Copyright [2020] [Barbara Moore]
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It is impossible to imagine our lives without sweets, isnt it ? Desserts, cakes, pies, cookies, cupcakes are favorite dishes of many people. Sweets are especially in demand among women. Candies and chocolates are the key to a good mood of girls. Coffee and tea will not be able to reveal the fullness of their taste without good desserts. Sitting in a cafe and walking around the city is also accompanied by the purchase of sweets. This book will allow you to cook delicious cakes, pastries, pies at home.
In addition, homemade cakes, created with your own hands, are not only much tastier, but also much more useful than store-bought products. Fresh, fragrant, crispy bread, fluffy sponge cakes stuffed with airy creamy filling, crispy cookies, sweet pies, healthy baking recipes, - how many miracles the oven can give us! This book contains recipes for wonderful home baking for every taste , the secrets of culinary skills, and useful advice concerning baking. Choose, experiment and please yourself and your loved ones.
Good appetite!
Whenever you want to learn how to bake cakes or desserts, slight chaos arises in your head and you are hesitated: what kind of devices to buy, what ingredients should be ready, how to cook, and so on.
If you are a novice in baking, we have prepared for you a list of must-have devices that will be handy for the first time and will ease the baking process and your first culinary masterpieces will hit the spot.
The following cooking appliance will help you cook easier and save some of your precious time and money.
Must-have devices for a novice cook
Apron
The main rule in the kitchen is maximum cleanliness and order. The cleanliness begins with a neat cook. An apron is an indispensable attribute in any cooking, so you should start with it. No matter how carefully you cook, specks of ingredients appear on clothes one way or another. You dont want to spoil your favorite thing, do you? Therefore, be sure to purchase a simple apron.
Mixer
For a beginner, a regular manual one will be enough. It is perfect for quickly mixing ingredients: for example, when making cream and mixing dough.
Scales
In baking, accuracy is the most important thing, and a small mistake can lead to unpleasant consequences.
Bakeware
It can be like round solid shapes, shapes with a removable bottom, just rings. Your arsenal should have several shapes, both of different diameters and different shapes: round, oval, rectangular, for cupcakes, and tartlets. This will allow you to diversify your pastries and be a more versatile cook, which means that you will delight loved ones and friends with a variety of pastries.
Silicone baking mat
Silicone mats can be used instead of baking paper. They are also ideal for rolling pastry dough, pie dough, pizza dough, and much more.
Whisk
A good whisk is a must in a kitchen. Sometimes its easier and faster to use a whisk than a mixer. The whisk is needed in such cases when in the recipe you just need to combine something, but do not mix completely.
In addition, if it is not possible to purchase a mixer, the whisk will serve you as a good alternative. You just have to mix it longer.
Silicone spatula
Silicone spatula completely removes cream from the pan/bowl, saves, and does not spoil the surface of the dishes due to the soft touch, does not create noise during operation.
Rolling pin
Theres not much to say about the rolling pin. Its role in baking is obvious.
Mixing bowls
Bowls are needed to mix and store different ingredients during the preparation of baked goods. The ingredients can be different: dry mixes and liquid components.
Beaker
One way to measure the liquid is with a measuring cup. You must have at least one beaker to determine the volume of liquids.
Sieve
Some recipes require sifting dry ingredients such as flour, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder.
This is necessary so that sticky lumps of products, as well as particles of garbage that sometimes come in flour from unscrupulous manufacturers, do not get into the dough and cream.
Good oven
A high-quality oven is the guarantee of successful dishes.
You dont have to add any secret ingredients to make the dough the right texture and the pastries tasty and fluffy. The only thing you need to do is to follow the technology of preparation strictly and of course be aware of some baking secrets We have collected the best tips for you, in one chapter. May your baking experiments will always succeed!
Master Real Baking Secrets.
15 Useful Everyday Lifehacks
In most cases, the ingredients should be of room temperature. So, take out the butter and eggs in advance from the refrigerator. (particularly it concerns sponge cake and pies)
To prevent the dough from burning during the baking process, place a pan filled with water under the baking tray.
Yeast should not come into contact with salt or fat when kneading the dough, otherwise, they lose their ability to rise.
The salt in the dough should be put carefully: over-salted dough does not rise well, and the baking goods turn out pale.
Whipped egg whites should be added into the dough, stirring it very gently(!) on one side. If you stir vigorously, they will reduce in volume and the cake will be dense.
When joining the parts of the batter (for sponge cake), add a light mixture to a heavy one, but not the other way around.
Cooled pastries should be filled with hot syrup, and hot with cold.
Dont add a lot of fat in the dough: the pies will come out shapeless and with a hard crumb.
It is important for the dough to add a small (approximately 5 g per 500 g of flour) amount of salt. It emphasizes the sweet taste of baking. However, do not add salt to the leavened dough: it kills yeast fungi.
If you use only egg yolk to make short crust pastry for the cake, the cakes will not crumble when cut.
The surplus of sugar in the dough slows down its fermentation, and when baking the crust is quickly fried, while the middle is still raw.
To keep the product soft (top and bottom crusts), cover it while it is still hot.
If you want to make a yummy, golden crust grease the buns with a strongly brewed black tea.
If the dough sticks to hands-grease the hands with butter or oil.
The baking time depends on your oven so keep an eye on your baking goods when they are being cooked and rely on flavor.
General measurements, lifehacks how to measure products if you dont have scales at home.
In many recipes, the exact proportions of the products must be observed. However, not all housewives have a kitchen scale.
So, what the solution of this problem ? - Actually, there are 3 the most common ways :
1. You can measure products with the help of a teaspoon.