead until smooth preparation. Knead well.
Place on a floured board and bring to weigh in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Place dough on the countertop and spread with a rolling pin, to degas, add dried fruit (walnuts and almonds).
oflar Fold and a couple of times, to integrate the fruit. Place on a floured board and bring to weigh for 30 minutes.
Place the dough on the countertop and spread with a rolling pin to degas again. Add raisins.
oflar Fold and a couple of times to incorporate the raisins and pat (2 for the amounts of ingredients shown).
each portion of dough, brush with melted butter and fold it over itself.
Place in greased plate and bring to weigh for 1 hour.
Place in oven at 180 ° C for 30 to 40 minutes.
For the fondant, prepared a home, the following link can observe the sequence: Fondant.
Place it in a water bath and finely chopped candied fruits.
Decorate with fondant cakes and fruit.
Result:
bread turned me softer, less compact than Christmas Pan , sweetness is complemented with the fondant, so do not fail and If not available, sprinkle powdered sugar.
Great for Sunday lunch and breakfast on Monday, I do not go farther, Marcelita and the Tanita , particularly the latter, are responsible for liquidating the Stollen.
You go to this for Grandma Manu.
Greetings and thanks for the comments.
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