pastry week 9

KIWI COULIS, CHOCOLATE SAUCE AND CARAMEL SAUCE

mushi-mushi! we meet again hehe its kinda frustrating that i have to do the blog through my smartphone -_- due to some technical problems .. but anyway, this week, we are doing mainly sauces for pastry, it look simple, but i bet its not that easy. fortunately, we manage to do it anyway yeyy! so here are the recipes.. enjoy!

CHOCOLATE SAUCE RECIPE:

• ¾ cup                            white sugar
• 1 ½ cup                         all- purpose flour
• ½ cup                            unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 ¼ cup         milk
• 2 tsp                              butter
• ½ tsp                             vanilla extract
• 1 tiny                             Pinch salt

Method:

1. Place sugar, flour and cocoa powder into a bowl. Whisk together to remove lumps.

2. Heat milk, butter and vanilla extract in a saucepan over medium heat until butter melts.

3. Whisk dry ingredient into the milk mixture a little at a time interest heat to medium-high until the 4. mixture comes to simmer. Whisk in a pinch of salt.

5. Store in airtight container in the refrigerator or can be used directly over and products.

CARAMEL SAUCE RECIPE:

• 1 cup                             granulated sugar
• ¼ cup                            water
• 6 tbsp                            salted butter [cut into pieces]
• 1 teaspoon course sea salt

 Method:

1. Add sugar and water to a 3-quart saucepan, set over medium heat stir until combined. Then don’t 2. stir again simply swirl the saucepan until the sugar has melted and turns and light amber color

3. Carefully add butter and whisk until all the butter has melted

4. Remove the saucepan from the heat and slowly pour in the cream, whisking constantly until all of 5. the cream has been incorporated. Whisk in sea salt and set aside to cool

6. All on to cool about 5 minutes and then pour into an airtight container for storing in the refrigerator

KIWI COULIS RECIPE:

• 2 tsp [30ml] cornstarch
• 125 ml                           Water
• ¼ cup                            sugar
• 2 cup                             kiwis[32 tsp, 500 ml]                         

 Method:

1. Blend cornstarch with a little water and set aside

2. In a saucepan, boil the water, sugar and kiwis for 5 minutes

3. Add the cornstarch and boil for 1 minutes

4. Run the blender, then a slide to get a smoother coulis