All about Cakes & Cookies Baking

[MUMMYOF3]

Sure.. recipe as follows. Enjoy baking


Ingredients
200gms Hard Butter (salted or unsalted)
100gms Sugar (Fine or Castor)
1 egg
400gms Plain Flour (pour only 350gms to the mixer, keep 50gms for later use)
50gms Roasted Almond Powder (Optional-This is to improve the pastry fragrance)

Method For Tart Pastry
Cut the butter into small pcs and mix the sugar in the mixer with slow speed.
After the sugar and butter mix well, then turn to medium speed to mix until fluffy (very light cream white colour).
Turn to slow speed, add in the egg.
Add in the plain flour and almond power slowly and mix well until form a dough.
Remove the dough from the mixer and knead well. If it is too soft, slowly add some flour (from the remaining 50gms) and knead well.
Preheat the oven 160 deg
Shape the dough into tart moulds.
Bake until golden brown (160 deg for 15 to 20 mins)

Method for the Topping the Tart
Mix well 100gms Custard powder with 500ml water.
Boil #1 with 150gms sugar, stir until turn thick.
Top up the custard filling on the Tarts, follow by fruits (Peach, Longan, Kiwi, Pineapple, Assorted Berries etc)
Boil together ½ tbsp agar-agar powder, 150ml water and 50gms sugar for the glazing. Or melt 100g apricot gel in 80ml water.
Put in Fridge to keep cold.

Special Remarks:

*You can pre-bake the tart pastry one day earlier and keep in fridge.

[Augmum]

EatNonStop:

Carebear cake for my friend's daughter....not good in doing the frosting...a long way for me to master it..

Its a oreo chocolate cake.

http://postimage.org/image/2p5p8rfhg/

Nice cake :love:
ya, it need some experience in doing the frosting,
i tried it b4, tough job to make the top and side \"smooth\"
so \"mafan\", that's y fr then onwards, only made cakes w/o frosting.

[Augmum]

EatNonStop:

Mmmm...you may want to try this...as it uses \"raw\" egg, thus didnot try.

thanks eatnonstop,
hmm....raw eggs??but i am not comfortable with raw egg, anyway, thks for it.

[Augmum]

qms:

ANobleNerd:

The tinypic url leads to a very small pic.

Hence, the name \"tinypic\", right?

the tinypic image can be resized,
remember Funz pic of the \"HUGE CRAB\"...... :lol:
so better do a preview when using tinypic.com

[Augmum]

MUMMYOF3:

My first attempt of making fruit tarts.


http://postimage.org/image/1kmhq6itg/

yummy yummy :drool:
so u cooked the custard first and fill them up , i see....

i had juz baked one similar to yrs, (also my 1 st attempt)
but i poured the watery custard into the pie tart to bake.
but i dun like this way of doing,
becos it almost burnt my hands when i brought the tray back to the oven. (as i was taking care not to spill the watery egg cuatard)

[Funz]

Augmum:

the tinypic image can be resized,

remember Funz pic of the \"HUGE CRAB\"...... :lol:
so better do a preview when using tinypic.com

Yup, when uploading your pics to tinypic you can choose the resolution that you want to upload.

[Augmum]

Funz:

Yup, when uploading your pics to tinypic you can choose the resolution that you want to upload.

my first attempt using tiny.pic, i had the same experience as yr \"Huge Crab\",
when i did a preview, i got a shock :!:

[BlurBee]

MUMMYOF3:

Sure.. recipe as follows. Enjoy baking

:thankyou:

[ANobleNerd]

EatNonStop:

Carebear cake for my friend's daughter....not good in doing the frosting...a long way for me to master it..

Its a oreo chocolate cake.



http://postimage.org/image/2p5p8rfhg/

One way to deal with frosting a round cake - or for any cake for that matter - is to get a turntable/lazy Susan. I bought a lazy Susan from IKEA which serves my needs pefectly.

I bought it a few years ago when I began my baking journey for about $20, but it's now only $9.90:
http://www.ikea.com/sg/en/catalog/products/40176460

The lazy Susan helps a lot to smooth out the top of the cake. Spin it while holding the spatula to smooth the top out. Likewise for the sides. I even bought those triangle shapes with teeth to make lines on the sides of my cake like this:
http://www.thebakerskitchen.net/images/products/thumb/fatdaddiostriangle.jpg\">

[tisha]

ANobleNerd:

One way to deal with frosting a round cake - or for any cake for that matter - is to get a turntable/lazy Susan. I bought a lazy Susan from IKEA which serves my needs pefectly...

Do you know where we can buy a glass lazy susan and how much it will cost?
I saw an ad of a refrigerator on TV recently which showed, like it had glass lazy suzan inside the fridge. I don't want to replace my fridge, just install a glass LS in it.