Natural yeast bread

I follow My Mind Patch: GrowingNatural Yeast (using grapes) to bake this lovely loaf of bread.

Yeast Ingredients

• Natural Yeast
• Ingredients
• 15g natural yeast
• 60g water
• 60g unbleached bread flour 

Directions

1. Pour all the 3 ingredients and mix well in a sterilized and dry glass container.
2. Stand overnight, or till the content double in volume (About 3 to 8 hours depending on the yeast strength)
3. The next morning, in order to "wake up" the yeast, added a small amount of water and flour to activate it.
4. Added 10g water + 10g flour, and waited 1 hour for the volume to double.

Collect 110g natural yeast for later use.

Bread dough Ingredients 

• 250g bread flour
• 50g fine wholemeal flour
• 24g full cream milk powder
• 28g raw sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp instant dry yeast
• 30g unsalted butter, softened
• 28g beaten egg
• 110g natural yeast
• 182g water 

*Can add 1 tsp matcha powder to change flavor and also add colour to the bread. I tried adding red bean paste also.

Directions

1. Pour all the ingredients into bread maker (except butter)
2. Use dough/pasta function to mix the ingredients
3. Once all mix, add butter
4. Use the bread dough function to continue the mixing and proofing (this will take about 1hr 45mins.
5. After the bread maker has finish the proofing part, I will shape the dough and place into the baking tin and wait for final proofing till it fill 80-90% of the tin
6. Spray some water over the dough and bake it in the oven for 45mins (180 degree c)

Bak Kwa Cookies

I still have Bak Kwa leftover from CNY!! So this is a great way to use all of them up. Recipe from Victoria Bakes. Many of my friends thought that the Bak Kwa was raisin lol 

Ingredients

• 125g Butter, soften
• 35g Icing sugar
• 40g small Egg
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 200g Plain flour
• 65g Bak Kwa, diced into small pieces

Directions

1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy
2. Add the egg and beat till well incorporated
3. Add Vanilla and mix
4. Add the flour and bak kwa, and mix thoroughly
5. Put the dough in a plastic bag, roll it out evenly
6. Refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes until firm
7. Use a dessert spoon to scrape dough into small sizes, and shape it accordingly
8. Place it on a baking tray, spacing out evenly
9. Bake at 180C for 16-18 minutes, or until it turned slightly brown

70s elusive cornflake cookies

I have a box of corn flakes and a bag of cashews that I want to use up. Found VictoriaBakes's cornflake cookies, seems not bad so I try it out today. Its an easy bake with minimum wash up! It taste very good, not sure its its the coconut oil. (Its my 1st time baking with coconut oil)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil (i used organic coconut oil)
• 4/3 cup brown sugar 
• 1/2 egg
• 1/2 cup crushed corn flakes
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (i used Cashews)
• 1/2 cup quick-cooking oatmeal
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1/2 tbsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 140 degrees
2. Cream butter, sugars, vanilla and egg
3. Add oil
4. Mix in dry ingredients
5. Form dough into walnut sized balls
6. Place on cookie sheet and flatten
7. Bake for 26 mins (for crunchy cookies)
8. Cool on pan for a minute or two then transfer to a rack to cool

Blueberry muffins (or any flavours you prefer)

This is a really versatile recipe from Victoria Bakes

Recipe (makes 8 muffins）

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 cup fresh blueberries
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (sprinkle onto muffin top before baking)

Additional advice that I will try next time: Add vanilla extract, and use buttermilk

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 240 degrees C.  Grease muffin tray or line with muffin liners
2. Combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder
3. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture and fold in blueberries
4. Fill muffin cups liner right to the top. sprinkle brown sugar onto muffin before baking
5. Once muffins are in the oven, turn oven temperature down to 220 degrees C and bake for 10 mins, then turn the temperature down to 200 degrees to complete the rest of the baking time (10-15min)

I try using nutella, bananas, choco and nuts. All turn out very nice ^^