Showing posts with label baking therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking therapy. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2014

Lemon Bars

Keeping with my lemon themed baking (see my lemon yoghurt cake here!!), I decided to give these delicious lemon bars a go!!  They're based on the recipe from the Tartine Cookbook, but I saw the recipe on the Late Afternoon Blog and they looked so good I had to give them a go!!


Sometimes I have those days where I get it all wrong!!  I attempted these two nights ago after just getting my little baby to sleep.  After making a beautiful base and having the filling ready to go, I some how managed to burn the hell out of the base, set off the smoke alarm and wake my poor bubba!!   I didn't have enough butter left to try and re-bake the base so had to throw away my filling after hand squeezing so many lemons!! :( Baking fail!! 

My oven seems to be set to overdrive so today I tried again but made a few temperature tweaks.


It was worth the second try!!  They look impressive, but were actually quite easy to make.  They're very sweet, so I'll be having mine with coffee!!  They also keep in the fridge for 4 days.


Ingredients:
Crust 
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cups unsalted butter at room temp

Filling
1/2 cup all purpose flour
2 1/4 cups caster sugar
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (approx 5 large lemons)
6 large whole eggs
1 large egg yolk

Directions :
Pre-heat the oven to 175 Degrees Celsius and butter 9 by 13 inch pan.
To make the crust, sift the sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer. Add the flour and butter. Beat on low speed until you get a nice soft dough. Evenly spread the dough on the bottom of your buttered pan (I just patted it down with my fingers). 
Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown. Make sure the crust is cooked evenly.

While the crust bakes, prepare the filling. Sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix together. Add the lemon juice and a little bit of lemon zest. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. Next add all of the eggs and whisk well. 

When the crust is ready, pull out the oven rack keeping the pan on the rack and pour the filing directly into the hot pan. Drop the temp down to 150 Degrees Celcius  and bake for 25 minutes or until the filling is no longer wobbly. 
Let cool almost all the way through. Cut into rectangles, top with powdered sugar and serve. 

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Baking Therapy - Lemon Yoghurt Cake

So at 39.5 weeks pregnant, what better way to pass the time than to bake a delicious lemon yoghurt cake!!

This is a super easy cake to make and tastes delicious.  I've tried a few different recipes, and this one is the best!


While I seem to be getting rounder by the day, keeping busy has been a good distraction from the aches, pains and tiredness of the downward slope of the last trimester.







....and the plus side of being pregnant, is that I can sample the goods guilt free!!


Dress - Metalicus
Lipstick - NARS Dragon Girl 


Saturday, 11 January 2014

Baking Therapy!

Do you have a "flow" activity, that helps you to disconnect from the drudgery of everyday life and get caught up doing something fun?



Today my flow activity was....
Baking!!

I decided to make Tollhouse cookies!!  It was my first attempt, but they turned out pretty darn good!!



I followed this recipe, but added chopped and whole hazelnuts and crushed walnuts.  

Here are the results!!

Yellow tapas bowl from Country Road Home


Yellow picnic tin from Country Road Home


and here's how I enjoyed the splendour of my work... 









































Cake Stand by Donna Hay
Flippy Skirt by Country Road
Lipstick - Impassioned, by Mac

Thanks to Lachy Doley for the wonderful photos!!