Lemon Bars

Lemon bars are easy to make, and they're so good! I got this recipe from allrecipe.com, the only variation I made was using 2/3 cups of lemon juice and 1 tb more flour). This recipe came out pretty easy and good; the only thing is i prefer it very tart so I will have to try again next time with more lemon juice or less sugar. :)

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 lemons, juiced

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DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, blend together softened butter, 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup sugar. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
3. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and golden. In another bowl, whisk together the remaining 1/12 cups sugar and 1/4 cup flour. Whisk in the eggs and lemon juice. Pour over the baked crust.
4. Bake for an additional 20 minutes in the preheated oven. The bars will firm up as they cool. For a festive tray, make another pan using limes instead of lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to give a very pale green. After both pans have cooled, cut into uniform 2 inch squares and arrange in a checker board fashion.

Boulangerie-Patisserie Book

My favorite bakery Boulangerie-Patisserie, has a book, you will bet i will be getting this book next! I love to look at the pictures even though the reviews says that some recipes might not work.

Strawberry Cake

Yellow Cake Ingredients:

1 3/4 plain cake flour
4 large eggs
1/2 cup of milk
2 teaspoon of vanilla
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks of butter

Filling ingredients:

strawberries
sugar to taste

Whipped Cream:
Use heavy cream and beat in the mixer until stiff foams form.

Step 1: Make 2 yellow cake by using 2 cake pans. Mix ingredients together and let it cool completely.
Step 2: Make filling. Slice strawberries and add sugar. Let cool in the fridge.
Step 3: Put cake together. Put yellow cake first, then 1 layer of whipped cream, and then a layer of strawberries. Then layer again with whipped cream. Repeat.
Step 4: Decorate. Apply whipped cream around cake, and decorate with fruits.

Preparing to bake a cake from scratch...

Since its hubby's bday i decided to bake a cake from scratch. After looking at some recipes, videos, books i decided to make a chocolate cake. Here are some tools I bought yesterday:




For decorating:

Baking Illustrated Book

This book was given to me on my bday last year and I find this to be an excellent book. This book is not for everyone because it lacks a lot of the colorful pictures that normally people would expect but this book (and all the books from cook's Illustrated) are written from a more technical and scientific approach. Not only it has the reputation of the Cooks Illustrated editors the recipes comes from what they call, "America's Test Kitchen" which is an actual kitchen,

America’s Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that is home to more than three dozen full-time cooks and product testers. Our mission is simple: to develop the absolute best recipes for all of your favorite foods. To do this, we test each recipe 30, 40, sometimes as many as 70 times, until we arrive at the combination of ingredients, technique, temperature, cooking time, and equipment that yields the best, most-foolproof recipe.

Our recipes, equipment ratings, taste test results, and kitchen tips are made available through our magazines, our Web sites, our television series; America’s Test Kitchen, and our cookbooks.


Pretty interesting! NO wonder the recipes I have tried are all pretty good!