3rd Pastry & Baking Class ♥

this post has been delayed by 3 days

finally I manage to squeeze out some time for my 3rd pastry class

we are learning choux paste this time

just for everyone's information, choux paste is the main ingredient for making puff & eclair

and what we have made are :

- cream puff

- chocolate eclair

- churros

all of these items tasted nice

especially the puff as there is cream inside

I know the cream is quite fattening but it's YUMMY!

tell me who can actually stop him/herself from cream?!

if you are saying you are the one who can,

I'll say SORRY, I just can't stop myself from loving cream ♥

okay, no more rubbish talk from me

let's start with the instruction -->

all instructions are written clearly on the board

what we have to do is just get all the ingredients mixed up together

the cream puff & chocolate eclair are using the same dough

so now we are beginning with the 1st step :

measure 120gm of margarine in a pot

add in 300ml of water and melt the margarine with medium fire

cook until the margarine totally melts

off the fire & add in 170gm of flour

mix the melted margarine & the flour well

the product after mixing the both items together should be like this

make sure the flour turns into yellow colour

4 no.s of eggs are needed

add in one by one while beating the dough

this is the process of beating the dough

remember to add in the eggs!

the dough will finally turn into this look after the beating

the cream-like dough!

this is what we called "choux"

spread some butter on the tray

just a thin layer will do

fill the choux inside the thing shown in the photo

*sorry, I didn't know what it is called 

carefully squeeze out the dough 

6 rolls will be enough for the chocolate eclair

just scrap away any failed shape & re-squeeze a new one

round shape is for the cream puff ♥

the longer shape is for the chocolate eclair ♥

ready to be baked

^^

the puffs are & eclairs are cooled after being baked for 30mins

 the round puff

the eclairs

 now, cut at the middle of both puffs & eclairs

remember not to cut into halves

just cut on one side of them

fill the cream through the cuts

this photo is showing bad model actually

don't follow my act :p

our chef is preparing the chocolate for us

dip the puffs & eclairs into the chocolate

we are just having chocolate on the top

but if u are greedy, u can choose to dip the whole puff/eclair into the chocolate

  taa-dan

they are ready to be fridged

the chocolate has become hard after 30mins

it's time for us to start eating 

♥

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after the 2 pastry items have done, we continue with our 3rd item - churros

mix sugar, water & cooking oil in a pot

cook the mixture using medium fire

add in the flour, salt & cinnamon powder into the mixture

same with the steps when making puffs & eclairs

but only 3 no.s of eggs are used this time

after beating, fill the choux into the "I dunno" and bring it the frying pan

squeeze out the choux in thread-like shape

fry the choux until all of them are cooked

finally the churros is done

sugar is added before serving

my group of churros are not looking nice

but the taste is still okay

I finished almost whole tray of them

hehe*

finding that the pastry items we learned actually require simple steps

yet the taste is always nice

I should try to make these often after I go back to Sibu for my holiday

^.^