Baking Sunday #3

Baking Sunday #3 : Strawberry & sour cream muffins



Another 'Baking Sunday' ?

... Well, this time I cheated a little, it was a Wednesday.


Nevertheless, spring has (at least more or less) also arrived in Austria !

The birds have started to sing, the flowers and trees have started to bloom ...
& there's a sunny mood in the air !

Strawberries are even more popular in early summer, but I found some & they just had to be used for some bakery !

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You'll need: (for 12 + muffins)

• 200 g of flour

• 60 g oat flakes
  

• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

• 2 eggs

• 180 g of (brown) sugar

• 3 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

• 150 g of soft butter

• 300 g of sour cream

• 150 - 200 g strawberries

• confectioner's sugar for dusting afterwards

Go get your apron & let's get our spring time baking frenzy started ! ...

my lovely cupcake apron hurhur :B

Put flour, oat flakes & baking powder together into a bowl.

Now crack the two eggs & whisk them in another bowl.

Then add sugar, vanilla sugar, butter & sour cream into the bowl containing the whisked eggs.

Mix both doughs thoroughly together.

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Now it's about time to let your oven heat up to 180°C !
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Now it's strawberry time !

Those are quite positively not 200 g ...
I just couldn't resist scoffing some fresh strawberries in ... oh yummy ...

Cut them into small cubes.

And pull them carefully into the dough.
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I got myself some flower-shaped muffin cups !

Before filling in the dough, be sure to grease your cups thoroughly,
using butter or vegetable oil.

So as soon as your oven is all heated up -
'chop-chop !' off they go !


Let them bake for about 20 - 25 minutes.

And then ...

Having a hearty bite ?

No, not yet.

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My mum bought me this nice porcelain étagère !

A really nice option to display your bakery !



Dust with some confectioner's sugar & they'll become even more delicious !

Bon appétit !

A very easy & quick recipe !
The results were reeeaally nice mhhhm ... :)

Although the ingredients are intended for 12 muffins,
I actually got 16 out of it !
It would be good if you had more than 12 muffin cups at home, so you don't have to wait.

With the confectioner's sugar on them they tasted like 'Kaiserschmarrn' - a superb Austrian dessert !


Yummy yummy yummy ♪

I've got strawberry & sour cream muffins in my tummy ♪



That's it again !

Happy baking & Thank you for reading ღ


emily.

Baking Sunday #2

Baking Sunday #2: Tartelettes

... or the tale of an optical & textural failure ...

When I found those cute tartelette baking moulds at Tchibo,
I just couldn't resist purchasing them ...



And they had to be tried out right away !



You'll need for the crust: (for 2 tartelettes)

• 1 tablespoon of water
  

• 42 g of flour

• 21 g softened butter

• 21 g of confectioner's sugar

• 1 tablespoon (or basically as much as you want to add) poppyseed

• 1 egg

(actually you don't need a whole one, but the problem is rather: how to part a raw egg in ½ ? haha ...)

• a pinch of ground lemon zest

• a pinch of salt

You'll need for the topping:

• 200 g sour cream

• 1 teaspoon yoghurt

• confectioner's sugar (enough to make your cream stay stiff)
  

• 1/3 glass of lemon juice

• 2-3 tablespoons of vanilla custard
  

• 4 big strawberries, cubed

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Add water to the egg in a bowl and mix shortly .

Now mix the egg with flour, poppyseed, butter, sugar, lemon zest & salt.
Let the dough rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes.

Later grease the pans thoroughly & fill in the dough.

Put into preheated oven (on 170°C) & let bake for 15-20 minutes.

On to the topping !
Mix sour cream, yoghurt, sugar & lemon juice together.

To make the vanilla custard, heat (here only a little) milk on the stove & prepare the custard according to the instructions on the package. Make sure to let it it cool off before further use.

So after ~20 minutes the tartelettes were all baked !

As the dough started to rise when they were in the oven, I took a fork & pinched in some holes. Usually you weigh down the dough with pebbles or beans, but I have none.

Furthermore the sides started to run down & no matter how desperately I tried to fix them, nothing helped.

Therefore my tartelettes only had a very small & thin rim, which made it hard to fill in the topping, because it kept running out all over the place ... (._.)/

Strawberries for the topping ! :D

Somehow my cream didn't get creamy at all & remained all runny :(

So in all my despair (I had to take these tartelettes with me to a party), I decided to mix in a bit of boiled Agar Agar - usually fastening EVERYTHING and you don't taste it at all (AND it is much healthier than Gelatine!)

But oh well - this time not even Agar Agar managed to fix my cream.
So I just tried my best to fill as much as possible it in the tartelettes & decorated them with strawberries.

Tadaaaaaah~

But: I have to say they were tremendously delicious &
were very well recieved by everyone !

Yum Yum.

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Afterwards - it's just always afterwards that we do so - I realized what I had done wrong !

A problem I often have when I'm in a hurry to finish things - not reading close enough !
And so I managed to miss an important step when making the vanilla custard & therefore it didn't turn into anything creamy ...


I'm definitely going to give them another try soon.
And then with reading instructions properly hahah ... ;D

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That's it again !


Thank you for reading. ღ



emily.