Sunday, 13 October 2013

134. Carrot Cake

Kitchen Hero: Great Food for less (Donal Skehan) - link to book
Rating: 4.5/5
Comment: This was pretty good. Made some minor modifications - it's supposed to be a carrot and cardamom cake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting - but left out the cardamom, using 2 tsp of cinnamon in place of 1, omitted the cinnamon from the icing (also used 50g less icing sugar and could probably have gotten away with even less) and added a bit of vanilla extract. It was a moist and tasty cake. (Also used 20 cm tins instead of 23cm).
Use again? Possibly.
Nice recipes from this book: Maple apple teacake, Cauliflower and broccoli mac & cheese, molten chocolate puddings.

133. Crispy Mustard Chicken Tray bake (D. Skehan)

Kitchen Hero: Great Food for less (Donal Skehan) - link to book
Rating: 3/5
Comment: A basic chicken tray bake that was surprisingly tasty. Used chicken breasts rather than thighs and removed them for the last 5-10 minutes (should really have added them later).
Use again? Probably not.
Nice recipes from this book: Maple apple teacake, Cauliflower and broccoli mac & cheese, molten chocolate puddings.

Sunday, 6 October 2013

132.Chocolate Profiteroles (M Berry)

Mary Berry's complete cookbook 
Rating: 5/5 
Comment: I wanted to try the Mary B version of profiteroles after watching the Great British Bake off bakers make the religieuses recently. Decided to stick with one size profiteroles rather than the 2 separate and used whipped cream filling rather than creme patisserie. I followed the recipe, and Mary's instructions once again produced a great result! I got 11 instead of 12, and they were rather large.
This is from one of my must-have books which I turn to for traditional recipes.
Use it again: Yes. The last  profiterole recipe I used didn't work out so well so I will definitely use this again :-)