Showing posts with label Baking tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baking tips. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2021

April 10, 2021

Lemon & cherry cupcakes | How to make lemon and cherry cupcakes | Lemon cupcakes with frosting

    These homemade lemon cupcakes are soft and moist, bursting with lemon and cherry flavor, and topped with smooth vanilla buttercream. You’ll love the refreshing zest of citrus flavor in each bite! 

    Lemon and cherry is one of the interesting combinations and if you haven’t tried it yet, now’s the time.




Lemon & cherry cupcakes | How to make lemon and cherry cupcakes | Lemon cupcakes with frosting
Lemon & cherry cupcakes | How to make lemon and cherry cupcakes | Lemon cupcakes with frosting
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Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup Milk
  • 2 - 3 tsp Vinegar
  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 3/4 cup Powdered sugar
  • 1 or 2 tsp Lemon zest
  • 2 tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 & 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped candied Cherries

Instructions
  • Mix milk and vinegar. Set aside for 10 minutes. (for buttermilk)
  • Beat the butter and powdered sugar until creamy. Mix in the lemon zest and lemon juice. Pour in the buttermilk.
  • Sieve in the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix everything together without any lumps.
  • Fold in the chopped candied cherries.
  • Scoop the batter into muffin liners. Bake in a preheated oven of 170°C for 25 - 30 minutes.
  • Frost the cupcakes with buttercream and enjoy!

    • Recipe video here!

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    Lemon & cherry cupcakes - Step by step pictures

    Mix milk and vinegar. Set aside for 10 minutes. (for buttermilk)
    Beat the butter and powdered sugar until creamy. Mix in the lemon zest and lemon juice. Pour in the buttermilk.
    Sieve in the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix everything together without any lumps.
    Fold in the chopped candied cherries.
    Scoop the batter into muffin liners. Bake in a preheated oven of 170°C for 25 - 30 minutes.
    Frost the cupcakes with buttercream and enjoy!





























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    Sunday, January 27, 2019

    January 27, 2019

    How to preheat an ifb microwave oven | How to preheat an oven for baking

        


        After getting a good oven for kitchen, every beginner baker is very much curious about baking his/her own cake! Off Course, everybody have that curiousness, even I had that when I started my journey! And if you want to bake a cake, first and foremost step which you have to follow is Preheating.. and obviously it's not only for cakes, you have to preheat your over for all your baking recipes. Before learning how to preheat an oven, let me tell you what it is and why we have to do it.

    What is preheating of an oven?

    Preheating is heating up of an oven to a desired temperature beforehand. Same thing happens on stove top too, where we heat up the pan without adding anything on it before cooking. Also check out this post to know more about preheating.


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    Is it really important to preheat the oven before baking?



    How to preheat an IFB microwave oven?

    Preheating procedure generally varies from oven to oven and here I am gonna show you how I preheat my IFB microwave oven. Before that you need to know two simple things. 

    A microwave oven has three different modes like microwave, grill and convection as you can see here. Along with that we have the combinations like Micro + grill and Micro + convection. That means, microwave mode is combined with both grill and convection modes. 

    Preheating is done only for the convection mode. None of the other modes require preheating.
    Always preheat your oven empty. You don't have to place the baking tray in while preheating. 



    Steps to preheat an IFB microwave oven

    Switch on the oven and press the convection option once. 



     After pressing, you'll see something like this on the display. 110 C is the starting temperature. Conv on the bottom shows that it is convection mode.



    Keep on pressing the same option till you reach your desired temperature. Stop at your desired temperature. I stopped at 160 C.
     
    Now directly press the start option. 

    After pressing, you'll see something like this on display. PREH means preheating, you'll see it flickering on screen. And that means, your oven is getting preheated. It is already set for 30 minutes. But it won't actually take that much time. PREH will stop flickering once the oven reaches the desired temperature.


     PREH stopped flickering at this point of time. Now the oven is preheated to 160 °C. You can also use an oven thermometer to check it.



    Now place the cake tin inside.


    Again press the convection option and choose the same temperature.



     Now set the timer by pressing minutes and seconds option.



    Finally press the start option to start baking.

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    Monday, August 20, 2018

    August 20, 2018

    Is it really important to preheat your oven before baking?


    Have you ever baked without preheating your oven?

    Every baking recipe has this very first step called PREHEATING. Have you ever wondered why we have to do it? Is that really important? Before getting into that thing in detail, let me first tell you what preheating is?


     What is Preheating of an Oven?

         Preheating literally means heating of the oven to a desired temperature (the temperature which is mentioned on your recipe), before actual cooking. we are actually getting the oven ready for baking! Remember to preheat your empty oven without placing anything inside.

        Seriously most of the people have this question hitting their heads. PREHEATING!!!! Does it really make any sense??? And also because of some sort of laziness people skip preheating their ovens before baking. Now I am gonna list out few of the reasons that are really worth preheating your ovens.


    If the food is placed in a cold oven without preheating, it won't bake evenly. You'll end up with food uncooked on some portions and well cooked on other portion
    For cakes, cookies and other pastries, if they are baked in a cold oven, they'll miss out their texture. For example, if it's a cookie it won't get it's crispy and flaky texture instead they'll become hard and they might get browned on top.

    If it's a cake, initial temperature is the one which makes the leavening agents to do their job. It'll rise up in the beginning and then it'll settle down. If the oven is cold before starting, it'll take it's own time to rise up and reach the desired temperature. Then think of your cake?

    If the oven is not preheated, you'll notice a change in the baking time since it'll take some time to reach the desired temperature as I said.

         Most importantly you have to keep one thing in your mind that oven temperature reduces when the oven door is opened, as beginners have a habit of opening up the door now and then out of curiosity. Happy Baking!!!





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    Friday, June 29, 2018

    June 29, 2018

    What is a microwave oven? What you can do with it ? Microwave Life saving hacks

    MICROWAVE OVEN


      Microwave oven is an electric oven used for all sort of general cooking purposes and people call them as microwave hacks since they are really life saving. Initially microwave ovens are used for reheating the cooked food and later on they've started cooking several recipes which are really time saving and easy to make. 

    HOW IT WORKS 

             
    You might be wondering how a microwave oven works?

    In the microwave oven heat which is required for cooking your food is generated through radio waves. Water molecules in your food gets vibrated and that generates the required amount of heat to cook your food. Because of it's working principle, microwave oven is considered to be more efficient in certain cases than a convection oven. It heats up quickly and it takes very less time to cook your food.
          For example, if you are baking a cake in a convection oven, it'll take  around 30 - 40 minutes of your time whereas in a microwave oven you can be able to do it within 10 minutes. But if you expect your cake to be like the one which is baked in a convection oven, you'll be disappointed since they both have different working principles. Microwave cake won't have burnt dark edges since they don't caramelize your food like the convection ovens.


    MICROWAVE SAFE UTENSILS


        Undoubtedly you have to use microwave safe utensils to cook your food in microwave mode. There are loads of microwave safe dishes available in market with difference in brands and materials like glass, ceramic and plastic. Before using any one of them check whether it's microwave safe or not. If you want to know more about microwave safe dishes and how to find whether your dish is microwave safe or not, check out my another post where I have written everything about it in detail. 

    WHAT IS MICROWAVE POWER LEVEL?

          In all brands of microwave oven, you can find the microwave power level option in your control panel and that's basically used for the adjusting power level of your microwave oven as per your recipe. For example, if you want to cook your food in high power press the microwave power level option once and you'll see higher value or H1 on screen (if you are using an IFB microwave). H1 means high power and then you can set the timer and start the cooking process.
         The highest power level differs from different brands of the microwave oven and that basically affects the cooking time of your food. They have different power levels and you have to adjust the cooking time accordingly. But from my opinion it's not a very big issue, you'll get to know your microwave once you start using it.

    MICROWAVE LIFE SAVING HACKS

    What are called life saving hacks? Things that makes one's life much more easier. 
       Microwave oven is definitely a life saver since it saves most of your time in kitchen. Microwave oven has the flexibility of using a serving dish as a cooking dish to cook your food and it saves lots of time and energy.

    COOKING RICE & DAL
        In Microwave mode you can cook your rice perfectly as you cook it in pressure cookers or rice cookers and trust me guys, it won't take much time to do it. Not only the plain rice, you can make variety of rice recipes like pulao, biryani etc. 
    Same as rice you can cook your dal in microwave mode. It'll  definitely help you if you have to cook a small amount of rice and dal and you don't want to use pressure cookers for that. Take the required amount of rice and water in a microwave safe bowl, cover it with a cling film, prick some holes on the cling film with a fork and cook it in microwave mode. You can also use a microwave rice cooker which is available for cooking rice in microwave mode.

    MAKING ROTIS OR PHULKAS
       You might be thinking, Making roti in microwave oven? Are you serious!
    Looks hilarious right? But seriously you can make your rotis in microwave oven, in the same way as you cook papads. For both papads and rotis, try to brush some oil on both the sides and if you do it, you don't find any difference between the stove top cooked ones and the microwave cooked ones.

    MAKING CHAI & COFFEE
       It's so easy to grab a microwave safe mug and make your own drink by yourself without messing around. Either a tea or a coffee, you can make it within few minutes. You can even make your jeera water, if you have a habit of dinking it every morning in an empty stomach.

    CHIPS, PAPADS AND POPCORN
       For making chips, place thinly sliced potatoes on a microwave safe dish with a drizzle of olive oil and cook it until it becomes crisp and for papads you can place it directly on your turn table and cook it.
    It will be cooked within seconds with zero oil consumption and you'll find no difference in it's taste. Can you believe that?
      To make popcorn, you can either use a brown paper bag or a microwave safe dish with lid closed. It's so simple to make a big bowl of popcorn by yourself and enjoy your movie time.


     BOILING POTATOES & TOMATOES

       You can quickly boil your potatoes for making aloo sabzi or any potato dishes. Prick some holes all over the potatoes with a knife or a fork and place them in a microwave safe closed dish. Cook them for 3 - 5 minutes on high power. This is how I cook my potatoes in my 20L IFB Microwave oven.
      And for making rich gravies like paneer butter masala, matar paneer and butter chicken, some people want to boil and remove the peel of the tomatoes to make the gravy much more smoother and tastier. Microwave oven in very much useful for that. 

    Off Couse you can boil your potatoes and tomatoes in pressure cookers. But if you have to do it in smaller quantities and that's about one or two tomatoes we don't prefer using pressure cookers right?
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     BOILING CORN

    This is again a life saver! Place your corn  on the turn table of your microwave and cook it for 3 - 4 minutes on high power. Don't remove the husk of the corn, remove it after cooking since it traps moisture inside to boil your corn evenly all around.

    MICROWAVE MUG MEALS
        You might have heard of  this term MICROWAVE MUG MEALS. It's becoming tread now. You can make your quick meal in a mug for breakfast, dinner or whenever you feel like eating something good.
    What can you cook in a mug? You'll be amazed with the answer for this question. You can make recipes like scrambled eggs, mac & cheese, French toast, different varieties of microwave mug cake recipes, noodles, oatmeal, pancakes, risotto (rice cooked in broth or stock with veggies, meat or seafood), fried rice, lasagna and the list goes on.
    For more microwave mug meal recipes, visit www.biggerbolderbaking.com by Chef Gemma Stafford. She's a chef/ baker from Ireland and she makes a wide variety of microwave mug meal recipes.

    MICROWAVE CAKE
        As I mentioned earlier, you can make cake in microwave oven. It'll take very less time compared to the cake which is baked in convection oven and the microwave cake is absolutely delicious. But the point is, the cake baked in convection oven has brown edges, since the cooking principle is entirely different. In the convection oven your cake is baked whereas in microwave it's getting cooked in it's own principle. That means, you'll find some sort of differences in both the cakes. 

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