Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Snow White Buns


Baked this snowy white buns for the first time. My daughter questioned me whether the bread have been thoroughly baked. Yes, it's cooked! :)

The buns were baked at 150 degree Celsius for 20 minutes. The outer layer formed a soft skin, while the interior is cottony soft. It's good to eat it plain with a cup of hot coffee :)

Recipe:
270g bread flour
30g rice flour
1/2 tsp instant dry yeast
25g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
200g water
30g unsalted butter, soften
Some bread flour for sprinkling 

1. Mix item 1 to 6 into a ball. Add the last 30g of water, a little at a time, to the dough. Mix using speed 1 of Bosch hand mixer MFQ4020 for 1 minute.

2. Add the softened butter to the dough using hands. The hand mixer will cause the butter to splatter.

3. When the butter has well incorporated to the dough, return the dough to the mixing bowl. Knead the dough using the mixer set at speed 5 for about 3 minutes.

4. Proof the dough in a greased bowl. Spray the dough with light mist, cover with a lid and allow it to proof for 1 hour.

5. Transfer the dough to a work top sprinkle with a thin layer of flour. Punch down the dough to release the air.

6. Divide the dough into 10 equal portions. Shape into a ball and place in a baking sheet.

7. Spray a thin mist of water over the dough and send the dough on a baking sheet into the oven to do the final proofing. Turn on the oven at 50 degree Celsius for 1 minute. Proof for 1 hour.

8. At the end of proofing, remove the dough from the oven. Preheat the oven to 150 degree Celsius for 10 minutes. While waiting, sprinkle some bread flour over the buns. Bake the buns for about 20 minutes.

9. Allow the buns to cool down before serving. Enjoy :)

Monday, 10 June 2013

Rice Cooker Butter Sponge Cake


This is the first cake I baked after buying the Bosch electric hand mixer MBQ4020. The cake texture is really very fine and velvety.

I love using rice cooker to bake cake. The conceal space helps to lower moisture loss during baking. And the fine temperature control prevent the cake from getting burnt. The result is a cake with golden crust and moist centre :)



Sunday, 9 June 2013

My New Bosch MFQ4020 450W Hand Mixer

Bought this powerful hand mixer from Courts Mega Store on 9 June 2013.
It costs me S$79.

The special shape of the whisk is designed to produce finer and creamier mixing result within a relatively short duration 😋





Day 10 June 2013

Yes, it did produced a finer cake texture for my rice cooker butter sponge cake.


Yeah, a good buy, so far. I'm yet to test it on kneading bread dough :)

Day 11 June 2013

Amazing! I only need 3 minutes to knead a 300g bread flour dough to produce gluten. It would have taken me at least 20 minutes to knead the same amount of dough by hand. 


My final product - black sugar buns baked using a rice cooker was so fluffy ~

Another bread kneaded using the Bosch mixer

Good bye to those sweaty moments I had while kneading bread dough :)

Day 19 July 2013
I baked the cranberry milk crumb buns today. The initial bread dough kneading was made easier by the assistance of MFQ4020. 
I've even edited a video showing the kneading process to be shared on YouTube :)


The video at YouTube:
http://youtu.be/RB68tUYaZHI