ChOcolate alfajor

On friday I went to buy some tips I needed, and ended up buying a cOuple of magazines too, sorry I couldnt help it mom :3


But one of the magazines had the most cool recipe for chocolate alfajores, wich is a South American recipe, and a very yummi one. So heres the magazine and the recipe...:D

Cookies:

• 450g of AP flour
• 200 of powdered Sugar
• 300g Butter or Margarine
• 2 eggs
• Salt
• 1 tspVanilla Flavor 
• 1/2 a tso almond flovor
• Baking powder 1tsp
• Baking soda 1/2 tsp
•  30g Cocoa
• 2 tbsp of glucose

Procedure:

Cream the butter with the sugar and glucose until light and fluffy. Add egs one by one.

Make a well with all dry ingredients.

Add the flavorings

Crum the mixture of butter with the dry ingredients

Only integrate, as a pie dough.

Chill dough for at least an hour. 

roll ou and cu in circles

Bake a 300F for 18 to 20 min.

Let it cool.

Assembly

Dulce de Leche 

Ganache :

·                     1/2 c heavy cream

·                     8 oz  semi-sweet chocolate chunks

·                     2 T light corn syrup

·                     2 t of kahlúa

Drop in one cookie some dulce de leche and seal. Pour he chocolate ganache an let it cool (I did it overnight)

You can decorate with some candy melts. 

mOmmys day presents

...Everyones know how much I love to bake ....especially cupcake  so for mother's day I made chOcOlate cupcakes and banana nut muffins here are the recipes.

Chocolate Cupcake

1 box of .Bettycrocker devil's food Cake mix
1/2 cup of melted butter
3 eggs
1 cup of milk

Bake cake according to package. I also added coconut and some chocolate chips to the batter.

I also made some amazing banana muffins....


Chocolate Chip, Nuts and Coconut Muffins

 1/2 cup butter

• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup mashed banana
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup of All-Purpose Flour
• 1 cup of Whole Wheat Flour
• 3/4 cup chocolate chip
• 1 cup chopped nuts
•          1 cup shredded coconut

Directions

1) Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 12 to 14 standard muffin cups. You'll use the larger number of cups if you include the full amount of all three add-ins: chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon chips.

2) In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar till smooth.

3) Beat in the mashed banana, then the egg, flavorings, and milk.

4) Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and flours, stirring till smooth; if the mixture has a lot of lumps, beat at a higher speed until they've nearly disappeared.

5) Stir in the chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon chips.

6) If you've used cinnamon Flav-R-Bites, allow the batter to rest for 30 minutes at room temperature; this will soften the bites up. While the batter's resting, preheat the oven to 350°F.

7) Heap the thick batter into the prepared muffin cups, mounding them quite full; a muffin scoop works well here. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with coarse white sparkling sugar, if desired.

8) Bake the muffins for 20 to 23 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center of one of the middle muffins in the pan comes out clean.

9) Remove the muffins from the oven, and tilt them in the pan to cool a bit; this will prevent their bottoms from becoming soggy. As soon as you can safely handle them, transfer the muffins to a rack to cool completely.

Yield: 12 to 14 muffins.

Whole Grain Bread....:)

Today I made these bread, it turned  out sO sO...sO I  modified the recipe to add a little more flavor to the bread. Trust me I turned out amazing that way, plus is really healthy. 

Ingredients:

3 cups of whole wheat flour

2 cups of bread flour

1/2 cup of sugar

1/4 tsp of salt

1.5 tbs of butter

1 oz of fresh yeast

1 oz of flaxseed seed

1 oz of poppyseed

1oz of sunflower seeds

.5oz of sesame seed

1oz of pumpkin seeds

1 egg 

Preparation:

1. Weight ingredients
2. Make a well with dry ingredients (flours, salt )
3. In the center dissolve sugar,  and yeast. 
4. Mix well and slowly start adding flour.
5. When there's no liquid add the butter and knead for about 10 min.
6. Add the seeds
7. Knead the dough to integrate the seeds.
8. Let the dough rise for 20 min
9. Make balls  
10. Make figurations as a roll or a baguette.
11. Brush them with egg and add sesame seeds , if desired
12. Let them rise until they doble therir size and bake
13. Bake at 360 F for 15 minute.

mOre whOle wheat bread....mmmm and one Of the mOst delicious cOokies

I bake some of these delicious breads in yesterday class. They are amazing, specially the cookies. 


Whole Wheat Bread with Parmesan


Ingredients:

• 3 cups of whole wheat bread
• 2 cups of bread flour
• .5oz of sugar
• .5oz fresh yeast
• 1.5 of butter
• 1.5 cups of water
• .25 oz of salt
• 1 oz of powder milk 
• Parmesan, red pepper flakes, etc for garnishing
• 1 beaten egg

Preparation:

1. Weight ingredients
2. Make a well with dry ingredients (flour, salt )
3. In the center dissolve sugar,  and yeast. 
4. Mix well and slowly start adding flour.
5. When there's no liquid add the butter and knead for about 10 min.
6. Let the dough rise for 20 min
7. Make balls  
8. Let them rest for 15 min.
9. Mafe figurations as a baguette.
10. Let them rise until they doble therir size and bake
11. Brush them with egg and add sesame seeds , if desired, also parmesan, herbs, etc on top
12. Bake at 360 F for 15 minutes

Whole Wheat Almond Cookies

• 3 cups of whole wheat flour
• 1 cup of cake flour
• 2 oz of ground almon
• 12.5 oz of granulated sugar (using half half with brown sugar would be amazing)
• 6.5 oz of butter
• 3 eggs
• .25oz of baking soda
• 1 tsp of concentrated almond scent

Preparation:

1. Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy
2. Add dry ingredients and mix, just to integrate the dough 
3. Make alarge roll and cut, or make little balls
4. Decorate with oats, almonds, flaxseeds 
5. bake at 175C for 18 min.

Something cool about these  dough is that can be frozen for up to a year and the cookies last about 4 months. 

Whole Wheat Breads

Yesterday I made these delicious and healthy recipes that I highly recomende you . They are amazing and flavorful, great for any ocassion. 


Garlic Rolls

• 3 cups of whole wheat flour
• 3 cups of bread flour
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1/4 tsp of salt
• 1/4 cup of butter
• 1 oz of fresh yeast
• 2.5 tbs of olive oil
• 2 tbs of fresh garlic(Sauté them with a little olive oil for more flavor)

Directions

1. Weight ingredients
2. Make a well with dry ingredients (flour, salt )
3. In the center dissolve sugar,  and yeast. 
4. Mix well and slowly start adding flour.
5. When there's no liquid add the oil and knead for about 10 min.
6. Add the fry garlic 
7. Let the dough rise for 20 min
8. Make balls  
9. Let them rise until they doble therir size and bake
10. Brush them with egg and add sesame seeds , if desired, also parmesan would be great ;) 
11. Bake at 360 F for 15 minutes

Whole wheat Bread with herbs

•  2 cups of whole wheat flour
• 1 cups of bread flour
• 0.5 oz of sugar
• 1/8 tsp of salt
• 1/3 cup of butter
• 1 oz of fresh yeast
• 2 tbs of fresh garlic(Sauté them with a little olive oil for more flavor)
• 1 cup of onion scallops
• 1/2 cup of chopped  parsley 
• 1 beaten egg

Directions

1. Weight ingredients
2. Make a well with dry ingredients (flour, salt )
3. In the center dissolve sugar,  and yeast. 
4. Mix well and slowly start adding flour.
5. When there's no liquid add the butter and knead for about 10 min.
6. Let the dough rise for 20 min
7. Make a sheet of the dough, by rolling it (Like a sugar cookie dough) 
8. Seal the sides of the sheet with egg
9. Add to half of the sheet the chopped herbs and roll them tightly 
10. Let them rise until they doble therir size and bake
11. Brush them with egg and add sesame seeds or flour , 
12. Bake at 360 F for 15 minutes

Cookies n' Cream Cupcakes

Well....my bOyfriend and I came back agaiin, and we had  our year and a half anniversary, so I decided tO make these fOr hiim (his favOriite chOcolate and cookies are oreas and hershey's cookies n'cream)

These turned out amazing I did a few variations of the buttercream but they are all amazing. 

Cookies n' Cream Cupcakes 

Cake: 

• 1 box of Betty Crocker French vanilla cake mix
• 3 eggs 
• 1/2 cup of melted butter
• 1 cup of water 
• 16 Oreo Cookies (I divided the cream side )

The perfect Cake mix, something I have learned from one of the queens, Tidy Mom

Directions:

1. Preheat Oven at 350 F
2. Line cupcakes tins with the side of the oreo with cream 
3. Prepare Cake mix according to package.
4. Add the tops of the oreos crushed
5. Fill cupcake tins 2/3 full
6. Bake at 350F  for 25 minutes. 
7. Let them cool in pan for 10 min.
8. Let them cool in a wire rack 

Buttercream: 

I made my usual buttercream, without corn syrup 

• 8 oz of butter
• 2 tbs of milk
• 1 tssp of vanilla
• 1 pound of confectioner's sugar

1. Beat butter, milk and vanilla on low speed until well blended. 
2. Add powdered sugar and beat on medium for about 3 minutes.
3. Divide Buttercream in 3 
4. Save one as the originalk recipe
5. Add crush oreos to the other
6. Add chocolate chips to the other. 
7. Frost the cupcakes and tyop with oreo cookies and chocolate. 

PB&J Cupcakes :D

I decided tO make this fOr a reunion with my study group , where one of a my dearest friends is a P&J lover sO this swas the best chOiice 




Honestly I started making them at 11:30 pm so I use a cake mix , but this time I took the tip from a blog I love Tidy Mom


Cake :

• 1 box of   Betty Crocker Supermoist Yellow Cake  
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup of butter melted
• 1 cup of water 
• 3/4 peanut pieces 

Directions:

1. Melt the butter in the microwave.
2. Then dump all ingredients in your bowl.
3. Mix on low for 1 min. Then mix on high for 1 min.
4. Fill cupcake papers 
5. Pop them in the oven on 350 for 20 minutes.
6. Let cool.
7. Pipe jelly into them 

Peanut Butter Frosting 

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
•  3 tbsp of milk 
• 2 cups powdered sugar

1. Beat butter and peanut butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer.
2. Gradually add powdered sugar
3. Add cream one tablespoon at a time until all of the sugar is mixed in and the frosting is thick.
4. Beat for at least 3 minutes until nice and fluff

 Assembly I fill the cupcakes by cutting with a cookie cutter in the center and piping the jelly, then cover again and frost. I topped it with a little jelly and a Teddy Graham cookie.