Jia Lei Bread Making Course Lesson 7

This lesson was a pretty fast one. I have had learnt making cream puffs before thus, it was easy for me. The only difference, its only slight ingredient change which results in a denser and softer puffs. The ones that I did at home had a harder crust and I feel that it it much more suitable to feel the puffs with ice creams to make them profiteroles, as the crunch of the puffs will go better with the softness of the ice cream.

I mixed red bean paste with the basic dough to make red bean bread. A few interesting variations was made. Finally, I baked the sandwich loaf which makes the end of lesson 7.

Jia Lei Bread Making Course Lesson 6

In lesson 6, I baked apple strudel and durian strudel. The layered effect of the strudel is made by folding and rolling out the pastry together with butter several times before baking. For the fillings of apple strudel, I cooked a diced apple together with some cloves, cinnamon and butter till softened. When cooled, spoon the apple mixture on top of the custard cream and top it up with the puff pastry. Sprinkle some icing sugar to decorate. For the durian strudel, just mix some good quality durian with the custard cream and pipe it onto the puff pastry.

I also made breads with basic dough, added fillings like red bean paste, chicken and mushrooms and etc. Topped the buns up with puff pastry of different designs. Pineapple tarts were made too.

Jia Lei Bread making course Lesson 5

During lesson 5, I learnt to make spinach bread and sesame bread. Spinach blended with water to make spinach juice, then added to the basic bread dough. For the sesame bread, finely grounded black sesame is added to the basic dough. For the spinach bread, I filled it with stir fried chilli dried prawns (hae bee hiam) and placed some banana leaves over the bread for decorations. As for the sesame bread, I made three variations. I filled some with bbq pork (char siew) and coat it with Mexican topping (like polo bun), some with coconut, and others plain with black and white sesame on the surface.