Custard cake / leche flan chiffon cake

Custard cake or Leche flan chiffon cake (filipino style) by:S

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             husband's 1st attempt

One sunny afternoon i was browsing the internet and accidentally saw somewhere a custard cake or leche flan chiffon cake.It brought back childhood memories specially during my elementary days buying it in our school canteen or in a local bakery.I thought of baking it my own since bakery in our place is like 5mins. drive and i don't think i'll find custard cake in a swiss bakery nearby.

I didn't want to bake it alone coz it might not be succesful,so i asked my husband to do it for me coz i know he will make it perfect...and it was a succes! He made a very delicious custard cake i've ever tasted.

 

               husband's 2nd attempt

I gathered recipes online combined with my own recipe and husband simply did some tricks and surprisingly very yummy the first try and even yummier the second try.

Here's our easy steps and the ingredients:

- First preheat the oven to 180°C

and make the caramel.

-Caramel ingredients

300g Sugar (doesn't matter what color but we used white sugar)

80ml water

Simply mix it together in a pan until the sugar is caramelized,put it on your baking pan and set aside.

- Custard ingredients

250ml sweetened condensed milk

60g white sugar

6 eggs 

250ml fresh milk

1 tsp. of lemon zest

1 tsp.Vanilla  (we used fresh vanilla separeted from the stem but powder or liquid vanilla will do)

Mix all the ingredients for the custard in a bowl and using a strainer put the mixture on the baking pan with caramel.

- Cake ingredients

2X 60g white sugar (separately)

60ml fresh milk

3 eggs (3 egg whites and 3 yolks separately)

200g flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1) Mix the sugar (60g) and egg yolks in a bowl mix or beat until smooth,sift the flour and baking powder then put it alternately with milk ,mixing after each addition,just mix until the batter is smooth.

2) In another bowl ,beat the egg whites until foamy.Add the second 60g of sugar slowly while beating continously until the egg white gets stiff.

3) Mix the egg white mixture and egg yolks mixture together to create the cake batter ( mix together by folding technique until there's no white anymore,the reason why we have to beat the egg white first,is to create tiny air bubbles that will create the volume texture of the cake.

4) Put the cake batter over the custard and spread it slowly on your baking pan,the cake batter should float so pls.don't overworked the mixture.

5) Place the cake pan in a larger pan half-filled with water.Bake in your preheated oven for 50mins to 1hr. to know if the cake is good,just do the toothpick technique by simply inserting it at the center ,if it comes clean,the cake is finished.If not,bake a little longer,testing it time to time.

                          before

Important:Make sure all the sides are covered with the cake batter so that the custard will not boil over it while baking.

                            after

Refrigerate the cake overnight to get the even and perfect texture of the custard.The next day scrape the sides of the cake and simply flip it on a tray and voila you have your delicious custard cake.

   

 Perfect partner for coffee or tea.

             Even our kids loved it.

Btw,we spent only 13fr. for the ingredients which is very cheap.If i'll buy

a pc. of cake in any bakery here,it would costs me 3-5fr.For us it's cheaper to bake our own cake than to buy it elsewhere and in the first place,homamade cakes taste better ;)

Apple streusel Cake by:S

In german: Apfelstreuselkuchen 

My husband baked the cake last night ( i was so jealous coz he baked it like a boss, no effort at all!  ;D )

His recipe is so easy,he prepared everything just in 20min.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

4 big apples, diced

For the dough:

250 g flour

125 g margarine or butter

100 g sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 Egg

1 pck. Vanilla sugar

Margarine or butter for the form.

For the streusel:

200 g flour

100 g margarine or butter

100 g sugar

1 pck. Vanilla sugar

Cinnamon

Preparation:

Peel the apples, dice and saute briefly.

Mix the ingredients for the dough. Give the dough in a greased springform pan. Press it lightly. Give the stewed apples on it.

The ingredients for the streusel mix and briefly knead with your fingers until they have become to sprinkles then put it on the dough and the apples. Bake at 175 degrees about 70 minutes.

Super delicious! 

Perfect for my tea afternoon and perfect partner with green tea.

Swiss butter Zopf

Swiss butter Zopf

Zopf  is a swiss-german for "knot"

Swiss butter Zopf is a popular sunday bread in switzerland ,aside from cheese and chocolates swiss poeple love to eat bread for brunch.

This bread is a very unique because of it's appearance like a knotted hair braid.

I will show here a very easy recipe of Butter Zopf.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celsius.

Ingredients:

1 kg. white flour

1 tsp. salt

20 gr.yeast

1 tsp.sugar

125 gr.butter (let it sit on a room temp. To make it soft)

7dl  milk

1 egg yolk


Preparation:

*Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. ( better sift first the flour to avoid some hard parts) then put the wet ingredients. ( egg,yeast,milk & butter)

*Knead to a soft dough ,we do it usually by hand so i can't give exactly how many minutes you have to roll it but depends how good you knead the dough until it's good to set aside  (cover the bowl with a cloth) and let it rise until it doubled the size.

*cut the dough to two parts and weave it like a knot and create a long roll size each.

-put the two long dough on cross position

-hold the two ends of the first dough and cross it over then take the two ends of the second dough and same procedure cross it ove

-just repeat until you reach the end of each dough and just simply fold the ends to have a nice zopf form.

Put the finished zopf dough in a tray with backing paper and cover again for about 30mins. After that brush the egg yolks on it to have that brownish shiny look.

Bake for about 45mins. @ 200 degrees celsius.

Just a tip on how to know if your Zopf is perfectly baked,try to knocked on each side of the Zopf and if you hear that string sound like knocking on your door and it's has a hard appearance ,it's ready to eat!

You can eat it with butter and marmalade or with cold cuts. (Ham,pepperoni etc.)

Home made french Macarons

                                              Homemade french Macarons

It was actually my first time to do this yummy french macarons for Christmas eve,after seeing my friends baking homemade macarons, i finally decided to give it a try and it was a succes! so easy as i expected, it wasn't the best good looking homemade macarons but it tasted really good ;)

Ingredients.

*125 g almond meal or ground almonds
*200g cups powdered sugar
*3 large egg whites
(they said eggs aged up to 3 days are better but i used just what i got from the grocery,i don't know even know how old they were)
*30g granulated sugar
 *some are using 1 teaspoon vanilla extract but i think it's optional.
*food coloring 

Materials needed:

*Electric handmixer/beater (i used Philips and it worked perfectly fine)
*sifter
*mixing bowls
*oven tray with baking paper
*pastry bag(round tip)
*kitchen scale
*spatula
*sifter

 
 -First measure all the ingredients properly
-sift ground almonds and powdered sugar
-then mix them together in a bowl with the granulated sugar.(some are using food processor but if you don't have just use a normal mixing bowl like what i did ;)
- now put the egg whites on the mixing bowl and beat it on medium-high speed until egg whites become stiff.
while doing it put the granulated sugarthen put the color that you want (i used brown color)
-mix the egg whites to make the color even  by using the spatula.
-mix/fold the almond sugar mixture  to the egg whites 
-when it become shiny and creamy pipe out the  macarons on the tray with baking paper .

*some poeple are using silicone macaron mat but since you are doing this the first time macaron template is ok for now .What i did ,i draw circles on the baking paper like on the picture below (it's a size of a 5-dollar coin)

-once it's all piped out on ,bang the trys to let the air out.
-to make it perfectly round use the spatula to form and to remove that tip on top of the macarons.
-set the macarons aside for 20mins. while you preheat the oven to 300°f (150°C)
-then bake your Macarons for 14mins.
-Let the shells coolbefore removing them from the baking paper.
-then put your preferred filling,i used Nutella since it was my first time ,i'll try to make my own next time.

                                              That's it! Goodluck and happy baking :)