#newbaker

 i have photos and a few video clips:

Getting ready to prepare dough for "Bloomer” so i can get started on “Souffle Pancake” while “Bloomer” is proving :).

Salt on one side, yeast on the other, olive oil over.

Cleaned the counter top so I can work the dough! Phew.

Mixing? dough with my hand!

Little blob of casualty.

Whoo. Dough forming. Sticky and wet but Paul says this is ok.

Oil on counter to knead dough. Actually it was so sticky that it was clumping onto my fingers like crazy to a point where I could not see my hands nor move them around.. like boxing gloves. So I added more flour... which I think I made a mistake of.. b/c it felt a bit dry the second time I kneaded it.

Dough back in the bowl and covered for proving.

Now preparing to make “Souffle Pancake”! Yay!!

WARNING: Loud hand mixer whisking video.

Beating egg whites to make meringue. Mmmmmm...

Dough is proving! My baby :).

“Souffle Pancake” dough put onto pan to cook! mmmmmHHmmmm looks sooo FLUFFYYY

Flippin the “S.P”. You can see the jiggles. I should have made them higher though. It is not AS jiggly.

Whoo!!! It’s DONE!!!!!! Not bad for 2nd time I think..

Sharin~

I forgot to take photo when proving was done. It looked fluffy and round~ and it was pulling SO satisfyingly!!

Look at video below. 

Whoo that stretchy goodness. Time to knock all the air out.

Air has been knocked out and I tried my best to kneaded learning technique from Paul. Time to prove again in this shape. As you can see, it looks a little clumpy.. I think it is because I added too much flour before thinking dough was too wet and not it got very dry... :[

Recipe says to prove it in a plastic bag but I don’t have any bag big enough to not let the dough touch the bag when it rises so I proved it in the oven. Heat was not on at all.

Proved! Yay! but it proved side ways, oops. Lol! I wish Paul can tell me what I did wrong @.@.

Sprayed water and put some flour! It felt really soft and bouncy :).

Put slashes with serrated knife but maybe it was a bad idea b/c slashes look really lumpy! :( Eeek..

Anyway! Baking now!!

WHOOOO!!! WHAT!!!!!!!! My first bread!! Baked! Crazy!! It’s REALLL!!!

Dusted off some cooked flour on the outside. Keke. Cooling now.

Cutting! Yeah!!

Annddddd ... there it is :) a filtered photo b/c I realized my cutting board doesn’t look too nice. And my dinosaurs here too :) Tada!!

souffle pancake

recipe video: https://youtu.be/pQGJ7o4oFe0

tools: large bowl, big glass bowl, 2-3 small bowls, large wooden spoon, silicone spatula, large pan, large circular cookie sheet for covering, baking scale, flat spatula, stove, timer.

replaced ingredients: oatmeal i.o. whole milk, confection sugar i.o. regular sugar.

british bloomer

recipe video: https://youtu.be/tp5H87Su1jE recipe text: https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/paul-hollywood-swhitebloomerbread.html

tools used: clean counter top, large metal bowl, oven, circular cookie sheet for covering, baking scale, oven mittens, serrated knife, cutting board, cooling rack, towel, oven,  timer.

I didn’t have any tools, I was scared, doubting myself b/c I really wanted to do this but I was crippled with fear that this is one of the things I say I will do but never get around in doing it, causing me to just feel absolutely horrible at myself.  Anyway, had to get handmixer, mixing bowl, cooling racks, baking trays, baking scale, etc-- things I had no idea that I needed. I thought I can only get the things on the recipe but nooooo I hadn’t had any basics. My husband and I also had to figure out how to melt chocolate, how to use hand mixer, how to use scale, ETC..

So I can’t believe I actually. ACTUALLY baked!!! Crazy of me and I’m amazed by it. It’s magic! Also, it’s hard to roll the cake than it seems... Hehe..

Also, rolling…….. I thought it was easy.. watching from #gbbo…

It does NOT work so well.

It is not easy. It cracked like CRAZY as you can see.. I wanted to throw everything away but nope. I just kept going.. so I can at least eat them in tacked piece and achieve something by sticking to the end! it was a challenge for me. i think i need fluffier texture because my edges were pretty crispy— which, cracked of course. i forgot to use piping bag so i drizzled with spoon! looks like a mummy.

Ha! but I am extremely proud of myself. It tasted GOOD and even my boss at work gave me A++ and that means a lot b/c I regard her taste level very high! i have videos i took but didn’t edit them together. perhaps in the future!