Recipe book: Bread

I love this book!! It was originally written in Japanese and my version is the Chinese translated version. I'm not sure if you can tell from the cover, but the book name is something along the lines of "Bread that taste good andwon't make you fat!", and the cover explains why as well -all bread are "non butter non oil", explains it all!!

On the bottom you also see how they have cut down the calorie content of one of their breads. They actually have a calorie analysis for all of their recipes which is really nice :)

Another reason why I love this recipe book is because they use normal ingredients. Usually if you get calorie reduced foods, they tell you to use low fat margarine, or aritificial sugar or egg substitute, but this does not use any of these. There's four chapters:

1. Water as the liquid
2. Milk as the liquid
3. Egg as the liquid
4. Milk & egg as the liquid

and obviously they are in order of increasing caloric content.

What surprised me the most was that they managed to make fat reduced croissants!! Croissants made with yogurt instead of butter!! Must try!!

They're so cute!!

Yoghurt :O

Cream Puffs

Beard Papa is a Japanese chain store which sells "fresh'n natural cream puffs" and it is really popular at the moment. Many of my friends and family have been there and they really enjoy eating the cream puffs. (http://www.beardpapa.com.hk/eng_index.html)

I recreated these all famous cream puffs at home on Saturday. I made these for school last year, so its nothing new, and they weren't hard to make either :)


Ingredients (makes 6-8)
3/4 cup water
50 g unsalted butter
3/4 cup flour, sifted
3 eggs beaten lightly


1. Gently heat butter and water until it simmers
2. Take off heat and add flour all in one go, beat quickly with a wooden spoon 
3. Return to heat, beat until the mixture leaves the side of the pan. Remove from heat.
4. Beat eggs in one at a time, incorperating well after each addition. Beat until the mixture is stiff, glossy, and a wooden spoon stands in the mixture
5. Spoon tablespoonfuls of batter into a baking tray and bake at 210C for 20-25 minutes. 

Rising

Rising

POOF!

Topping:
200g dark chocolate
30g butter


Melt dark chocoalte and butter using a bain-marie method. Spread the chocolate on top of the puffs


Filling:
Whipped Cream, sweetened
Fresh fruits, diced


I used fresh mangoes and strawberries!

We had a little puff buffet hehe. Add fillings as you wish :)
Try it!!