Ensaimadas Nutella

I loved it so much (and to put it mildly) the Ensaimadas made ​​for the baking challenge that I once again a version with Nutella. Unanimously, it's even better! We really feel like biting into a donut while keeping the taste of the cake. And what about the famous hazelnut spread makes dramatically (for hips) Ensaimadas the most demanding? If you hesitate to get started, this time, I repeat, you will not regret it!

For 4 Ensaimadas Nutella

ingredients:

- 300g flour

- 1 teaspoon baking special bread baker & buns (5g)

- 115g of warm water

- 1 egg

- 60g caster sugar

- 1/2cc salt

- 1PR olive oil

- Nutella

- Icing sugar

preparation:

- Mix the flour, sugar, olive oil and salt in the bowl of your food processor (or by hand default).

- Sprinkle the yeast over the previous mixture.

- Pour warm water and beaten egg and knead for 10 minutes with the dough hook of the robot.

- Filming the bowl and cover with a cloth.

- Let rise 2 hours.

- Remove dough from bowl, degas.

- Divide the dough into four parts.

- On a well floured worktop, roll it a share in a long thin piece.

- Remove some Nutella in a container and move about 20 seconds in the microwave to soften it a bit.

- The spread with a spatula over the entire surface of the pulp.

- Roll the dough over itself into a long sausage.

- Wrap the roll on itself so snail.

- The place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

- Do the same with the other 3 parts.

- Cover with a clean cloth and let rise one hour.

-Preheat oven to 180 ° C.

- Bake for 15 minutes watching the cooking.

- Upon exiting the oven, let cool on a wire rack and sprinkle generously with icing sugar before serving.

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Small buns stuffed with beef

I shared it with you a few months ago, a pie revisited my way. If today's recipe is essentially the same, however, it presents a significant difference cooked in individual portions, it still enjoys more easily as a main dish (or entry for big eaters!) As for the filling, I opted for the more conventional possible: simple things are often the best, this recipe is no exception to the rule...

For 4 buns (individual size)

For the brioche crust:

ingredients:

- 300g flour

- 125g butter, softened

- 3 eggs + 1 yellow (for browning the bun)

- 15g sugar

- 5 g salt

- 1 bag of special yeast bread

preparation:

- Dissolve the yeast in warm water 2CS and let stand 15 minutes.

- In the bowl of your MAP or your robot drummer, mix the flour and yeast.

- Add 3 eggs, sugar and salt, and finally the butter.

- Knead the dough for a few minutes.

- Let stand in a bowl covered with a towel for an hour (preferably 2 hours).

For the stuffing beef:

ingredients:

- 300g ground beef (or 3 steaks 100g frozen or not)

- 3CS olive oil

- Breadcrumbs 3CS

- 2CS ketchup

- Salt and pepper

preparation:

- In a skillet with olive oil, cook beef (about 7/8 minutes over medium heat).

- Chop the meat (if, mixer).

- Mix with ketchup and bread crumbs.

- Season.

Assembling stuffed bun beef:

- Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

- Place the dough on a floured surface and separate into 4 equal parts.

- Lowering a first portion of dough into a round, wide enough to accommodate the dough in the center.

- Form a ball with a quarter of stuffing and place in the center of the brioche dough.

- Replace the edges of the dough as shown: an edge and one to the right, then the right again, and the last good shape and that the edges stick together.

- Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

- Brush the top with beaten egg yolk.

- Reiterating the other three units dough.

- Bake for 20 minutes.

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Peanut Marshmallow Cupcakes

Enter without waiting in the heart of the matter: cupcakes peanut butter dressed in a cream icing marshmallow and peanut butter. No need to draw you a picture, as well as being pleasing to the eye, these cupcakes are also terribly hungry!

For 14 cupcakes

ingredients:

For the cake:

- 125g butter, at room temperature
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla flavor
- 125g of peanut butter without added sugar (peanut butter)
- 120g flour
- 1 tsp yeast
- 1 pinch salt

For the icing:

- 250g butter at room temperature
- 150g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla flavor
- 125g of peanut butter with no added sugar
- 1 jar of Fluff (spread to Marshmallow) - 213g
- Sugar Confetti

preparation:

- Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

Dough cupcakes:

- Beat the butter until very soft.
- Add sugar, peanut butter.
- Add the eggs one by.
- Pour the vanilla flavor.
- Mix well.
- Stir in flour and yeast, several times to avoid lumps.
- Transfer to paper boxes placed in a muffin tin, up to half the height.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- At the exit of the oven and set aside on a rack to cool it.

Icing:

- Beat the butter to soften.
- Add the sugar and beat until creamy texture.
- Add the vanilla and the Fluff (the entire contents of the pot!) And whisk.
- Using a piping bag, icing on the cake.
- Sprinkle with sugar confetti.
- Serve immediately or refrigerate before serving.

Notes:

- Great success for this ultra tasty recipe, icing was particularly appreciated. And contrary to what one might think, it is not so stodgy!

- I discovered Cupcakes with Peanut Marshmallow Kitchen Trotter who asked me to test his box on the theme of USA. I followed the directions as is that I discovered (finally!) the Fluff. Sacred product, you really soak at least once a spoon, it's addictive limit! Only comment if there is one, the amount of icing, half doses enough!

Kitchen Trotter is a box that provides food each month with or without a subscription thematic box around a country with products sometimes very difficult to find. All for 25 euros shipping included. The first box have honored Mexico, the Caribbean, the United States, Turkey, Madagascar ...

My box may contain: the French's Yellow Mustard, mix Louisiana, a Mac & Cheese preparation, mashed pumpkin, the Marshmallow Fluff, confetti sugar Back & Decor (used on cupcakes), cookies Reese's balm Lip Smacker Coca Cola. In addition, four recipes to cook these products.

Western kitchen talking to me much more than the exotic cuisine, I was really charmed by the content! I expect this fall to make a pumpkin pie, it will be the season!

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Bread crust seeds

It was after fell for a similar organic bread in my shop that I wanted to achieve in my turn. I am now part of my usual bread recipe, I gave the chestnut flour because I really like it too, and I opted for a mixture of really nice seed that changes sesame and poppy classic.

For a loaf, about 1kg

ingredients:

- 1 egg

- water

- 1 tablespoon sugar

- 1 tablespoon oil

- 1.5 tsp salt

- 350g plain flour

- 100g chestnut flour

- 2 packets of yeast baking special breads

- Mix seed (oats, sunflower, squash and cereals)

preparation:

- Preheat oven to 240 ° C.

- Pour the egg in a measuring cup and fill with water up to 31 cl.

- Put in the tank robot egg + water mixture.

- Add the sugar, oil, salt, flour.

- Make a well in the top of the flour and pour the yeast.

- Knead a little before adding the mixture of CS 5 seeds.

- Using the dough hook, knead the dough for a good 10 minutes.

- Gather the dough into a ball and place in a bowl.

- Cover with a cloth and let rise for 2 hours and a half.

- Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

- Brush, brush with water and cover the top of the bread with seeds.

- Bake for 20 minutes by placing the grid in the first third of the oven (down).

- Let cool slightly before serving.

Notes:

- I will have a word to say, this is too good! (Especially with a good dose of chocolate spread ...)

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Crackers Chocolate

I cracked the recipe for chocolate crackers in the small library of chocolate Larousse but because of all the ingredients, I finally revisited my sauce for a really great result! They are small and very soft-crisp inside cakes, chocolate and rather pleasantly straightforward.

ingredients:

- 2 eggs
- 75 g sugar
- 75g brown sugar
- 90 g of dark chocolate
- 20 g banania
- 200 g flour
- 100 g ground almonds
- Icing sugar

preparation:

- Preheat oven to 175 ° C.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar until the mixture whitens.
- End Grate the chocolate and add the banania, flour and ground almonds.
- When the dough is well blended, form small balls and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Flatten each ball with the palm of the hand.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- When the cookies have cooled, sprinkle with icing sugar.

Notes:

- You can totally use unsweetened cocoa instead of Banania, but I thought it brought a nice little touch.

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Cake with purple

How do you say a UFO in the kitchen? Because obviously this cake with violet unlike anything we could have expected ... Before going into the oven, it was purple, which was altogether normal in view of the use of the syrup violet. However, it pops bicolor, purple and green ... it was not quite the program!

ingredients:

- 250g flour
- 3 eggs
- 180g sugar
- 150g butter
- 6cl violet syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon baking
- 1 pinch of salt

preparation:

- Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar until pale and thickened.
- Add the butter and syrup, mix well.
- Sift the flour and salt, mix again.
- Gently stir in the yeast.
- Pour into a buttered cake pan or covered with parchment paper.
- Bake for 50 minutes.

Notes:

- I really wanted to try a cake with purple, but I have not found anything similar on the Internet, violet would she be afraid?
- Beyond the green color that comes out of nowhere (probably heat has faded purple), this cake is really good, pleasantly scented with violets!
- A retry with a purple dye? And maybe the coconut, I suspect a combination that would work!

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Amaretti

For the purposes of a recipe, I had absolutely amaretti. Not having found in trade, I decided to make in myself. This is a recipe amaretti Amuse Bouche found in that makes me happy, these little almond cookies are truly a delight ...

ingredients:

- 2 egg whites
- 150g caster sugar
- 175g almond powder
- A few drops of almond extract
- Icing sugar

preparation:

- Preheat oven to 200 ° C.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff.
- Add the sugar and beat again for 2 mininutes.
- Add the almond powder with a spatula very gently.
- Using two tablespoons, shape small piles to roll in icing sugar.
- Put the amaretti and formed on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- Carefully loosen with a spatula from the oven and let cool on a rack.

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