White & Dark Chocolate Fingers

White and Dark Chocolate Fingers

Ingredients

• 170g Plain Flour
• 80g Butter (Room temp or softened)
• 50g Icing Sugar
• 20g Caster Sugar
• 15g Cocoa Powder
• 1 Egg
• 30g White chocolate melts

Method

1. Cream butter and sugars.
2. Add egg, cocoa powder and mix well.
3. Next add plain flour and mix about 2 min. (If the mix is too dry add several drops of milk to smoothen it. If not will be hard to pipe. Every thing depends on the size of the egg yolk)
4. Put that in to a piping bag and bake on 170c about 10-15 min.
5. Cool on a wire rack.
6. Melt the chocolate and dip the cookies in.
7. Let them harden on a baking sheet.
8. Enjoy with a coffee.

Vanilla Rolls

Vanilla Bread Rolls (Simple Baking)

Ingredients

• 380g Bread flour
• 20g Sugar
• 2 Vanilla pods
• 1 Tblsp vanilla
• Pinch of salt
• 7g Instant dry yeast
• 25g Butter
• 2 Eggs
• 100ml water or milk

Method

1. Add flour yeast, sugar, vanilla, eggs and butter and mix well.
2. Add water little by little until it makes a smooth dough.
3. Put the prepared dough in a greased bowl and leave in a warm place until double in size.
4. Next put flour on to the bench and punch the dough.
5. Add more flour and knead on the bench until the dough is not sticky.
6. Cut the dough in to equal size pieces.
7. Roll as shown in the video and leave to prove again.
8. When ready brush the tops with eggs and bake on 180c about 20-30 min or until golden brown on top.
9. Enjoy with a savoury or a sweet filling.

Twisted Coconut Bread Sticks

Twisted Coconut Bread Sticks

Ingredients

• 375g Bread flour
• 60g Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 4g Salt
• 6g Yeast
• 50g Butter
• 125 ml Warm milk

Coconut filling

• 100g Desiccated coconut
• 40ml Milk
• 60g Icing sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 40g Melted Butter

Method

1. Add melted butter , Icing sugar, milk and eggs and coconut. Mix well and leave aside.
2.  Knead flour,yeast, sugar,butter,salt,egg,and milk together.
3. Knead for 20 min.
4. When the dough is ready leave in a warm place to double in size.
5. After, Roll the dough in to a rectangular shape and spread coconut evenly on 3/4 of the dough.
6. Fold as directed in video and cut in to strips.
7. Twist the strips and leave to double in size.
8. Brush the tops with eggs and bake 20 min on 180c.
9. Cool on a wire rack .

Condensed Milk Cookies

Condensed Milk Cookies 

Ingredients

• 100g Butter
• 40g Sugar
• 275g Plain Flour
• 110g Condensed Milk

Method

1. Add the butter and condensed milk in to the mixing bowl and mix well.
2. Add Sugar and flour and mix well.
3. If dry add more condensed milk.
4. Put the dough on to the bench and roll to a thickness of your choice.
5. Cut the dough to a desired shape.
6. Bake on 180 about 10 min.
7. Cool on a wire rack and store in an air tight container.

Strawberry Muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups of self raising flour 
• 1 cup strawberries 
• 1 tsp vanilla 
• 1/2 tsp bi-carb baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt 
• 120ml of milk 
• 125g caster sugar
• 120g butter
• 1 egg

Method:

•  Preheat the oven to 180 degress. Add the butter, sugar and cream this on a medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the salt, egg and the vanilla  and mix this for another minute. Add the flour, baking powder, then mix this for about another 3 minutes.  Then slowly add the milk and mix until smooth and combined.
• Add half of the strawberries into the mixture and fold it in, leaving the rest to decorate. Prepare a muffin pan of 12 with cupcake liners inside, fill the each cup with about 1 1/2 tbs of the mixture and then decorate the tops with strawberries.  
• Place it in the oven for 15-20mins. Then let the muffins to cool down. 

Sweet Coiled Bread

Sri Lankan Sweet Bread (Method)

Ingredients

• 600g Bread flour
• 300ml Warm water
• 100g Sugar
• 8g Salt
• 70g Butter
• 1/2 tsp Bread improver
• 9g instant dry yeast
• Jam or honey for the glaze

Method

1. Add the bread flour , bread improver, yeast,salt ,sugar and mix well. after add water little by little and knead 10 min.
2. Next add butter and knead another 20 min.
3. When the dough is ready put the dough in to a greased bowl and leave in a warm place to double in size.
4. Next cut the dough in to two.
5. Roll the dough to a log  and roll like a coil.
6. Leave to double in size.
7. Next egg wash and bake 20 min on 180c.
8. Take out and glaze the bread and bake another 10 min.
9. Cool on wire rack.

Apple Cake (Simple Baking)

Apple Cake (Simple Baking)

Ingredients

• 250g Plain flour
• 1Tsp Bicarb (Baking Soda)
• 2 Tblsp Honey
• 1 Lemon
• 600g Apples
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 Egg
• 30 ml olive oil
• 125g Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla

Method

• Add all the ingredients except lemon and apples. Mix well. It will look crumbly.
• Next add lemon juice and apples. Mix well.
• Grease 22cm cake pan. Put the mix in. Bake on 175c about an hour or until a skewer comes out clean.
• Cool on wire rack.
• Serve with cream and ice cream.