Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Accidental Salt-Free Pandesal

Tonight i reached a milestone in my baking life. I made pandesal from scratch. Without a bread machine. I would have pat myself on the back if remembered to put salt on it (facepalm!!!!).

Making the dough wasn't the hardest part. It's the waiting game that irks me. Total waiting time for the dough to rise? 2 hours!

And of course baking time requires another 30-40 minutes.

and a minute or two for it to cool

Voila! Serve it with a laughing cow. (I deserve it, I know)

Reposting the recipe from this site. It turned out great even without the salt hehehe.


Ingredients
  • 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
  • ¼ cup warm water
  • 1 cup lukewarm milk << i used low fat evaporated milk
  • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter at room temperature
  • ½ cup sugar << i used brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt  << please do not forget this!!
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 4 ½ cups all purpose flour or more as necessary << i used bread flour
  • Breadcrumbs << i used pulverised panko bread crumbs
Instructions
  1. Dissolve the yeast in ¼ cup warm water in a big bowl. Let stand for 10 minutes, and then stir well.
  2. In a bowl, combine milk, butter, eggs, sugar and salt.
  3. Add milk mixture and 2 cups flour into the yeast mixture. Beat with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until smooth. Gradually stir in remaining flour, adding more if necessary.
  4. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface. Knead dough, adding flour as necessary, until dough is smooth, elastic and no longer sticky (around 10 minutes).
  5. Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour or until double in size.
  6. Transfer dough to a lightly floured board. Divide dough into 24 pieces. Shape each piece into a ball, roll in breadcrumbs and place in a baking pan lined with wax paper.
  7. Cover with a cloth and let rise for at least one hour or until almost double in size.
  8. Bake in 225 degree F oven for 20 minutes and then increase the oven temperature to 325 degrees. Bake for another 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
  9. Serve and enjoy!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Afternoon delight

Currently baking Ms. Connie’s Strawberry Streusel cake…
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It’s still in the oven and I'm already looking forward to a delicious merienda.

Mood: excited!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Blog backlog

Hello there!

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog. I was thinking of work as an excuse (again!) but I'll just admit it. I've been LAZY this month. Did'nt even play badminton, exercise, read a book or even shop except when I heard about the CK sale. I figured it will be a first time for me and my only chance before this year ends. And so I went and burned a couple of hundred bucks. Tee hee!

Anyway here's a list of what I've been up to this month of November. I think this will be my longest post so far.

- Went to the Asian Food Expo in Singapore expo (where else!)

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All I can say is it was pure gluttony. We came out full, grossed out (some weird foods), and penny less. We came to the expo unprepared. We forgot to withdraw some money before going. We only found out that we only had $20 dollars when we were already inside!


- Put up our Christmas tree after all souls day. The light came in late but was right on time for my big day.

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- Made my first home-made puto with the help of my favorite food blogger’s recipe.

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It turned out good actually. I didn’t have beater so yeah, my arms hurt after beating the egg whites. She did gave a warning about it but I didn’t have a choice. I wanted to eat puto so badly that night so I had to make sacrifices.


- Went to Charles and Keith sale. Bought 6 bags, 2 pairs were of the same kind but in different colors and a shoe and a belt for Leng

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- I had a surprised birthday party at the office. I received a pair of shoes as a birthday present enclosed in a cute yellow shoebox which only cost 2 dollars according to my officemates. I’m now planning to buy more of them for my other lovely shoes (woot woot!).

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Officemates and friends, you are all so sweet. Again a big thank you!


- Celebrated my birthday with friends and officemates again on my actual birthday. We were supposed to be on a holiday in Thailand but our trip was cancelled (boo hoo!) due to… I don’t want to talk about it. So we resorted to inviting everybody in our team for a small dinner and for videoke session here at home. My birhtday handa were Beef Caldereta, Chop-Suey, Pansit Bihon, Lumpia, Embutido and Buko Pandan for dessert. We (Adette, Jong and Leng) started cooking around 12pm and was finished by 4pm. Guests started arriving around 7pm (filipino time, nyek!). I had a fun night. I enjoyed every bits of our laughing, singing, story-telling and eating session. Although I was very exhausted by the end of the day, I figured I will probably do this again next year. 

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Thanks to all those who came and to those who remembered my birthday! and to those who forgot hehe.


- And lastly, today I made my first ever doughnut coated with Sugar and Cinnamon.

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Can anyone remind me to buy a doughnut cutter next time?

***That’s all folks!