Today I made a matcha chiffon roll cake using kotobuki flour. Before, I made chocolate chiffon roll cake using other brand of flour. I counted I have failed each time making chiffon roll cake with that flour. The surface was always WET somehow. So, today, I went back to kotobuki …
Category: Baking Notes
Baking Choux Pastry :Holding The Triangle Syringe Plastic
Made choux Pastry yesterday. It wasn’t as pretty as expected though I still counted it as succeed. When I syringed the dough, somehow I switched my left and right grip position. Apparently it had effect on the shape. I usually push with right grip while left grip holding the …
Rigid Recipe of Chocolate Chiffon Roll Cake (part 1)
Two days ago, I baked a chocolate chiffon roll cake and failed. I baked without a good mood and ‘too’ confident, changing flour and not weight the eggs wouldn’t cause any failure. Then, I failed. I’m pretty shock because “I thought I have” follow my own recipe. These were what …
Baking for Orders Lesson: Don’t be creative with the fixed technique
I got orders a few days ago. I thought I had done what I usually did with the recipes. Yet, the cakes were ruined! My husband analyze by asking me: Did you change what you usually do? I said, I baked at higher temperature and compensate it with time. My …
Chocolate Chiffon: Using Expensive Ingredients
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miss Udin (@udinslife) Sometimes in baking, we have a lot of option regarding to ingredients brands. Today, once again, I found that expensive brand ingredients don’t always give the result I want. I used callebaut when making brownies. A …
The Death of Instant Yeast (I’m crying)
I bought a pack of yeast and stored it for weeks. I didn’t open it, yet. I bought it long before using it because I was active doing trial and error while making bread for daily breakfast. The just few days ago, I opened the pack and used the yeast. …
Chocolate Cipon (Chiffon) ~ Cold Meringue
I made a Chocolate Cipon (Chiffon) Cake 2 days ago. This cake is usually very difficult to make, even compared with common Chiffon Cake. Anyway, Cipon is my own naming on this cake. It’s like Chiffon but much more moist and a bit ‘sweaty’ inside the cake. So, it’s not …
About Japanese Cheesecake Smooth Surface (No Recipe, just TIPS)
So… I have been wondering how to make the surface of the cake smooth or only ‘hairy’ cracked that will be closed by itself later after it’s cooled down. I always have this feeling: I think, this has to do with the ‘brand’ of the cream cheese. I mean, every …
Cutting Japanese Cheese Cake
I remember, I watched a chef in youtube, cutting his japanese cheesecake using tooth floss. I wondered if it’s just an act (even though the cutting is pretty neat and clean). I have been using a japanese cheesecake recipe for long time, same recipe. I thought, I didn’t have a …
Couverture Chocolate In Chiffon Cake Baking
I have been making chiffon cakes for months. This time is my “own” recipe, not an original one but I change the original recipe many times that it has became my own recipe. One of the chiffon cake is Chocolate chiffon cake. The chiffon recipe is quite unusual because I …