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Lazy Cream Horn, Super Practical Pastry

by CookingMasters April 16, 2021

written by CookingMasters

Cream Horn—cookies that are shaped like a horn and filled with various rich creams have contrasting characteristics and delicious flavors, but in this article, I will make the lazy cream horn. This recipe does not make you lazy to try. This threaded horn-shaped cake is said to have originated from Dutch pastry. When bitten, the texture is crispy with a creamy, sweet and rich flavor. ‘Skin’ cream horn is made of puff pastry or bladerdeeg. Frozen puff pastry is left at room temperature, then cut into strips.

The pastry is then wrapped in a cone-shaped cream horn or horn. The pastry surface is smeared with beaten eggs before baking until golden brown. As preparation for cooking cream horn, the ingredients are quite easily found in supermarkets near your home. The cooking time is quite short, if you already have instant horn supplies, you only need time to make the filling.

Lazy cream horn

In accordance with the title above, this time I will share the lazy cream horn recipe, cream horns recipe which is super practical. Why is it practical? Because it so makes you’re lazy! Hehehe, it uses instant pastry skin. I like this type of food very much. Maybe someone doesn’t know what the pastry is? In simplicity, we can say that is, skin dough which when baked can be layered, crispy, and tasty.

If you have ever eaten snacks branded Kenji, they are made from pastry. Being able to make my own pastry skin is my dream, but it seems like it’s still a long time to make it happen because I’m having trouble finding one of the ingredients called pastry butter in the area where I live, even though I’ve been looking for it at my favorite pastry shop.

What I Love Most About This Recipe

Food to accompany at leisure
Can be friends with cold or hot drinks

For portions of 3-5 people or one family to make a pastry skin mixture does require special butter because butter is what will make the pastry skin can be layered, savory, and slightly oily. In addition, to make it yourself also requires patience, skill, and accuracy because if the results are wrong it will end up being defective. That is a little reason that makes my enthusiasm and desire to recede to make my own pastry skin.

Since yesterday I really want to eat cream horn—lazy cream horn, then the practical solution is to buy instant puff pastry. Puff pastry usually varies only in shape and content. Because the taste is salty, so for pastry, it is usually combined with something sweet. For this reason, on this occasion, I will make these ones of favorite dessert with a slightly runny filling, so that the horn cannot stay in a flat position because the filling must come out, that’s why the results can be stored in a glass container. Friends who want to make it possible to reduce the liquid dose, of course, depending on our taste.

Lazy cream horn

How to Make a Lazy Cream Horn

First, make horn pastry, we need a cone-shaped mold. If you don’t have one, you can make it yourself from cardboard (Formed with a pattern to make a cone) then wrap it with aluminum foil and then form a cone. Complicated? If you feel that way, just buy the mold at your favorite cake shop.

The horn pastry that we will make is in the mini form because it only uses one fold of puff pastry mixture (instant puff pastry containing only one sheet folded into four) which when printed is only half (less) than the shape of the mold. So if you want horn pastry with a rather large size, then use two folds (for the puff pastry mixture in half). But in my opinion, this size is quite right, because it uses instant puff pastry, so here I just write the recipe and the manufacturing process, and also how to print the puff pastry mixture in my own language, hopefully, it’s understandable.

Lazy Cream Horn

Cream Horn is a pastry made by puff pastry, and whipped cream. (An alternative version, the meringue horn, is made with meringue.)

Materials (outside)

¼ instant puff pastry section
1 yellow egg to be applied to the skin
Adequate refined sugar for sowing

Materials (inside or filling)

1/2 can of sweetened condensed milk
600 ml of water
6 tablespoons of sugar (or according to taste)
35 grams of cornstarch
35 grams of flour
½ spoonful of vanilla powder (can be there, you can not)
2 egg yolks
¼ tablespoons of salt
1 tablespoon of butter

Make Filling Dough

Mix all ingredients except the butter, then strain and cook while stirring constantly.
When it starts thickening and you want to boil, stir it around at high speed with a wooden spoon so the mixture remains slippery. When the filling boils bursting, turn off the heat.
Put the butter, stir until melted and mix well with the mixture.
Pour in the container and cover with cling wrap.
It is best if the size of the container matches the number of fillings so that there is no space between filling and cling wrap, so as not to form a layer above it. Cool it down.

Make Horn Skin

Brush the outer surface of the mold horn with margarine, set aside.
Cut instant puff pastry with a width of approximately one finger segment or about 1.5 cm (sprinkle flour if it feels wet),
Wrap the puff pastry mixture that has been cut into the mold with the direction upward, and make sure the bottom doesn't leak so the filling won't come out later.
Arrange on a baking sheet, brush the top with egg yolk and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or until cooked.
Remove from the oven and remove it from the mold, let it cool.

The section above adjusts, if you don’t have instant horn.

Snack

American

lazy cream horn

Completion or Final Step

Place the mixture to fill it into a plastic triangle, give a hole at the end. Spray the mixture into the pastry skin until it is full, give it an appropriate decoration. It’s easy isn’t it to make lazy cream horn? Exactly, so don’t try to lazy.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 3 – 5 cream horn (171g)

Amount Per Serving

Calories 759 Calories from Fat 483

% Daily Value

Total Fat 54g 83%
Saturated Fat 18.6g 93%
Trans Fat 0gI
Cholesterol 21.9mg 7%
Sodium 312mg 13%
Potassium 99mg 3%
Total Carbohydrate 63g 21%
Dietary Fiber 1.4g 6%
Sugars 20.7g
Protein 8.7g
Vitamin A 6%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 3%
Iron 15%

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

April 16, 2021 0 comment

Dessert Snack Foods

Homemade Easy and Delicious Pizza Stromboli

by CookingMasters August 25, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Ah, Delicious Pizza Easy Stromboli! Maybe you often hear this meal. Yup, this delicious meal come from Italy which makes anyone who hears it become interested to try it. And today, I will give you a recipe, especially for those of you who are interested in the culinary. And of course, this recipe is very easy and you can make it by yourself in your home.

In this version, I will use pepperoni, sausage, olive oil, chicken meat, and cheese. But, don’t be confused. You can use almost anything you want like onions, peppers, mushrooms, etc. However, keep in mind that when you add a lot of ingredients to your Stromboli, the longer time you need to cook. However, all you have to do is make your easy stromboli based on your interest. You just need 1 hour and 15 minutes for making it.

Easy Stromboli

What I love most about this recipe are;

The taste of Pizza Stromboli is delicious
I don’t need a lot of time to make my own Stromboli
It’s cheaper than I bought it directly

Easy stromboli

How to Make a Homemade Easy and Delicious Pizza Stromboli

To make your own easy stromboli is very easy. You just need to prepare the ingredients such as sausages, salami, pepperoni, chicken meat, etc. However, you do not need to be confused to prepare those ingredients because those ingredients you need are very easy to find. Let’s try it!

Pizza Stromboli

Skin Dough

1 cup (240 ml) of warm water
2 1/4 teaspoon (12 g) of active dry yeast
1 tablespoon (15 g) of honey or sugar
2 teaspoons (10 g) of salt
2 tablespoons (30 g) of olive oil
375 g bread flour

Stromboli Pizza

2 teaspoons (10 g) of olive oil
1 can (311 g) of peeled tomatoes intact
1/2 teaspoons of oregano
228 g of freshly sliced mozzarella cheese
sausage
salami
pepperoni
chicken meat
etc. (optional)
1 egg
1 tbsp (15 g) parsley

Making Stromboli Dough

Prepare a large bowl and add honey to warm water and stir. You can use a mixer to make it easy. Let the mixture mix for 10 minutes until the mixture begins to foam.
Add salt, olive oil, and flour. Mix the ingredients and after the flour is fully mixed, add the leftover flour gradually until you get the Stromboli mixture with the texture that you want.
Apply for 5-8 minutes. Turn on the timer and set the timer for 5-8 minutes. Once the mixture is perfect, you can try to shape it.
Mix the Stromboli with a little oil. Cover the mixture with plastic wrap and place it on the table. After that, let it expand for 1 hour.

Making Stromboli Pizza

First of all, to make easy stromboli, you have to heat the oven to 232 degrees Celsius.
Remove the dough from your refrigerator and place it in a medium-sized bowl. If it is close to 2 hours, check whether the mixture has expanded enough or not. If it has not expanded, added about 15 minutes to wait it expand.
Add the mixture with olive oil. Wrap the mixture back in plastic wrap and leave it at room temperature for 15 minutes. It will make the dough a little easier to handle after it is a bit cold.
In a small skillet over medium heat, mix canned tomatoes and liquid. Add oregano, salt and bring to a boil to make a good Stromboli. Stir occasionally to mix spices so that the spices can be evenly mixed.
Turn down the heat. Add the tomato sauce with a spatula or a wooden spoon until you feel that the sauce becomes thick. It will take around 10 up to 15 minutes.
Form the dough into a roundabout with a diameter of 30-35 cm or as you wish and place it on a baking sheet. Cover with sauce and add cheese and meat-based on your choice. You can use sausages, salami, pepperoni, and chicken meat. However, you may choose it if you don't like one or more ingredients.
Break the egg into a separate bowl, shake it and apply it to the dough to give it a golden color.
After that, roll or fold the dough. Bake the Stromboli until golden brown or crispy, about 20 to 25 minutes.
Change the strings to the cutting board and sprinkle with basil leaves. Slice the Pizza Stromboli bread into spheres and distribute it to each plate.
Your homemade easy stromboli is ready to be enjoyed.

Making Stromboli Dough

The dough must be a little sticky

Making Stromboli Pizza

Fill your Stromboli based on the ingredients you like.
Don’t directly throw away your egg. You will need it again to smear the top.

Nutrition Facts

Carbs 81 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugar 0 g
Fat 46 g
Saturated 17 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g
Monounsaturated 0 g
Trans 0 g
Protein 38 g
Sodium 720 mg

Good luck!

August 25, 2019 0 comment

Dessert Healthy Snack Foods

Baked Chicken Chimichangas Recipe

by CookingMasters August 25, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Baked Chicken Chimichangas! Actually, a chimichanga can also be called a deep-fried burrito. Therefore, some people might call the baked version as the baked burrito. Chimichangas are most people’s favorite when they talk about Mexican meals. If you ask some kids what to order in a restaurant, they will certainly want chimichanga.

Baked Chicken Chimichangas Recipe

A regular chimichanga is usually dripping oils. This is why I really wish to have chicken chimichangas that had the same taste and plenty of crisps but no too much fat or oil. Baked Chicken Chimichangas is a healthy version of the classic chimichangas recipe that used to be fried. This is exactly what I want. Keep reading to learn how to cook baked chimichangas.

Baked Chicken Chimichangas

Preparing Chicken

On this recipe, you will need to use a ready to eat chicken. It is really handy if you already have some leftover of chicken. But some people may need more information on how to process the chicken on this recipe. Actually, you can simply boil it before using it on your chimichangas.

In order to prepare the 2 cups of boiled chicken, you can follow these following steps.

Take 4 cups of water in a 2-quart pan and boil it on medium heat.
Prepare for about ¾ pound of boneless chicken, you can use the thighs or breasts as you desire. Cut it all to be cubes.
If the water starts boiling, put the chicken in.
Cook the chicken for roughly 5 minutes or until you notice it has been cooked through.
Drain and wait until it is cold before chopping or shredding it.

Baked Chicken Chimichangas

Filling Ingredients

2 cups boiled chicken, you can chop or shred it as you prefer
1 cup or 4 ounces of grated cheddar cheese
1 cup of your preferred salsa
½ teaspoon dry oregano leaves, don’t forget to crush it
¼ cup chopped green onions, it usually needs 2 rods
1 teaspoon powdered cumin

Wrapping Ingredients

6 pieces of 8-inch tortilla
2 tablespoon melt butter

Topping Ingredients

Sour cream
Diced tomato
Guacamole
Grated cheddar cheese
Salsa

First off, you can start by preheating your oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix all the filling ingredients. You can start by mixing salsa, oregano, and cumin first. After stirring the mixture some times, you can add the chopped chicken, cheese, and green onions. Stir all filling ingredients until it is combined well.
Prepare tortillas and place just about 1/3 cup of the filling mixture at the center spot on a tortilla. Then repeat arranging the filling on the left tortillas.
Start folding each side of a tortilla toward the filling mixture. Roll it from the bottom side and place it on a baking sheet with the seam side faces down. Do the same for the rest.
Brush all tortillas with butter that you have melted beforehand.
Put the baking sheet in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
You need to wait approximately for 25 minutes. If you notice it becomes golden brown or crispy enough. You can take it out.
Serve with salsa on its side and garnish with your favorite toppings.

Nutritional Facts per Serving

Total Calories: 350
Total Fat: 26%
Saturated Fat: 38%
Sodium: 34%
Cholesterol: 21%
Total Carbohydrate: 9%
Protein: 42%
Calcium: 24%
Vitamin A: 11%
Vitamin C: 4%
Iron: 15%

Baked Chicken Chimichangas vs Fried Chimichangas

Baking chimichangas is really a wise option because it is much healthier. Since there are no vegetable oils in used, you are able to keep your heart healthy. Moreover, you eat fewer calories.

It is no doubt that frying tortillas will give you crunchy and flaky textures, but baking can also make it tasty. You only need to brush the chicken chimichangas with some melted butter and then, bake it at high temperature. You will find it crispy and nice with only a half calories compared to the fried ones.

Frozen Chicken Chimichangas

Surely yes. You can make these chicken chimichangas and store it at your freezer. The next day, you can directly bake it and enjoy the tasty baked chicken Chimichangas.

It is the time for you to alter from traditional chimichangas to a simpler and healthier recipe of baked chicken Chimichangas. The recipe above has been made as simple and easy as possible. The baked variation is way better since you don’t have to sacrifice any flavor yet it is fewer calories.

Make a lot of them when some friends come to your home over. Everyone would definitely love it. It hits every time. You can eat these with any toppings you like. Adding sour cream on top of it will raise its taste on another level. Or you can always crush some of them plain. It is still delicious.

August 25, 2019 0 comment

Dessert Snack Foods

Homemade Mexican Chalupas

by CookingMasters August 25, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Homemade Mexican Chalupas! Most of the Mexican foods are super yummy, that you want to have a try on cooking them at home. Sadly, you just don’t have the time. Don’t worry. Here I give you the simplest recipe on Mexican food you could try with minimum effort. Yes, Chalupa. Chalupa is basically just a fried-dough and everybody could make it. Overall, you only need a few ingredients, make the dough, put fillings and serve it.

Homemade Mexican chalupas

How to make homemade Mexican Chalupa

Once you have the ingredients, all you need to do is just mix them all and you’ll have the most of your chalupas ready to be fried. The next thing to do is to make a filling for the fried dough. You can choose whatever fillings. Finally, fried the chalupas that you’ve put the filling inside, and wait for a moment until it’s perfectly fried. I’m not saying all of your chalupas might turn out being golden and crispy. But, hey! Some of them will turn out well and you’ll have people liking your chalupa photos once you post them on Instagram.

What are the ingredients for homemade Mexican Chalupa?

Don’t bother going to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for making your own Mexican chalupa’s dough, because you’ll probably find them in the fridge. If not so, you might still need to buy a few of them, but of course, after making sure that the house next door doesn’t have them either. Here is the list of the ingredients you need to prepare:

Dough: flour, milk, salt, shortening, baking powder.
Filling: ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, taco sauce, sour cream, canola oil, sharp cheddar cheese.

Besides ground beef, you can pick other fillings that might suit your taste. There are various filling you can put, like shredded lettuce and scattered cilantro. If there are some leftover shrimps, chicken or pork, you can definitely use them. Just experiment with what filling that works well with you, because basically you can have anything you like and they’ll go perfectly well with the fried dough.

Homemade Mexican Chalupas

Step-by-step overview for homemade Mexican Chalupa

The very first step that you want to do is making the dough. It is so simple, because you just need to mix everything and deep fried them, as listed below:

Mix all of the dough ingredients.
Shape it like a ball.
Fried the dough and wait until they’re perfectly cooked.

Now you’ve got the shell and the next thing you need is to make the fillings. You don’t have to choose one filling, though. You can make various kinds of filling.

Cook whatever filling you’ve picked: beef, lettuce, tomatoes.
Add a generous amount of taco sauce or any sauce you like.

That’s it! Yes, it is that simple. You can read the more detailed instruction below, including the time allocation for preparing and cooking the dish, along with the nutrition facts you might want to check.

Homemade Mexican Chalupas Recipe

This Mexican food will be your simplest homemade meal ever! Just use whatever’s in the fridge and make your most delicious chalupas with your most favorite fillings.

214 cup of flour
12 tablespoon of salt
1 cup of milk
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 oz of shortening
Canola oil, used for frying
1 lb of cooked ground beef
Lettuce
Diced tomatoes
Sour cream
Sharp cheddar cheese
Taco sauce

Heat the oil in a heavy medium skillet.
Add the flour, salt, baking powder and shortening in a mixing bowl. Mix all of the ingredients. Slowly pour the milk into the dough. While pouring it, mix them all together with a spoon to make the dough into balls.
Turn the dough to a surface that is floured and roll it repeatedly until it turns smooth.
Mold the dough and make it into a loaf, divide the molded dough in half and then turn into fourths.
Roll each individual part of the dough into a shape of a ball and roll the small one, make it into a circle.
Dip half of the dough into the oil. Dip slowly and flip it into the other half before it turns brown. This is to make sure that the filling is deep-fried. But if it’s not a problem, you can just dip them all together on both sides. Wait for approximately two minutes. Once it turns into golden brown, remove the fried dough from the oil.
The last step is to fill the chalupas with tomatoes, lettuce, beef, cheese, and sour cream. Add taco sauce if necessary.

Nutrition facts

August 25, 2019 0 comment

Healthy Snack Foods

Go Healthy with Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips

by CookingMasters August 24, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips! Chips are fun snacks that everybody loves. Whether for a party or just me-time, chips are always good company. But the one you bought from the store might be unhealthy. The sodium content on the store-bought chips is surprisingly excessive. It would increase the blood pressure and risk your heart disease. Oil from the chips is also typically very high. Unconsciously eating over the standard serving might lead you into obesity. To make things worse, most of the fat is saturated, adding the risk of heart disease.

Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips

So, enough unhealthy chips and go with dill pickle zucchini chips instead. It’s high in antioxidants which help to slow down aging and repairing damaged cells. Pickling process adds this healthy chips with probiotics that improve your digestive and immune system. Zucchini is also rich in vitamin A and C. Vitamin A reduces the risk of certain cancers, slows aging, and preserves eyesight, while vitamin C boosts the immune system and body endurance.

Can’t wait to make it?

Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips

How to Make Dill Pickled Zucchini Chips

To make dill pickled zucchini chips is very easy, it won’t cost you a sweat. First, prepare all the ingredients. They are zucchini, dill, white vinegar, olive oil and salt. These ingredients are available on most supermarket. Cutting zucchini is not hard, but for easy and precise cut just use mandolin instead of a knife. Then put the sliced zucchini on a bowl and toss the rest of the ingredients. Make sure to mix it even and thoroughly.

Don’t be afraid to do a little massage so the dill is well absorbed into the zucchini. Let it rest. Put the parchment paper on the tray. Preheat the oven into 200 F. While waiting the temperature rises, arrange the sliced zucchini on the tray. Bake for two or two and a half our, until the chips are crispy. Then, let it cool down, and finally the chips are ready to be served on a bowl. Dill pickle zucchini chips are ready to be enjoyed with friends.

Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips

What are the Ingredients for Dill Pickled Zucchini Chips?

Zucchini is the Main ingredient of dill pickle zucchini chips. Also called Summer Squash or Courgette, this plant is originated from Mesoamerican. Generally, it has a green color, but there are other variants like golden and striped zucchini. This vegetable tastes bland with little sweet trail.

Take some consideration when buying zucchini! Small zucchini tends to be drier, firmer, and tastier. While large zucchini tends to be watery, pulpy, and tasteless. Usually, vibrant color is an indication of healthy and nutritious zucchini. If you plan to store it for a while before you cook, pick the one that has stems, because it will last longer.

Dill is trivial in this recipe. This herb grows widely in Eurasia. Many traditional foods had used its leaves and seeds as a spice to flavor various foods entire the world. It adds fresh sensation to the food. The citrus-like flavor makes this herb is a staple for many recipes. You can use either dried or fresh dill for the recipe. Dried dill is stronger than fresh dill, because the moisture has been drawn out and the flavor is condensed into small mass. The overall flavor of fresh and dried dill is not different.

Vinegar is also important to make the flavor permeates into the bland zucchini. In this recipe, white vinegar is preferred, because it doesn’t bring particular taste, like apple vinegar does. But if you like, experimenting with other vinegar might yield in unique flavor.

Do not forget the olive oil. Olive oil prevents the hips from burning. Another kind of vegetable oil could be used in this recipe, like palm oil, or coconut oil. But so far, the olive oil creates the best and pleasant aroma for dill pickle zucchini chips.

Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips Recipes

Zucchini is the Main ingredient of dill pickle zucchini chips. Also called Summer Squash or Courgette, this plant is originated from Mesoamerican.

4-6 small zucchini or 2 medium zucchinis
2 tbsp fresh dill / 1 tbsp dried dill
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
1/3 tbsp garlic powder
A pinch of Salt

Thinly slice the zucchinis into 1/8 inches. For more precise and faster slicing, use a mandolin.
In a bowl, put the sliced zucchinis in, and whisk all the dill, white vinegar, olive oil, garlic powder, and salt until it is evenly coated. Let it rest.
Preheat the oven into 200 F.
Put a parchment paper on a tray, and arrange the zucchinis evenly.
Bake for two or two and a half hours, until the zucchini is crispy.
Let it cool, and serve it in a bowl.

Dill pickle zucchini chips are ready to be enjoyed with friends.

Nutrition Facts

August 24, 2019 0 comment

Dessert Snack Foods

Quick, Easy Made Nutella Thumbprint Cookies

by CookingMasters August 24, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Can you resist Nutella in any kinds of its form; within your morning sandwich, on top of your brownies, or as a secret ingredient in your favorite drinks? It is a big NO. What about having it in classic thumbprint cookies? Heaven! This bite-sized cookie will surely make your day. Why don’t you put on your apron and get your own luscious Nutella Thumbprint Cookies?

Nutella thumbprint cookies

No need to worry about complicated baking steps and recipes. You can save your time by only preparing less than 10 lists of ingredients. The tools you need are also there in your kitchen; your standard baking utensils. All you have to do is just simply following the recipe below.

Nutella thumbprint cookies

What’s so Good about This Recipe?

The recipe on this page offers you some good things you can’t miss out.

Time-saving recipe. In less than an hour with less than 10 ingredients, you can fill in your jar with people’s favorite cookies.
One-stop shopping. You just have to step your feet towards a grocery or a nearby convenience store and voila! All you need are waiting to be picked. It is all there.
All-season fit. Summer, winter, school holiday, Christmas, Ied Al Fitr you can name it and Nutella Thumbprint Cookies never go wrong in your living room’s table. You can even have them for your afternoon snacks.

Nutella Thumbprint Cookies

How to Make Nutella Thumbprint Cookies?

Ingredients in Nutella Thumbprint Cookies are varied. However, the listed recipe has been summed up to its easiest yet delectable one for you to try. The very first thing to do in making Nutella Thumbprint Cookies is to prepare the dough by combining butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, salt, chocolate, and flour. In the meantime, you can prepare your oven. Then, as its name says, you need merely your thumbprint to form the dough. Say bye to molds! Put the formed dough into the oven and yes you can enjoy it right away when it is already in room temperature. Otherwise, you might burn your tongue! Can’t wait to have your homemade Nutella Thumbprint Cookies? See the instructions’ details in the recipe below. Have fun baking!

Nutella Thumbprint Cookies

Ingredients in Nutella thumbprint cookies are varied. However, the listed recipe has been summed up to its easiest yet delectable one for you to try.

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup chopped chocolate
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter
2 egg yolks
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
About ½ cup of Nutella hazelnut-chocolate for filling

In a large bowl, pour flour, powdered sugar, salt, and chocolate. Stir it all together until mixed.
Separately, in an electric mixer bowl (or a large bowl), put butter and beat it about 1-2 minutes at medium speed until it is fluffy.
Then, stir egg yolks with a whisk in a cup.
When the egg yolks are combined, add them to the butter along with the vanilla extract. Beat them with mixer until combines.
Then, add the flour mixture to the mixer bowl. Beat them together for several minutes on low speed until the dough combines and becomes thick.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the dough on a wax paper. Knead it until smooth.
After that, break the dough into 28 separated little balls (approximately 1 inch each). Line the balls in a row in 1 (or 2 if necessary) large baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
And then, form the balls by pressing your thumb (or you can also use a measuring spoon) right in the center of each ball.
Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
Place them on wire racks or tray to let them cool.
Have the cookies reached room temperature, put about ½ teaspoon of Nutella into the indented center of each cookie.

Baking tips

In order to have a proper measurement of flour, you can pick your knife as a help. Put the knife on top of the measuring cup to have an exact 1 cup flour for your recipe.
When placing the ball-dough onto the baking sheet, be sure to have each ball one inch apart on the paper.
Before filling in the Nutella to the cookies, you might want to microwave it first for 20 seconds in a microwave-safe bowl. This way makes you easier to place Nutella onto the center of the cookies.

Nutrition Facts

86 calories, 10 g carbs, 6 g sugar, 5 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 1 g protein, 1 g fiber

(from myfitnesspal.com)

Making your own Nutella Thumbprint Cookies is a piece of cake! Now everyone can do baking and conquer the kitchen. Don’t forget to pack and store your masterpiece in an air-tight container…if there are left some in a couple of hours after baking.

August 24, 2019 0 comment

Snack Foods

Lazy Day Coconut Macaroons

by CookingMasters August 24, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Your schedule is jam-packed or you’re just being too lazy, but you want to have a good snack and make it yourself. If you’re thinking about coconut macaroons, you’ve made a perfect choice. You don’t need to spend all of your free time making it because it only takes less than thirty minutes. Besides, you only need to look up inside your cupboard and take very few ingredients. You’ll soon have a bite of the crunchy outside part of the macaroons and chew the soft-and-sweet middle part.

Coconut macaroons

How to make coconut macaroons

If you’re wondering why it’s possible to make this lazy version of coconut macaroons, then here is the answer: because all you need to do is just baking. There’s literally no other way in making macaroons. But you can experiment by adding some chocolates, nuts, of even fill the macaroons with dried fruit. If you do have time, of course, you can add those things and even make various kinds of macaroons. If you don’t, stay calm! The classic lazy day coconut macaroons will safe the day!

Coconut macaroons

What are the ingredients for the recipe

Thinking of going to the groceries store might give you a headache, so why should you bother? Just stay home, because everything you need for creating your very own coconut macaroons is already there, either in the fridge or in the cupboard. If your stocks are running low, ask for some from your neighbor and share the coconut macaroons once it’s done. Here are a very few ingredients you need:

Coconut
Egg whites
Almond or vanilla extract
Sugar
Salt

The amount of coconut depends on your preference. More coconut is needed for making lighter macaroons, while the crunchier one needs more egg whites and sugar. There are many kinds of additional ingredients you can put to the macaroons. Just pick whatever you want or simply stay with the basics. Both are just as yummy!

Coconut Macaroons

Step-by-step overview for the recipe

There’s not much you should do. All it takes is just preparing the ingredients and once you have them all ready, mix them together and bake. Relax, wait for a few minutes and you’ll get the coconut macaroons that you want.

Whisk the egg whites, sugar, vanilla and salt.
Combine the coconut and egg white mixture
Shape and bake the macaroons

Isn’t it surprising how easy the overview steps are? Trust me, because it is. It’s basically you let the oven does the work for you and all you need to do is enjoying yourself. The mixed ingredients will bake itself and you’ll have all the macaroons you want in a blink of an eye. Here is the more detailed recipe:

Coconut Macaroons

In lazy days, baking coconut macaroons might be the best thing to do. It doesn’t take much of your time and effort. The most delicious macaroons ever will be ready for you!

3 cups of sweetened, shredded coconut
1 teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract
cups of granulated sugar
teaspoon of salt

Heat the oven: you need to arrange a rack inside the bottom third and set the oven at a temperature of 350°F (176°C).
Toast the coconut if necessary: if you prefer super crispy macaroons or a deeper flavor coconut, you’ll need to spread the coconut on a baking sheet and toast until it shows some color. It takes about five minutes. Before using the toasted coconut, cool it for a couple of minutes.
Whisk the egg whites, vanilla, sugar, and salt: in a large bowl, put the egg whites, sugar, salt and almond or vanilla extract. Whisk them all until the sugar and the white eggs are perfectly mixed, combined and frothy.
Combine the egg white mixture and the coconut: stir the coconut together with the white egg mixture until it’s moistened evenly.
Shape the macaroons: wet your hands to prevent sticking, shape the mixture into balls. Make them small, just about inches (4cm) in diameter. Give a few spaces when putting them in a baking sheet. Don’t forget to lime the sheet with a parchment paper or a silicone baking.
Bake and cool the macaroons: it takes around 15 to 20 minutes to bake until it turns golden brown. Once it’s baked, let them cool for five minutes and cool them completely on a wire rack.
Store them in a covered container at room temperature up to one week.

Nutrition facts

August 24, 2019 0 comment

Dessert Snack Foods

Healthy Cake: How to Make Delicious Italian Lemon Pound Cake

by CookingMasters August 24, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Italian lemon pound cake

Do you like lemons or foods that have a lemon aroma? If you are a lemon lover, you should try one of the delicious cakes, which are very tasty and of course very healthy for you to consume. You don’t need to be confused whether this cake has side effects for you or not because this cake has absolutely no side effects for you. So, you don’t need to be confused to try this cake.

Interested to try it? Unfortunately, are you confused because no seller is selling this cake? Now, you don’t need to be sad because you visit the best article. In this article, I will present to you an easy way to make Italian lemon pound cake and of course you can make it at home.

Italian Lemon Pound Cake

You also don’t need to be confused to buy the ingredients needed because the ingredients that you need can be found easily at the nearest supermarket. Can’t wait to make it? Let’s try it!

What I love most about this recipe are;

The taste of the Italian lemon pound cake has a sweet taste and the texture is so soft.
You can make this cake easily and the time for making this cake is not too long.
The ingredients are easy to find.
This food is suitable to accompany your breakfast and brunch. Of course, this food has high nutrition and has no side effects for your body.

Italian lemon pound cake

How to Make Delicious Italian Lemon Pound Cake

The way to make the recipe cake is very easy. This cake is one of the Italian cakes that have a deliciously moist texture. This cake is also perfect for accompanying breakfast recipes, snacks or the best dessert. For making this cake, you just need 1 hour to finish your delicious cake. You can also drink warm tea or warm milk while eating this delicious cake. Want to try it?

Italian Lemon Pound Cake

I will present to you an easy way to make italian lemon pound cake and of course you can make it at home.

350 g of flour
1/4 spoon of baking powder
1/4 spoon of salt
240 g of butter
450 g of refined sugar
3 eggs
125 g of yogurt
120 g of sour cream
4 tablespoons of lemon water
1 tablespoon of ginger, finely chopped
2 spoons of grated lemon zest
1 spoonful of vanilla extract
50 ml of lemon water

How to Make Lemon Glaze

1/4 of butter
1 1/2 of refined sugar
3 tablespoons of lemon

To make Italian lemon pound cake, first of all, you have to add flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl and stir until all the ingredients mixed.
Provide another medium-sized bowl, then add butter, smooth sugar and shake until smooth.
Next is you have to add eggs one by one into the bowl. Do not add 3 eggs at a time into the bowl. Beat the eggs into a bowl until smooth and soft.
Then, add yogurt, sour cream, lemon juice, ginger, grated lemon zest, and vanilla extract into a bowl. Add flour and stir until smooth.
After the mixture is finished, pour the mixture into the pan. Use baking paper before the mixture is put into a baking sheet. If you do not have baking paper, you can cover the pan with butter first and sprinkle a little flour into the pan.
After the mixture has put into the pan, put the mixture into the oven and set the temperature to 180 degrees Celsius. Wait for the mixture for 35 minutes or as long as the mixture is cooked and browned.
After the cake is cooked, turn the oven off, open the oven slightly, and let the cake cool for 20 minutes.
After the cake is cold, remove the cake and flush the cake with a lemon glaze.
Enjoy it with tea or milk.

To make a lemon glaze, add the buttercream and slowly add powdered sugar and lemon water. Beat well until smooth and soft.
for the maximum results, eggs and sugar must be stirred at low speed, do not shake or stir at high speed. If adding flour, keep stirring at low speed so the mixture is soft. You can add 1 teaspoon of fresh ginger to the cake mixture, to make them taste better.

Nutrition Facts

How? Is it easy to make this food? Now you don’t need to be confused to make italian lemon pound cake because the recipe above is really easy and you can make it in your home. Good luck!

August 24, 2019 0 comment

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Traditional Irish Scones: Easy Homemade Recipe

by CookingMasters August 24, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Traditional Irish Scones! Have you ever eaten this food before? Do you know? Scones are one of the healthy food that can accompany your days which these foods are made from bread, barley or oatmeal, and baking powder. Scones are baked until they are cooked and this food is very delicious when it served. Traditional irish scones can also be served after you eat a sandwich. You can enjoy it with spread jam such as strawberry, butter or other fruit jam. Of course, this food is very tasty and healthy for your body.

The thing that I like the most about traditional Irish scones and maybe you will like it too is that you can eat this food as breakfast and brunch. You also don’t need to be confused to add jam or margarine in this food because you can add all of those whatever you like.

Traditional Irish Scones

What I love most about this recipe are;

The taste of this traditional Irish scones has a slightly sweet taste but the texture is so soft.
You can add a variety of flavors with a variety of jams and flavored butter.
This scone has a soft and brittle texture. If you bite every scone, you will feel that this scone has a very good texture.
Time to make this scone is not a too long time. You only need 40-45 minutes to make this food.
This food is suitable to accompany your breakfast and brunch. Of course, this food has high nutrition and has no side effects for your body.

Traditional irish scones

How to Make Traditional Irish Scones Easily

To make traditional Irish scones is very easy. You just need to prepare the ingredients needed to make this food. The ingredients needed are also very easy. You can buy these ingredients in the supermarket near to you. In this version, I will share tips and an easy recipe for making traditional Irish scones. For making this food, you just need 1 hour and 15 minutes to finish your food. You don’t need to be confused to make it again because from now you can make it by yourself in your home. Let’s try it!

Traditional Irish Scones

381 g of flour (You can use multipurpose flour to make softer scones)
66 g of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
170 grams of unsalted butter (cold and cut into small pieces)
1 cup of buttermilk or milk (if you don't have buttermilk)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Coarse sugar (for sprinkling (if desired))

First, to make traditional Irish scones, you must prepare the oven and set the oven to 400 °F. After that, prepare 2 large-sized baking sheets and cover the baking sheet using baking paper. If you don't have baking paper, you can use flour to sprinkle the pan.
After that, prepare a large bowl and mix ingredients such as flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
After all, ingredients are mixed, add butter and cut the butter into small. In a separate bowl shake the butter with buttermilk, 1 egg, and vanilla extract.
Mix the ingredients to mix perfectly. You can also add dried fruit, nuts, chocolate and other flavorings based on your interest.
After that, move the mixture to the flour and divide it into 2 equal parts. Make the mixture with a diameter of 6-7 cm each. Cut each into 8 slices and place it on a prepared pan.
At this part, you can wrap scones for 1 night before you bake them.
For the roasting process, mix 1 egg with 1 spoonful of water into a small bowl.
Then, apply it to the scone and sprinkle the coarse sugar.
Bake scones for 13-15 minutes or the color is brown.
After you finish baking, you can add fruit jam, butter, peanuts, or other ingredients that you like.
You can serve scones with warm tea or warm milk.
Enjoy it!

Tips for Making Perfect Scones

Buttermilk: to make scones, avoid using thinner milk. Because it will make the scones even and not scented. If you are confused, you can use coconut milk cans for maximum results.
Butter: To make scones, use frozen grated butter.
Roasting: For the roasting process, chill the mixture before baking. It will avoid uneven distribution. It will be better if you put the scones in the refrigerator for 25-35 minutes to make the mixture more perfect.
Before baking, make the scone cool. To make it cool, you can warm in the microwave for 40 seconds.

Nutrition Facts

Carbs: 21 g
Dietary Fibers: 1 g
Sugars: 5 g
Fats: 3 g
Saturateds: 2 g
Polyunsaturateds: 0 g
Monounsaturateds: 0 g
Transs: 1 g
Proteins: 6 g
Sodiums: 137 mg
Cholesterols: 7 mg
Vitamin As: 0 %
Vitamin Cs: 0 %
Calcium: 5 %
Irons: 6 %

Percentages are based on a diet of 2000 calories.

How? Is it easy to make this food? Now you don’t need to be confused to make traditional Irish scones because the recipe above is really easy and you can make it in your home. Good luck!

August 24, 2019 0 comment

Snack Foods

Pan Fried Cinnamon Bananas: Your Delicious Taste

by CookingMasters August 22, 2019

written by CookingMasters

Any of you who really like bananas? What kind of banana preparation do you make at home? In an increasingly modern era, many processed bananas are innovated to become more interesting foods and more tempting flavors. Beside directly edible, there are various preparations that you can do to increase the delicacy in bananas. Generally, people process bananas by frying them. Fried bananas may have been popular among the people. There are also many connoisseurs. Bananas wrapped in flour have a sweet and crispy taste.

Pan fried cinnamon bananas

There are many kinds of variations ranging from regular fried bananas, crispy bananas, banana cheese, and chocolate bananas. But have you tried the recipe? It can be enjoyed when you are relaxed. Spend time to work or something else that makes a tired mood and body. The thing you can do is make something that can make your mood back to normal. Eat the panfried cinnamon banana can be one way.

Can ordinary people make pan-fried cinnamon banana? How to make it? Are the ingredients needed around us? Don’t worry, here I will share how to make pan-fried cinnamon bananas. Pan-fried cinnamon banana is processed with the basic ingredients of banana which are created into delicious food. By adding cinnamon, making a banana that initially looks normal can be delicious and nutritious food. It doesn’t take long to make pan-fried cinnamon banana, it only takes a few minutes. But first, you need to know in advance which type of banana is suitable for making pan fried cinnamon bananas.

Pan Fried Cinnamon Bananas

Types of bananas that are suitable for frying

Make sure you use bananas that are ripe bananas, but not too ripe.
Use a special type of banana for fried, because there are types of bananas that are direct to eat without being processed first. If you use just any banana, it will make the taste not good.

Pan Fried Cinnamon Bananas

You need to know in advance which type of banana is suitable for making pan fried cinnamon bananas.

2 bananas
1 tablespoon of butter/oil/cooking spray
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoon honey

Make sure you prepare the ingredients above. After you get these materials, please note the step by step how to make them below.

First, cut the bananas into some of the pieces.
Second, heat the pan on the stove and put a tablespoon butter/oil/cooking spray. Make sure that your pan is hot, and that you put honey and cinnamon.
Stir all until mixed.
Add some piece of banana, fry it a more or less 2-3 minutes on each side, make sure the color charge until golden remember not to take too long when frying so it doesn’t burn.
After that, the banana from the frying pan and drain.
Last step you can put the banana on the plate and sprinkle a little sugar and cinnamon as a garnish.
Pan-fried cinnamon bananas ready to be served.

Those were the steps to make pan fried cinnamon bananas. How easy isn’t it? It does not require a long time. You can make it yourself, with family or with your friends. Hopefully, you can try it at home. Other important information is that in one portion of pan-fried cinnamon bananas you will get good nutrition for your body. so I will write down the nutritional content in one serving pan-fried cinnamon bananas.

Nutrition Facts For Pan Fried Cinnamon

Calories : 155kcal
Protein : 1g
Carbohydrates : 39g
Fiber : 3g
Sugar : 26g
Vitamin A : 75IU
Sodium : 1mg
Potassium : 422mg
Vitamin C : 10,2mg
Iron : 0,3mg
Calcium : 16mg

With the nutritional content found in pan fried cinnamon bananas, you don’t need to worry. Because all the nutritional content is positive for our body. Such as carbohydrates, it is one of the main energy sources for us. If you lose some energy after exercising, then you can substitute it with bananas. In addition, the bananas can also be used as a tool to replenish backup energy which is usually used up before the main meal. Besides that, banana has potassium. This fruit is famous for its potassium content. One medium-sized banana contains 400 mg of potassium. Oh yes, potassium is a substance that can maintain fluid balance in our bodies. In addition, potassium can also prevent muscle cramps after exercise. So, by eating pan-fried cinnamon bananas you will get good benefits for your health…

For your information, the cinnamon bananas can be enjoyed with extra food. Like ice cream, you can add it’s on cinnamon bananas that you serve. Add ice cream to make pan-fried cinnamon bananas more delicious. Besides that, you also eat pan fried cinnamon bananas while drinking coffee. Coffe is the right drink to complete your day while eating fried bananas.

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