As new buns and cakes are in the making, we wanted to show you a few baking exercises we worked on yesterday. Great result with making a whole wheat loaf, which tasted so much better then the average blugghhh tasting factory bread with elastic ‘crust’. Also made scones and this eventful Saturday ended with pizza, [...]
Life is too short for bad coffee. So I strive to let my crema ooze out of the espresso machine like thick amber honey (like we did in the picture). Not an easy task, but practice makes perfect. Making a good espresso is almost an art. It’s hard to get it right with every shot.
But [...]
I decided to marry two recent favourites in these cupcakes. I used rose liqueur in the cakes and macha green tea in the frosting. Ideally I’d end up with rose tea cupcakes that of course would go perfect with a cup of Rose tea, because you can never have enough of a good thing. I [...]
Still no sign of our new Rofco ’semi professional’ baking oven. So while waiting for it, we might as well bake some more bread in our little normal household oven with a capacity of one bread at a time. We hope to improve the crustiness of the bread crust and achieve a more open, creamy [...]
Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
Home Coffee Roasting, Revised, Updated Edition: Romance and Revival
Currently Baking: Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day
Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes
So Handy! Cupcake Courier, in Petal Pink
I'm very fond of my Nordic Ware Cast Aluminum Garland Bundt Pan
Before our real brick oven we used this La Cloche Brick Oven...
My KitchenAid 5-Quart Mixer in Empire Red
