tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4277008766807111152024-02-18T21:10:06.256-08:00Baking StudentsStudents in university baking recipes to have fun and hold fundraisers to raise money for a charity fighting against poverty. Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-92209762784048426242020-04-03T07:56:00.002-07:002020-04-03T07:56:38.161-07:00Lemon Cream and Ginger Cake <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>Sooooo, I was deciding whether I could still use this blog (since I am not a student anymore, and I created it with all my student flatmates and friends, but I decided I am always a student in life and I am usually baking with friends anyways ;)) As you probably know, this blog was created as a challenge to myself (and flatmates) to bake all the recipes in a cookbook by Martha Collison called <a href="http://www.bakingmartha.co.uk/books" target="_blank">Twist</a> in under a year. We did succeed in making most of the recipes (besides many of the pastry recipes because they were a bit too fancy for our student times). Now that I am graduated, and haven't got a full time job (yet), I have heaps of time to bake recipes I didn't get to bake while at university. </i></div>
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<i>The second reason I decided to start this blog was to raise awareness and fundraise for a charity called Tearfund which tackle poverty around the world. During this time Tearfund is out in vulnerable countries helping people understand how to <a href="https://www.tearfund.org/2020/03/tearfunds_response_to_coronavirus/" target="_blank">protect themselves against the coronavirus disease</a> that is wide-spreading. They are also helping vulnerable people in more than 50 countries during this Lent Season to <a href="https://www.tearfund.org/latest/lent_appeal/" target="_blank">gain access to essential items and means of survival</a>. However, they have been forced to stop holding public events, which is vital to their fundraising efforts for the charity to keep tackling poverty. All I ask is for you to consider giving a donation to hep them to keep doing their amazing work, and in return I will show you how to bake some amazing cakes :D </i></div>
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Now to my recent bake!! I have recently been making a whole lot of ginger cakes. The reasons being: 1. I had to buy a large jar of stem ginger, which lasts only few weeks in the fridge, and one cake only needs one stem ginger, and 2. Graeme (my amazing husband) discovered that he actually loves ginger cake. Here is a photo of the ginger cake I made for his birthday last month: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the heart-shaped cake to cool down before icing it (I forgot to take a picture of the iced cake) ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had an online party for Graeme, and then played some games with people who stayed on for longer :D </td></tr>
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Needless to say, I have made the basic ginger cake recipe a few times before (<a href="https://bakingstudents.blogspot.com/2017/06/week-31-ginger-and-rhubarb-cake.html" target="_blank">Ginger and Rhubarb Cake</a> being the first time I made it where I accidentally made 4 times the recipe) , but what I hadn't made was a Lemon and Ginger cake before. This recipe compromises of three different components: lemon curd, two ginger cakes, and the filling. So I started off by making the lemon curd the night before I was going to make the cake. </div>
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The lemon curd was actually quite simple. I had made it once or twice before, but a few years ago, and so I thought it was much more complicated than it was ;) I halved the recipe, because I wasn't going to use it for anything else but the cake, so I only needed two unwaxed lemons. So in the small saucepan I added the juice and zest of the two lemons, 50g unsalted butter, 75g caster sugar and 1 egg plus one yolk. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I then whisked on low until the butter was melted:</span></div>
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You then turn up the heat to medium and whisk until it thickens and can coat the back of a spoon (around 5-6 minutes). </div>
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Graeme and I had bought these cute little jars from IKEA, so I washed and thoroughly dried one on low in the oven, and poured in my lemon curd. I then put it in the fridge and left it until I needed it the next day. </div>
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It was the next day, and so I had to now make the two ginger cakes and the filling. I had bought a packet of 8 18 inch disposable cake tins a few years ago at Wilko when I made a rainbow cake, so I decided to use two of those for the ginger cake. I greased them, and turned the oven on to 140 Celsius fan. </div>
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For the cake batter, like usual cake recipes, you first make the liquids to then add to the flour. In a medium saucepan I added 200g salted butter, 250g dark Muscovado sugar, and either 200g golden syrup or, like me, the rest of the golden syrup I had and the rest honey till it reached 200g. I then stirred until the butter was melted and I couldn't see any lumps of sugar. </div>
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After that, I added 200g milk to cool the liquid down. I then usually leave it a bit to make sure it is cooling down, cause once I put the egg in too quickly and it scrambled!! Finely cut 2 stem gingers from your jar of stem gingers. Leave that on the side, add two eggs to the sugar mixture and whisk them in. Stir in the finely cut stem ginger.</div>
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Now the flour. In a medium sized bowl add 250g plain flour, and then 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger and cinnamon. Mix it a bit, and then add the sugar mixture. Whisk it a wee bit till it is just combined, then pour into your two cake tins. I made a mistake here!! Only add it till 3/4 way up the cake tin, otherwise it will overflow!! </div>
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Then bake for 40 - 50 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.</div>
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For this reason, my cakes took around 30 minutes longer to bake, as the skin was able to be created until it could all stay still and had overflowed ;) When it came out I had some serious crisis management to do. haha.</div>
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I decided to cut around the edges of the cakes, so that they were clean on the edges and could easily come out. I then put them on a wire rack to cool while I took out all the trays in the oven for Graeme to clean later on!</div>
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Next, I started making the filling. Get a large bowl, and to it add 100g cream cheese, 150ml double cream, 2 tablespoons icing sugar and 4 tablespoons of the syrup from the stem ginger jar. Whisk them all together until you get a nice cream that stays together. </div>
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Now add it all together :D If the cake is now cool (I left it for an hour), place the bottom layer on a cake plate. Then smooth 3/4 of the filling onto the bottom layer. Add the lemon curd (the recipe says 8 tablespoons, but that would have been too much for me). Carefully place the second cake on the top, and smooth the last 1/4 of the filling on top. Walaa!!</div>
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Graeme and I both loved the combination for the tang from the lemon and the sweet from ginger. It is something I would make again, but probably not all the time ;) For special occasions :D </div>
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I hope you all enjoyed this blog post!! Let me know what you liked and disliked about how I wrote out the recipe, and I will adhere my future posts to your preferences. </div>
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<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-20485779062277791032019-11-15T10:48:00.001-08:002019-11-15T10:48:05.353-08:00Raspberry and Rose Marshmallows Back again!! Not as a student anymore, but as a married women who is currently jobless. What do I do (other than searching for jobs)? Bake, bake and embroider!!<br />
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One of the recipes from the famous baking book that I always wanted to make, but didn't because it seemed too complicated, was to make marshmallows!! So here it goes!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creating the raspberry liquid to mix with the gelatine as a base for the marshmallows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Double checking the recipe to make sure I have everything right ;)</td></tr>
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I actually made this recipe twice, after telling Graeme that I was definitely not making it again (you will understand why as your read the whole post). Anyways, I had heaps to eat, and so I took the rest of the marshmallows to a girls connect group to share ... and they all loved it :D</div>
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Especially one particular girl who was organising a party for 50 people... And so she asked me to make it a second time for her party :o </div>
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Yippee!! ;) </div>
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Because I made the recipe twice, I tried using two different types of gelatine - leaves of gelatine, and powdered gelatine. While I was thinking that the original gelatine leaves would work better, it was actually easier to use powder!! It made the marshmallows less cloudy, and you actually felt the taste of the marshmallows, whereas the leaves made you feel like you were eating a cloud and the taste just went - poof. If that makes any sense ;) haha. </div>
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Also, if you make marshmallows, or anything with rose essence, remember to use less than they say!! I did that the second time and it tasted much nicer and I could taste the raspberry. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soaking the gelatine leaves before putting them to slowly melt with the raspberry liquid on the hob.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring out the sugar and golden syrup for the majority of the marshmallow. Trust me, you do not want to know how much sugary stuff is in those amazing pillows of goodness!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heating up the sugar while the gelatine leaves were melting in the raspberry liquid. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting ... for a very long time ... till the sugar got to 130 degrees on the sugar thermometer. It almost took half an hour for it to heat up!!! And then I released that the hob was on 3 instead of 5 or 6, which obviously meant that it wouldn't get hot enough. haha... My bad ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally it was hot enough!! Now to pour with the raspberry liquid to wish, whisk, whisk. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming together. This mixture was soo super sticky - hence why I didn't want to particularly make the recipe again. But, with the gelatine powder it was actually less sticky for some reason.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After much difficulty I managed to lay it out on a tray (with oiled cling film so that it wouldn't stick to that).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So sticky!!!</td></tr>
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Now we wait. The first time we watched some of the Bake Off finale while we waited, the second time I was late and gave it the bare-minimum time to wait. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On top of the marshmallows we were told to sprinkle a mixture of icing sugar and cornflour.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at all the marshmallows!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying the marshmallow in a hot chocolate :D It was amazing!! Although very sweet ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Things were getting very tense on the Bake Off finale!!! I was glad to have the hot chocolate to calm my nerves :o We were so happy when Alice's parents arrived in London!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toasting the marshmallows on our new wood burning stove during one of the long ad breaks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was actually much nicer than on its own, and really brought out the taste. </td></tr>
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So there you go, another recipe from Martha Collison's book Twist that we never got around to doing as students.<br />
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<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-15816775916881831512017-11-26T05:13:00.004-08:002017-11-26T05:17:30.696-08:00Christmas markets and Palmier Biscuits <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>Hello everyone!! As we, at the Baking Students, are starting to get ready for the Christmas month, we went to the Christmas markets and went iceskating to get into the festive cheer. </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iulia and I iceskating!!!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting together at the Christmas markets. Here are the Baking Students for this academic year :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i>A while ago I had purchased the ingredients to make Palmier biscuits, and I finally had some free time, so I decided to go ahead and make them (even though we are going through two cakes at the moment). </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparing the table for making rough puff pastry on a lovely sunny, cold day. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am able to start baking again!!! YES :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rolling the dough out to start folding in the butter </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving it around </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really enjoy making pastry ;) </td></tr>
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I then had to put the pastry into the fridge and fold the pastry in rotations. After the pastry looked like the butter was mixed in well enough, I rolled it out on the parchment paper. The recipe then said to roll out the marzipan and place it on top.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the cinnamon sugar to sprinkle over the pastry and marzipan</td></tr>
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Quoting Sixian and Iulia: "the pastry is too sweet" ;) But they are both biased, not liking things too sweet. haha. It reminded me a lot of some pastries I have back in Finland. </div>
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As the weather is getting colder, the festive cheer is getting louder and we are all starting to wonder what we will make for our Christmas Secret Santa evening. Hmm, I am think Christmas pudding with custard. Let's see what I actually have time for ;) </div>
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From all the Baking Students I hope you are enjoying this season of cheer!!</div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-66116822463289370032017-11-01T02:19:00.004-07:002017-11-01T02:19:33.643-07:00Sophie and Sixian's birthday muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>The birthday chocolate forest muffins that turned out to be like little gnome hats sandwiched with raspberry jam. What fun we had planning Sophie and Sixian's party <3 </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer and I making the cupcakes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The birthday girls with their birthday cupcakes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Sophie's presents was eating ganache. I personally think it was her favourite ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the birthday guests</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We needed to take another with a slight rearrangement ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iulia and I then went for a walk in the rain and mud because we were too hot in the kitchen where the oven is always on ;)</td></tr>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-72796044099100256762017-09-11T01:06:00.003-07:002017-09-11T01:08:49.749-07:00Peach Bellini Macaroons <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>This was a long way in the planning!! I have been at home in Helsinki, Finland, and my brother and I had planned for AGES to make macaroons together. I think it started when we used to, Harri still does, watch every single episode of Masterchef Australia, loving watching the stress of all the contestants having difficulty piping the macaroons and then all of them eventually crashing down from a perfect Croque En Bouche. Oh the joys of Masterchef Australia ;)</i></div>
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Before I had left Edinburgh I had taken a photo of the macaroon recipe and the Peach Bellini recipe, since the cookbook was way too heavy for me to take with me on the plane. I had warned Harri that this would be the time when we would make them, finally. I was so excited!!<br />
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The day came, more like the next morning, after we had had difficulty finding almond meal ;)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Separating the egg whites from the yolk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing the almond meal (that we finally found) with the icing sugar </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made the templates for the size of the macaroons the night before </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our lovely kitchen in Helsinki <3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harri measuring the castor sugar for the Italian meringue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing half the egg whites into the almond meal. There was not a misunderstanding with the measurements and we did not do anything without measuring ;) No ... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the Italian Meringue </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing the other half of the egg whites</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We then stirred in the yellow food colouring. I wanted to put in a lot this time since the colour did not work out that well last time ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piping the macaroons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our piping bag. We had a slight problem with the tip being too small</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh dear, the difficulties of baking :o </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">So ... we decided to make our own piping bags from baking paper. It is really quite simple actually!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished piping the final batch!! Now to let it develop a skin :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The used baking paper piping bags</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">While the macaroons went in the oven, one tray at a time, I started making the peach puree</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cooked macaroons. Do they look yellow, or is just the golden colour from baking? ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We then also made buttercream, with butter, icing sugar and Prosecco, and piped it in a circle around the inside of the macaroon. We then put in the centre the peach puree</td></tr>
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I am now heading back to Edinburgh to meet the Baking Students again :D </div>
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Till next bake,</div>
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Laura from The Baking Students xx</div>
Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-83645147864407936102017-09-09T02:03:00.000-07:002017-09-09T02:03:23.041-07:00Gooseberry pie <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>It has been a while since I made anything from the recipe book due to my travels and busy month of August in Edinburgh. I arrived in Finland at my grandparent's place and decided that I would make use of the ripe gooseberries. And then I texted Jennifer, who is in Edinburgh, to text me the recipe for the short-crust pastry in Martha's recipe book. So I did bit of a Pamela, combining and substituting two recipes for the gooseberry mixture and for the pastry to create gooseberry pie;)</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combining the flour and almond meal for the pastry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the cubes of cold butter. Next I had a real arm workout crumbing it together with my fingers ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After placing the pastry in the fridge I went out to go and pick the gooseberries from the garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picking the largest and darkest gooseberries and dropping them into the bowl <3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know if you can really see from this photo, but there were lots of big, prickly thorns. So I pricked my hand quite a lot ;) It was worth it though! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After washing all the gooseberries we then had to cut the the top and bottom off. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My awesome technique for heading and tailing the berries captured on tape ;) We unfortunately couldn't get the video here , but you can get the gist of it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first attempt at blind baking! For those who don't know what it is: Blind baking is pre-baking the base of the pie so that it doesn't get soggy when you add liquid as the filling. To do this you line the pie dish with the pastry, line the pastry with baking paper, and then line that with something heavy to weigh it down. I used rice to weigh it down. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then cut up the rest of the pastry into strips so that I can add a latticed lid to the pie when I filled it with the berries</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After pre-baking I realised that the paper was burning ;) haha</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extra pre-baking without the lining of the rice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pre-baked pie base ready for the gooseberry filling and latticed lid</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then filled it up with the berries and sprinkled it with cinnamon sugar. I added more sugar than I had done the previous harvest when I had made it because it was super duper tart. Hopefully that amount of sugar was enough. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then carefully placed the pastry in a lattice pattern on the top, and added a holly arrangement. Although it ended up looking angel wings ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then baked it for 35 minutes in the oven on 170 degrees. When it came out it was making a satisfying sizzling noise :D </td></tr>
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I tried the pie, and it was still tart ;) I mean, not as much as last year when I made it, but it needed some cream or ice cream to make it not so bitter. haha. Oh dear, never mind. The pastry tasted amazing!! </div>
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<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-55183055696496767852017-08-22T07:17:00.000-07:002017-08-22T07:17:07.626-07:00Week 31: Rhubarb Crumble Choux Buns <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>I had been planning this for a while. I decided straight away that I wanted to do this one in Finland with my grandmother, because she grows rhubarb and is always looking for new ways of using rhubarb. And this is definitely a new way :D Even though it didn't work out exactly as planned ;)</i></div>
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So I started by making the crumble to put onto of the choux pastry when it goes in the oven:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Rubbing the crumble together :D<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">I then rolled it out in between cling film to get a thin slab that I can easily cut out from later</td></tr>
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While the crumble was freezing in the freezer I started on the pastry:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bringing the butter, sugar and water to a roiling boil</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After stirring rapidly it came together into a ball, and then I poured it into a mixing bowl to allow it to cool</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then added 3 eggs to make it smooth</td></tr>
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Before I go any further, I should let you know that we had no idea really how to pipe out the choux pastry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piping out the pastry in a way we think will work. Surprisingly we then discovered, a third of our way through piping, that it was not the right way to do ;) You are meant to pipe in one small blob, not as wide as ours!! Never mind, we were thinking something would come out of the oven that will be yummy :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cutting out the crumble, which we would then place over the choir pastry before the oven. And this was the only cookie cutter that we had which was closest to the same size as the piped pastry and was not a weird animal shape ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the crumble on top of the pastry. As you can see the pastry did not cut exactly as the shape cutter wanted ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our magnificent choux pastry ready for the oven</td></tr>
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<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-10017915420818916782017-07-06T12:24:00.000-07:002017-07-06T12:27:33.738-07:00Sometime in summer: Sophie gets bored <br />
Hello all, its Sophie again <br />
Despite enjoying my summer of working so far, and coming home falling asleep before tucking into the latest Netflix hit, I'm starting to get bored and miss cake. Confession time: I'm the only baking student who can't bake at all, I just eat and take photos. So I had to think of something fail-proof so that I didn't have to explain to my flatmates why the house was on fire when they came back. So Rocky Road it was!! This isn't from our cookbook, so I'll leave the link for it below. <br />
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So I bought over-priced ingredients from the co-op because I'm too lazy to go to a shop that's not in walking distance of my work. Before I ended up in another shop anyway, because I didn't have a tray. When I came home, though, I discovered that we already had some of that stuff ... oops. <br />
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So I borrowed some scales from the flatmates, they were out any way. Measured out the biscuits before smashing them with a spoon (I don't know why a spoon). I put them in one freezer bag, soon realising that I'd smashed a hole in the bag with the spoon so I wrapped it in a couple of extra bags which worked. <br />
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Next I weighed out the butter, I didn't weigh the chocolate because I only bought enough to make the rocky road. Otherwise I'd have eaten the rest. Next a couple (ok 3 or 4) spoonful's of golden syrup and all in a pan to get melted.<br />
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Once it's all melted I added the biscuits and mixed them until coated with the chocolate. Next I embraced my inner Pamela and threw random amounts of marshmallows and raisins in until it looked right. All mixed to perfection. <br />
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I then emptied all the ingredients into the tray, which had been lined with greaseproof paper that I found in a drawer, spread evenly and put into the fridge to set for 2 hours while I fell asleep on the couch. After being woken up by the sound of my flatmate's bike, I discovered that the rocky road was perfectly set. Phew, baking takes it out of me. <br />
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Post fridge photos don't exist, because I forgot to take pictures before I ate it ... oops <br />
Recipe- https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12412/rocky-road Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11547639834644581549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-74239057166931858712017-06-21T05:52:00.001-07:002020-04-03T06:11:48.348-07:00Week 30: Ginger and Rhubarb Cake <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>I have been looking forward to this cake for a while!! It is the cake that is on the cover of Martha's cookbook, and along with the cake there are Candied Rhubarb twirls. I decided to leave this cake till Summer, because my grandmother always has heaps of rhubarb growing in her garden. She says that she does nothing to them and they just pop up every year, but I secretly think that she must put some special compost or something over the soil for it to always be so well crowded with rhubarb ;) haha</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The awesome party of rhubarb and sugar syrup going on in the kitchen ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boiled rhubarb ready to be placed on the cake before going in the oven</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dipping the rhubarb strips into the sugar syrup for the oven to dehydrate them ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laying the rhubarb out on the oven tray in an orderly manner ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We then baked them on a low temperature for an hour, after which we should be able to twist them and then they would harden like the ones in the picture on the cook book. Well, hopefully ;)</td></tr>
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Just so you guys know, even baking students, who are becoming experts, make mistakes ;) haha.<br />
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So, I am not used to using decilitres, which is the Finnish unit of measurement. So I accidentally ended up making 4 * the amount in the cook book ;) Please don't laugh, it was very stressful!! ;)<br />
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So after a tad bit of unknowing what to do, we decided to divide the batter up and try to recreate it into one cake. Then we would leave the rest of the batter to bake into more cakes the next day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cake 1# out of the oven ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have to say, it tasted very puddingish :) The rhubarb really cut through the sugariness: perfect combo!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately the rhubarb twists did not work out too well :( They tasted burnt, so we had to throw them out :( I will try making them again sometime</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cake 2# looked much lighter and the rhubarb did not sink to the bottom. I think it must be thanks to the extra flour that I added :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Success!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even though we went through some tough times trying to get the cake to work, it came out amazing in the end!! I am so thankful to my grandmother and mother for putting up with my unknowingness ;)</td></tr>
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This cake turned out amazing!! It is one to add to any home that has access to rhubarb!! :D</div>
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Below is an excerpt from a page called "<a href="http://www.tearfund.org/en/2017/06/refugee_week/" target="_blank">More than a refuge</a>", which discuss lives that have been affected by the labelling of a <b>refugee</b>. A guy named Ghasen was interviewed in Jordan, Iraq, and he was among those who was labelled a <b>refugee</b>. He ended up finding joy in the suffering when he found that <i>Tearfund</i> ran an exercise class for refugee men: </div>
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<span style="color: #181818; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>āThese classes have given all of the participants self confidence and to have hope in life,ā Ghassan tells us. āThere are other organisations that support us with food. It is important, but for me food is not more important than my soul. This helps me to be more at peace.ā</i></span></span></div>
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If this brings so much joy to refugees, imagine what joy we have the power to place in other people's lives through the simply acts that we can all do together. For example, just baking for or with a friend, or doing exercises with your mum and friend (Hey Pamela!!). The list is, really, endless. These simple acts have the ability to turn suffering into joy. And if that is all it takes, why would we not be bounding to do all that we can to make a difference in other people's lives? </div>
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We, at The Baking Students, are hoping that this blog will be a vessel to bring even just a little joy into people's lives. Even just by showing people how joyful baking can be through our laughing banter ;)</div>
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Till the next bake,</div>
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Laura from The Baking Students xx</div>
<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-73460727308326616502017-06-21T05:43:00.000-07:002017-06-21T05:43:02.856-07:00Week 30: Chocolate and Coconut Brownies <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;"><i>I just arrived back home in Helsinki, Finland after a year of Student Baking at university. I was tired from the late nights partying (which meant: staying up late baking, drinking tea and chatting) and weary (from all that child minding, haha). The first day at home I spent relaxing by washing clothes and planning bakes. The next day I started baking again ... because I can. I felt the urge to bake and get moving, and really ... baking gives me joy. Just the thought that I can bring joy to others through food is all it takes to get me moving and making some decadent bakes!!</i></span></div>
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So, to decide what to make I looked to what my family likes to eat. My dad, for instance likes coconut and condensed milk, and my mum and Harri like chocolate. At this point when I arrived back Harri was still in the army, but was finishing on Thursday, and the day was Wednesday. We would be driving to pick Harri and his friend up from the army the next day, so we did need some sustenance for the car journey. </div>
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The bake was decided!! It was to be: Chocolate and Coconut Brownies!! :D</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the coconut filling and putting it in the fridge to chill out with the tomato sauce and lettuce for an hour ;)</td></tr>
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I was just about to start making the batter for the brownies and I realised that we completely forgot to buy the main ingredient: chocolate!! </div>
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So we went for a quick walk to the local grocers. On the way we saw some amazing pink Rhododendrons, so we had to take a selfie :) </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring and cutting up the chocolate back at our kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving the chocolate mixture to quickly cool down to room temperate by leaving it in front of the window</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking the coconut out of the fridge ready to place as the filling in the middle of the brownie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pouring half of the chocolate batter into the tin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And having fun with it ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flipping the coconut layer onto the first layer of brownie batter. My photographer had to help me plop it on, so that is why there are no pictures of the ordeal ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting on the other half of the brownie batter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My photographer eating the chocolate batter ;) That is why she couldn't take more pictures ... all makes sense now ;)</td></tr>
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This was so much fun to make :D I know it seems like a lot of work, but really if you plan it out well, and have all the ingredients at your disposal, you could have this done in no time!! </div>
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Till next bake,</div>
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Laura from "The Baking Students at Summer break" ;) xx</div>
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<i>Have you ever seen the donut chefs, if that is what they are called, making the donuts behind the glass walls at cafes? The way that they seemingly effortlessly knead the dough, plonk it down the heated elevators, and out comes the golden bun of a donut. Sizzle, sizzle. It is a childhood bliss to me, I can just about smell it from the other side of my laptop screen. Can you? </i></div>
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So it was during the last couple of weeks that we had at our flat at university, when Pamela, Caroline and Jennifer had left, that Sophie, Sixian and I set out to make the most amazing home made donuts ever!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving the donut dough to rise while we went to the shops to get 2 litres of sunflower oil to fry the donuts in ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Folding the donut dough to take out all the bubbles. It was very soothing ;)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sophie having fun playing with the end piece of dough ;)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cutting the donuts out. You would never guess what equipment we used!! ... We used a "Tea makes everything better" mug for the outer circle, and (after trying a spoon) we used a toothpaste lid for the inner circle. It was Sophie's brilliant creativity that helped us get the right-shape donut ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We accidentally almost burnt the kitchen down by spilling oil on a hot plate!! :o Luckily Sophie has the health and safety certificate and knew what to do!! haha :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweating the donuts in the oil. It was a simply amazing aroma filling our noses of just-baked donuts!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie trying one of the little pieces of dough that came off the whole donuts in the oil ;) So cute :D</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sophie having fun with her donut ;)</span><br />
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<br />Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-66963088164178593452017-06-14T10:17:00.001-07:002017-06-14T10:17:13.861-07:00Week 21: Route 66 Rocky Road<i>We wanted to do something to celebrate Sophie's first week of training for her new job as breakfast assistant, in addition to her role as eater of cake, taker of photographs and moral support.</i><br />
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So we decided to make a mixture of many favourite sweet things all in one bake: Rocky Road!! </div>
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So ~ drum roll please ~ the Tea for Tearfund fundraiser raised Ā£150 with Ā£37.50 in Gift Aid!!!!!! We are super duper thankful to all those people who gave to help people who are less fortunate than them to be given the basic human need to eat and live.</div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-61371684028475026112017-05-02T03:03:00.001-07:002017-05-02T03:03:31.413-07:00Tea for Tearfund updates <i>This FRIDAY The Baking Students will be having their second fundraiser!!! I am so excited to bake for it, and to see how much money will be raised for children and families living in poverty. </i><br />
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Just 5 pounds will help to train 6 families to farm and feed themselves throughout their life in drought climates. 5 pounds is not a lot at all, the equivalent of a cake and tea, but it saves 6 whole families from dying in poverty!! <a href="http://www.tearfund.org/en-sc/hungersteals/sylvia/" target="_blank">Click</a> for more information. </div>
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If you can't make it along this Friday, please <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/The-Baking-Students" target="_blank">donate</a> 5 pounds to train 6 families to provide for themselves, or/and then come along to our next fundraiser in September :D </div>
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We then came back to our flats, and I made the pretzel stick's dough. I was then going to meet Morven to do exercising. That day we were going to be doing a '1000 squat challenge', so I was not sure whether I was sad about doing so many squats, or excited about doing it with Morven ;)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The flour, yeast and salt having a party in the mixing bowl. Ready for the water to turn up that dancing!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our view while exercising <3 The scenery is so beautiful :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing one of the ten variants of a squat. I was pretending that I was a swan, because I was looking out over the pond, where the swans were elegantly swimming and flying back and forth from the lake. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our fitness instructor on my laptop is here telling us to keep going when the pain kicks in!! :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final exercise before heading in to make the pretzel sticks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the doughy pretzel sticks into the simmering water and baking soda. This is so that the develop a skin before they go into the oven. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pretzel sticks before the oven. They look quite weird here, like little worms.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pretzel sticks in the oven, getting their sun tan on :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out of the oven!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making the caramel for the caramel and gingerbread dip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking the temperature. It was supposed to get to 165C before taking the pan off the hob, but it was starting to crystallise!! AHH!!</td></tr>
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Tearfund has posted about the difficulties of living in Honduras. On average there are <u>20 murders</u> a day. Because of <i><a href="http://www.tearfund.org/en-sc/latest/lent_appeal/" target="_blank">Tearfund</a></i> we can start making a difference to the people who live there simply by donating money and praying for justice. Here is an excerpt from their website:</div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 17.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Angela is from San Pedro Sula, where the slum she calls home is perched precariously along a riverbank running through the centre of the city. Every day is a struggle for families in this community to find the work needed to survive. It is hard to imagine how their children can forge a better future, with schools out of reach and the constant threat of drug trafficking and gang violence (Tearfund 2017). </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<i>The vegan cake for the almost-vegan queen!! <3</i></div>
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<i>Unfortunately, Sophie couldn't have this cake, but she was fine with that ;) She doesn't particularly like fruity cakes (like this one) in general. </i></div>
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<i>But we were going to be making it anyways!! </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pistachios!! They look like flower petals <3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The batter is almost ready!! We added half ground pistachios and half normal flour. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer giving it the final fold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pouring into cake tin over apricots, pistachios and honey syrup</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slowly filling up ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It looks so cool!!!! :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out of the oven!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning it upside-down, so that it is right way up ;) If that makes sense!! haha</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking so delish!!</td></tr>
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It was soooo amazing!! I highly recommend this cake :D The almost-vegan queen in our flat said that it is better than any coffee shop cake, and I think everyone who tried it can second that! Please ask me for the recipe, because I want you ALL the try this!!! Seriously, the best combination. </div>
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So this week <i>Tearfund</i> uploaded a post called "Standing Together Against the Darkness". It talks about a guy called Leandro Silva who goes into dangerous Brazilian neighbourhoods and helps to empower churches to start making a change for the better in their communities against violence and trafficking. After much amazing success in taking the violence and trafficking away from these notorious neighbourhoods, him and his wife started ALEF mission, with much help from other leaders, to bring this change to many of the poorest parts of Northern Brazil. If you would like to read more about this awesome mission, please click the link above!</div>
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I would love if could all please take 2 minutes and pray over these three points:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">For Leandro and Adrylle, so they can continue to build and encourage ministers and Christians all over Brazil.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">That the churches in Felipe <span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CamarĆ£o will continue to overcome the violence and corruption in their district. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more and more churches and Christians throughout Brazil to catch the vision of working together for social change. </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></li>
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Thank you guys!!!</div>
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Till our next bake,</div>
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The Baking Students</div>
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xoxo</div>
Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-27256283779005148702017-03-13T06:48:00.000-07:002017-03-21T06:59:49.122-07:00Week 19: Macaroons <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>I had told myself that the first time I made macaroons I would make it with my brother. Well, the opportunity just wasn't there, so I did the next best thing. Making macaroons for the first time with my friends :D The photos in this post are taken by Sophie. </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring out the sugar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whisking the egg whites </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Measuring the almond meal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking the recipe!! The most important part!!!! ;) (directed to Pamela)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blending the almond meal. I am hoping that it will make it finer, but I don't think it did anything ;) I am just kidding myself :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At least I tried ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stirring sugar and water to make a sugar syrup </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was so hard to know when to stop stirring and start checking the temperature!! I think this was the most complicated part of the recipe ;) My tip: By calm (unlike my hysterics;))</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer and I showing our anxiety at the sugar syrup (as you can see, I was more anxious than Jennifer ;))</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whisking the egg whites </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the sugar syrup to the egg whites, making the Italian meringue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the food colouring ;) A drop at a time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see, the colouring didn't really work. We must have put 20 drops of red food colouring, and it was still pale pink. What do they put in those things? ;)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Mixing up the Italian meringue (syrup mixed with egg) and French meringue (sugar mixed with egg) mixtures to make the macaroon batter.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Folding it all together </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holding my breath hoping that it will all stay together!</td></tr>
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Now the piping begins!!! We had printed off some templates, and placed those under the baking paper on baking trays, so we knew where to pipe. Yay!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer doing an amazing job piping the batter. We realised later that we piped these too big, and so they stick together :( </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first few macaroons looking awesome and perfectly rounded :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The technique we had come up with was to swirl the piping bag around in circles. I think it worked quite well :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie even gave the piping a go!!</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">And the batter kept coming, so we ended up with four trays of macaroons.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Here is Pamela's beautiful piping :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the oven. As you can see, the first piping we did we piped too large, and so they were sticking together. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first batch of macaroons out of the oven!!</td></tr>
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We decided to sandwich them together with this awesome bramble and apple jam that a friend made. The jam was kind of bitter, so the sugariness of the macaroon worked well to balance out the sweet/sour ratio. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The delightful macaroons that were our first batch that we made!! I can't believe I am saying that: We ACTUALLY MADE these lovely macaroons!!! :D</td></tr>
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I had a request from my brother to make some more when I go to see him in April, so we will be making them again soon :D</div>
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As a testimonial of the awesomeness of these cookies, my friend (who works at<i> Patisserie</i> <i>Valeri</i> (a cafe with amazing cakes)) said that our macaroons were better than they were at her cafe!! I was almost in tears ;)</div>
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Guys, we are challenging ourselves to make these recipes, not because we want to bake ourselves to death, but because we want to raise awareness of the need to give and pray for those children who go without food. Right now there is a food shortage in East Africa, and so it would be so encouraging for us if you could click on the tab above called <i>East Africa Crisis Appeal</i> and donate towards bringing the much needed support in these areas.<br />
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Thank you very much for reading this blog post, and stepping up to help those less fortunate than us!!<br />
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-4170227219549144902017-02-27T15:30:00.000-08:002017-03-18T15:38:29.299-07:00Week 18: Chai and Chocolate Cookies <i>As many of you will know, we are a flat that LOVE tea, and my personal favourite tea is chai tea, so we were all looking forward to these chai and chocolate cookies with bated breath!! Let alone how much we all love chocolate ;) Let's just say, these are winners in our eyes :D </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Table laden with cooking essentials :) We made these vegan, so that is why we have vegan chocolate and butter on the counter ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am only 4 grams over the limit, I am sure it won't make much of a difference ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding both wet and dry, along with the chocolate, and into the fridge for 30 minutes <3 It tasted AMAZING!!! Especially with the banana instead of egg, since Caroline told us that it is bad for you to eat cookie dough with raw eggs ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching the cookies expand and become all fat and full! Rather like Santa Claus ;) hehe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating the cookies right out of the oven <3 You can see how the chocolate was oozing out!! :D If your mouth isn't watering by now, I don't think you understand how amazing these cookies were!!</td></tr>
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We then made this recipe once more after this time, since they went so quickly ;), and we decided to add cinnamon and more chai powder (which was stated in the recipe, but I forgot to put into the first cookies). hehe. We also decided to use eggs, instead of banana, since the banana was very over-powering. Not a bad thing though. </div>
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It is safe to say that this is an awesome, simple and mouth-watering recipe :D</div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-25261290183007985432017-02-20T09:46:00.000-08:002017-02-27T09:47:43.579-08:00Week 17: Gin and Tonic Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Now, I was very much opposed to this cake because of its associated with alcohol, and therefore I took it off our list of recipes we would be baking for this cookbook (which would have been the only recipe we would not have baked), but that would have meant that we were telling a lie when we said that we were going to make all the recipes in the cookbook. And anyway, Jennifer was not opposed to it, so we collectively decided to make it.</i></div>
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Nevertheless, we strive forward for a great cake!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing the grated lime into the batter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The batter (that had lime zest in it) tasted so good!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lime juice with gin and tonic. There was only 25 ml of gin, so apparently you couldn't taste it, and definitely not get tipsy ;) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the oven. This time around, since it was a TWIST from the pink grapefruit loaf cake, it took much longer in the oven. We then came to the conclusion, after several attempts at baking, and the cooking time had been pushed past its time, that our new oven was not new anymore. I think, perhaps we over used it ;) hehe</td></tr>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-45630218874836881162017-02-19T15:51:00.000-08:002017-02-27T09:47:56.268-08:00Tearfund update: Yemen humanitarian crisis<div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-top: 1.4em;">
<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Why are we baking so much food, you might ask. Good question!!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are challenging ourselves to bake so many cakes because not only because is it great to challenge ourselves, but mainly because we want to raise awareness for a charity called Tearfund that provides nutritious meals for those who are in poverty.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine starving? Imagine not having enough food to eat for a whole day? I mean, as students that is pretty normal ;) hehe. But imagine not eating for a week, a month. Eventually you would die. Pretty grim, right? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The charity Tearfund step in and give those people who are starving nutritious meals so that they won't die. Simple process, big results. They have saved countless lives. Lives that are too precious to waste away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yemen is the worldās worst humanitarian crisis today ā 18.8 million people urgently need humanitarian assistance.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conflict has devastated the nation leaving thousands of innocent civilians dead and three-quarters of Yemenis without access to safe water, food, healthcare or sanitation.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A situation of deadly airstrikes, destroyed infrastructure and a desperate lack of food and water has been worsened by flooding and landslides since July, with many people losing their homes.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite a very difficult operating environment, Tearfund's partners in Yemen are working to reach those suffering from the conflict. They have distributed food and hygiene kits to reduce the risk of deadly disease and prevent its spread, and are planning to help bring medicines and water.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tearfund has launched an immediate response and weāre also part of the national <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.tearfund.org/en/about_us/what_we_do_and_where/issues/disasters/#DEC" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b7779;">DEC appeal</a></span>, an initiative that brings together 13 leading UK charities in times of crisis.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here at the Baking Students we believe in doing what is right, not just for ourselves and those immediately around us, but the for the world. And right now, what is right is to help where the help is needed in the Yemen crisis. If you can spare even just a little money to support Yemen in this urgent need, please do donate. </span></div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-7181514203940446062017-02-10T13:31:00.000-08:002017-02-16T14:37:34.469-08:00Week 16: Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The next step was my job: blitzing the peanuts till it was butter. Apparently not that difficult...</div>
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Sophie had friends over the night we made the cookies. They must have really like them, because in the morning there was only half of the cookies left ;) </div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-15185925904690327472017-02-08T14:36:00.000-08:002017-02-16T14:46:28.786-08:00Week 16: PiƱata Malt Cake<i>Hello (Hallo) this is Sophie, taster of baking, taker of photographs and the moral support. (Laura is captioning the photos).</i><br />
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So the of baking was "stressy": not only did we have 3 cakes to bake, but we had to do it without Jen realising what it was for. It was fine to start with, as we knew that Jen was out, but we didn't know when she was coming back. We all got fidgety every time the kitchen door creaked opened. We had decided on the malted piƱata cake as the birthday cake, chocolate cupcakes and vegan banana bread (which I'm eating just now).</div>
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Laura made a plan of attack which started with the malt cakes as it was our main cake and the most complex to create. Also everything else we were baking we had done before and had a crack team to bake, even I did some actual helping. *shock*</div>
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The malt cake was two layers so Laura made the first but in a pan that was too big, and under careful instruction Caroline made the other in a pan that was too small, and as a result they took longer to bake than expected ... but we were still on track for time. Despite the watchful eye of Laura, Caroline forgot to mix the sugar and the butter for her cake before the liquid, this lead to a weird bubbly bit on top but it was going to be covered by icing so it was all good.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baking the cake: planer and co-baker</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline's pouring skills :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">We had to somehow mix in the butter to the liquid... hmm...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were just going to bake it and see what happened</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first cake came out looking alright</td></tr>
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Time for me to do some actual helping - Caroline was making the buttercream for the icing so I helped by adding ingredients slowly, as she whisked before we switched places. Making buttercream needs elbow grease even with the hand mixer. hahaha</div>
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Since this was a piƱata cake it meant that it had gummy sweets in the middle, briefly Caroline and I forgot about this so we started icing it before we had cut the middle out for the sweets. Oops!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Placing the sweets in the middle of the PiƱata cake</td></tr>
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This wasn't a problem as it was obvious we had only done this so that when we cut the middle out we had a mini cake that we could try for ourselves hahaha. After we had put the sweets in the middle we had some left over so we used them to decorate the outside of the cake. Unfortunately, we had forgotten that gummy sweets melt and that we didn't let the cake cool properly, so when we came to cut it they had melted into a blob... but oh well it tasted good haha.</div>
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While we were busy with that Laura and Morven set about with the Chocolate Cupcakes. This is when I started to get fidgety. This may have been the result of left over coffee from the cupcakes ;) Making these cupcakes was a piece of cake (pun intended) as we have made them before.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The busiest of busy!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morven making the ganache</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me bossing everyone around ;) And they all listened to me!! YES :D haha</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morven ready to put the ganache on the stove</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melting the ganache on the stove top</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cupcakes!!!! So I made the chocolate cupcakes, and placed them in Caroline's silicone cupcake cases</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cupcakes out of the oven. They were such a drag to squeeze out of the cases!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pamela icing the cupcakes!! </td></tr>
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Queue the arrival of Pamela to start on the vegan banana bread! Making banana bread is not new to Pamela, but the method was as it involved following the recipe under strict instructions from Laura. We did have to alter the recipe slightly as Pamela is 90% vegan so we swapped yogurt for soya yogurt and butter for coconut oil. </div>
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<i>I just want to say, in my DEFENCE: I DID follow the instructions this time for the vegan banana bread! :D Okay, maybe just changed butter for coconut oil. And added one more banana instead of egg. And of corse used soya yoghurt. But apart from that, I followed Laura's instructions EXACTLY. And it turned out pretty well! </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pamela taking instructions from me!! Hence, following the recipe :D</td></tr>
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During all this ... DISASTER!!!<br />
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Jen came in to the kitchen, ahhhh!!!! Quick thinking by Pamela to say we were helping her bake for her bake sale the next day, despite it meaning she would miss quite a lot of class, but we got away with it. </div>
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Jen left to go on a walk with Caroline, which was our devious plan to get rid of both of them so we could set the surprise part of the party up. We got away with it, and shortly after I found myself lying of the floor laughing, because I think the stress had got to me (and the sugar and possibly the caffeine!!!!!!!!)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icing the cake :) It was a very stressful job as there was not nearly enough icing, but we somehow made it stretch ...</td></tr>
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Time for some more helping. Laura, Pamela and I iced the cupcakes. When I say iced, I mean partly stick them back together because some of them crumbled a bit when we took them out of the silicone cupcake cases.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cake!! We were so proud of the awesome creation</td></tr>
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Time to call in the reinforcements to set up. We had some friends waiting down where the party was going to be to help decorate, and some helping bring down the mountain of cake. An hour of frantic decorating and pacing later Caroline returned with Jen and the surprise party was on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the baking set up for the surprise party!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the special birthday people :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline and Allan realise here that the birthday surprise is for them as well :D hehe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Birthday recipients, with cake!! Jennifer, Caroline and Allan</td></tr>
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To top all of this week we had entered into a pizza making contest at our halls and we got 2nd place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The winning pizza: Caroline's tomato sauce, mushrooms, roasted peppers, sweetcorn, sun-dried tomatoes and basil leaves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The winning squad, plus a friend :D</td></tr>
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It's been a very EXTREMELY busy week, until next time. We are off to sleep for a week :D </div>
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<i>Thinking back to baking this I recall how I had a bike accident the day before we made it. That is how I remembered when we made this. Not to worry, I was feeling fine. Just a little battered ;)</i></div>
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The day was a lovely sunny day, and I had just bought some gorgeous bluey-purple flowers, which I didn't know the name of. To top things of on this lovely day, we were all (mostly all of us) in the kitchen trying the grapefruit that was left over from the zest we needed in the cake ;) Here is Sophie trying the fruit for the first time:</div>
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So without further a do, and with our grapefruit trying done and dusted for the year (it was VERY bitter, and Sophie did have a point about it tasting like the yucky taste from drinking juice right after brushing your teeth), we got stuck in to the recipe.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting the grapefruit drizzle ready for when the cake came out of the oven. There was A LOT of icing sugar in that!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the meantime we decided to decorate our flat :) What do you think?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And we also decorated the W that we had stuck on the noticeboard during the first month in our flat. We did this because we usually have the "Wee World Cafe" meetings for International Students in our flat :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DRIZZLE!! We were quite unsure when to put the drizzle on, so after some brief deliberation we decided on just going with it. I had not idea cause I had never made drizzle cake before, and neither had any of the other baking students, so we went with Jennifer on this one.</td></tr>
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The taste was ... so deliciously zingy. Is that the right word? It was light, and yet it was heavy. I am not even making sense!! haha. So the citrus fruit made it very fresh on the palate, but the denseness of the glaze in the cake made it heavy. I mean, I could easily have eaten piece after piece!! haha</div>
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Laura http://www.blogger.com/profile/14060932945939861548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-43459704617981897792017-01-20T11:08:00.000-08:002017-02-15T09:57:33.117-08:00Week 13: Date, Maple and Pecan Cookies <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Jennifer wrote this post :) I have had so many wonderful reviews from these cookies!! A match made in heaven <3 </i></span><br />
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Jenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272962998097867208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427700876680711115.post-73695417627711995642017-01-12T09:49:00.000-08:002017-02-15T09:58:54.640-08:00Week 12: Ginger and White Chocolate Loaf <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all loved this loaf!!! I made it the day before I left to go to Edinburgh, so that meant I only got one piece of the cake :( My parents really enjoyed having some baked goods in the house though !!</div>
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