Classic Apple Pie

     This is one of the best recipes for fall. My family and I have already made two of these apple pies this September, and they are always the best warm comfort food!



                Make It Yourself

Watch the video On how to make this apple pie!



    To start this recipe off, you will preheat the oven 400, and prepare some cold butter, flour, ice water, apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, cornstarch and brown sugar. Each component of the pie is very simple and easy to pull together, so lets first start with the crust!

Pie Crust

    1: Mesure flour into a food processor, then add butter and pulse until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.

    2:Pour in 3 tablespoons of ice cold water, into the processor, so the dough is starting to clump up.

    3:At this stage quickly, knead and press the mixture into a firm dough,. 

    4:Split in 2, wrap in a cloth and refrigerate for an hour.

                        Filling

    1:Chop apples, and pour them into a large bowl.

    2:Add cinnamon, and nutmeg, then toss the ingredients together.

       3:Add the cornstarch and then the brown sugar, incorporate fully.

Ingredients

1 egg

1 1/2 cups of flour

8 tbls of cold butter

3 tbls of cold water

6 sliced apples

2 tsp cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

2 teaspoons cornstarch

1/2 cup of brown sugar

Putting it Together

    Start Off with rolling out your pie crust, and line the pie dish, take a fork and prick the bottom, then add the apples and set aside. roll out the other pie dough and cut in into long strips.


After doing so you can make a  traditional lattice or what I did, just folded the strips over and under, in a pattern. Lightly brush the top of the pie with a egg wash, and pop in the oven for 40 minutes then turn the heat down to 345 and bake for another 10 minutes.

Notes

I made the pie crust in a food processor, but its also very easy to make it by hand, with a pastry blender!

    

   

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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Cinnamon Swirl Bread


    Cinnamon swirl bread is one of my favorite things to bake, you can have a piece toasted for breakfast or plain for desert, its very easy to make and you will most likely have the ingredients around your house!


Make It Yourself
Watch the video on how to make Cinnamon Bread

Ingredients
Flour-400g
Water-250 ml
Yeast-7g
Salt-8g
Cinnamon-3 teaspoons
Sugar-1/2 cup

Recipe 
   1. To start this Loaf, preheat your oven to 420f put your flour in a large bowl.  Then Take your yeast and sprinkle it on one side of the bowl, sprinkle the salt on the other side, if the salt is put directly on the yeast it could kill it.  
2. After this step add the butter and a splash of the water, use your finger tips to incorporate the wet ingredients with the dry.  when  it starts to form add more of the water, continue adding the rest of your water until you get  a rough dough, you might not. need to add all of the water. Put this dough on a slightly oiled surface and need to smooth, 
3. then put in a oiled bowl with a cloth on top and let rise from 1 to 2 hours so it has doubled in size.
4. Take your dough out of the bowl and roll out to form a rough rectangle then sprinkle on the cinnamon and sugar mixture, you may not need to use all of it. Then roll neatly and place in loaf tin, let rise with cover for another 30 minutes to an hour
5. Put in oven for twenty  to 30 minutes, check on it once in a while to make sure it doesn't over bake.  Let cool for ten minutes before taking it out of the tin. 
 6. Enjoy!
Notes
This bread tends to make a smaller loaf so don't think you messed  up the recipe if yours is smaller than you thought it might be!

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

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Back to school, Ginger Cake, with a Caramel and Cream Filling!

         
           September is here, and something that always comes with September is School. So I've decided to start the new year off with cake!



    Make It Your Self

    To start the cake off preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter or grease three 9  inch pans. Then Combine the ingredient to make the batter.  
Caramel
    1 cup of heavy cream
1 1/2 of sugar, granulated
1/2 cup of water
  
    To make this easy caramel sauce  heat the water and sugar together for 3 minutes it should be bubbling slightly, DO NOT STIR this will make your caramel quite grainy in the end, and will not have the smoothness you might have been hoping for.  Set a timer for 10 to 15 minutes, it should start to color, and bubble a lot. Then, once its a gold-ish color, take off heat and add the cream carefully, bit by bit.  At this point with a metal whisk, stir fast while pouring in cream, the mixture will bubble up for a while you should start feel the caramel thickening with your whisk, once it is no longer bubbling, let cool for an hour then refrigerate and your done!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Ginger Cake

 1 cup of butter

1 1/4 cups of sugar

1/3 cups of  Molasses

  4 tbls of ground ginger

 1 tbl of cinnamon 

3 eggs

 2 tsp of baking soda

   1 1/4 cups milk

  1 1/4 cups of self rising flour*

*if you do not have self rising flour you can try adding baking powder to flour.

                                                Watch the video on how to make a ginger cake!

                              
    Its important to try to put the cakes in the oven as soon as you add the milk, and baking soda, so the cakes will rise more.
                    Decor, and filling
        So unfortunately the  the device I was using to film this part ran out of battery, and being me I didn't notice untill after finishing so I'm going to try to explain this part.  Take a spatula and spread a thin layer of butter cream on the first layer. Then fill a piping bag with whatever type of butter cream you made, and pipe around the edge of the cake making a wall.  Then take a scoop of caramel and spread it out in the middle, with as much as you want.  Do the that process for all layers.  Decorating is completely  optional you could pipe, spread or leave the cake plain! 
Notes
      Just repeating, Its important to try to put the cakes in the oven as soon as you add the milk, and baking soda, so the cakes will rise more.    After you add all the  ingredients except the milk and eggs, your batter might turn into more of a dough, But that it completely fine after the last wet  ingredients are added it will thin into the batter form again!    

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

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Quick Almond and Vanilla Cake

 
   Make It Your Self!
         I love this Cake, partly because its delicious, but also doesn't take much time to pop in 
the oven. I cant wait to bring you through the process!  

    I've slowly over time developed this recipe, originally it was just a vanilla cake, but I was feeling the need of an almond flavor last night. The great thing about this recipe is it can work with you, whether you add vanilla or almonds, some lemon it all taste great, so feel free to work with the recipe and ingredients!


Almond and Vanilla Cake Video




    

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Iced Cat shaped ShortBread Cookies


    
    Happy Thursday!  Today I have another food blog, Shortbread Cookies from the cookbook, Baking With Kim-Joy.   Kim-Joy is a finalist from the Great British Bake Off and she has a lot of good and fun recipes that I recommend!  
    These cookies were fairly simple, I mixed butter, flour, sugar and a little salt.  I chilled this cookie dough for an hour or two, rolled it out and cut the cookies into simple cat heads with a knife and circle cutter.
. I baked these cookies for 15 minutes at 300 degrees but this is not exactly what the recipe called for, but I changed it a bit so the process was easier in my kitchen.
     For the icing I used the same frosting from my last Post.
Heavy cream and powdered sugar, this frosting/icing is very easy, you mix those two ingredients, adding more or less of each until you get the consistency you like, I added a little more cream so it was more thin and more of a cookie icing.  
    You can really add your own twist on the decorations, I decided not to add faces to the cats because I wanted it to have more of  a simple look, but they would both look great!


                                       The recipe for the Cookie: 
                                           Sugar  85g or 3/4 cups
                                           Butter 200g or 14 tablespoons
                                           Flour  270g or about 2 cups


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