November 21, 2009

My Collections of coffee sweets

Biscuit with Marshmallow Topping




Ingredients:-Bicuit


Butter         : 60gms

Brown sugar     : ½ cup(firmly packed)

Egg         : 1                  

Vanilla essence     : 1 teaspoon

All purpose flour: 1 ¼ cups

Marshmallow

Sugar        : 1 cup

Water        : 1 cup

Gelatine    : 1 ½ tablespoon

Vanilla        : 1 teaspoon

Coconut    : 1 cup

Apricot jam    : 1 cup

Procedures:
Biscuit- Cream butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla. Beat until well combined. Add sifted flour, mix to a firm dough. Roll out on lightly floured surface to 5mm ( ¼ inch) thickness. Cut out with 6cm fluted cutter. Bake on lightly greased trays in moderate oven about 12 minutes. Cool on trays.

Marshmallow: Place sugar and water in pan, sprinkle gelatin over, stir over lower heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil , reduce heat , simmer 7 minutes. When nearly cold, put into small basin of electric mixer. Beat for 1 minute, add vanilla , beat until thick and fluffy about 10 minutes. Place mixture into piping bag fitted with 1 cm ( ½ inch) plain tube. Pipe marshmallow in a circle around edge of biscuit. Put coconut in heavy pan. Stir with wooden spoon over moderate heat until light golden. Remove from pan Cool, and dip tops of biscuit in coconut, spoon a little jam into centers. Refrigerate. It is a delicious biscuit for kids.

November 08, 2009

coffee Sweets of kuwait



Some coffee Sweets familiar Kuwait

November 05, 2009

USEFUL FACTS AND FIGURES

USEFUL FACTS AND FIGURES FOR BAKING
OVEN TEMPERATURES

The Table below gives recommented equilents

CentigradeFahrenheitGas Mark
Very cool110225¼

120250½
Cool or Slow1402751

1503002
Warm1603253
Moderate1803504
Moderately hot1903755
Fairly hot2004006
Hot2204257
Very hot2304508

2404759
BritishAmericanAustralian
1 teaspoon1teaspoon1teaspoon
1tablespoon1tablespoon1tablespoon
2tablespoons3tablespoons2tablespoons
3 ½ tablespoons4tablespoons3tablespoons
4 tablespoons5tablespoons3 ½ tablespoons

Notes for American and Australian users

In America the 8-oz measuring cup is used cup is used. In Australia metric measures are now used in conjunction with the standard 250-ml measuring cup. The imperial pint, used in Britain and Australia, is 20 fl oz, while the American pint is 16 fl oz. It is important to remember that the Australian tablespoon differs from both the British and American tablespoons; the table above gives a comparison. The British standard tablespoon holds 17.7ml, the American 14.2 ml, and the Australian 20 ml. A teaspoon holds approximately 5 ml in all countries.