glove – Toidublogi

December 11 2023

Crispy gingerbread with chocolate filling

andrestover Bakes, Cookies cinnamon, ginger, glove 0

A different kind of gingerbread, which are crispy, but a little soft on the inside and with a chocolate filling.
Classical gingerbreads made in Estonia probably have their traditional origins in Germany. I used a similar flavoring as in traditional gingerbread, the ingredients and ratios of the ingredients have been changed.

Preparation time: 1.5 hours
Level: Easy
Quantity: about 60 cookies

Ingredients:
230 g room temperature butter
400 g wheat flour
350 g brown
2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
3 eggs
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
90 g dark sugar syrup
0.5 teaspoon of sea salt
1.5 teaspoons of ground ginger
2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
0.5 tsp ground cloves
1 teaspoon dried and ground orange peel
50 g dark chocolate pieces

For the glaze:
150 g of white chocolate
25 g of whipped cream

White sugar to cover the cookies

Preparation:

Beat the butter with sugar, syrup, and vanilla sugar until foamy, add the eggs and beat until smooth.
Add flour and baking powder, sea salt, and ground spices.
Shape the dough into balls about 2.5 cm in size, press flat, and place some chocolate chips in the middle of the dough disc with a teaspoon. Form the dough into a ball so that the chocolate remains inside the ball.
Roll the balls in sugar and place 15 balls on the baking sheet. Leave proper gaps between the balls, as the cookies will expand during baking.
Bake at 180 degrees C for 15 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool thoroughly before placing them on a wire rack to cool.
When the cookies have cooled, melt the white chocolate in the whipped cream on low heat, place the cookies on the work surface, and, using either a piping bag or a teaspoon, make stripes of glaze over the cookies.
Let the glaze set and place the cookies in an airtight container.
Ready!!

July 25 2023

Cucas – Colombian cookies

andrestover Bakes, Cookies cinnamon, Colombia, glove 0

Leydi Carolina, who studied and worked at Icosagen a few years ago, taught me how to make Colombian cookies. I slightly adapted this recipe. I added powdered cloves and cinnamon as flavorings, rather than boiling them in water and turning them into a paste as suggested in some recipes. I used brown cane sugar, which makes the cookies may be lighter, but I found that they are made in all kinds of shades. It may be worth using either brown sugar or dark muscavado sugar. The cookies came with an exotic flavor bouquet, which might slightly remind Estonians of gingerbread. Grated lemon and orange peel also added flavor. Carolina said that the cookies must be crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. If you make them a little thicker, that results in cookies like should be.

Preparation time: About 1 hour including baking
Level: Easy
Quantity: About 50 cookies

Ingredients:
500 g wheat flour
135 g of butter
250 g of brown cane sugar
2 ground cloves
0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs
0.5 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 tablespoon grated orange peel

Preparation:

Grate the peel of one lemon and one orange with a fine grater.
Mix flour, baking powder, egg, butter, sugar, ground cloves and cinnamon.
Add lemon and orange peel and mix the dough until smooth.
Sprinkle flour on the work surface and roll the dough into a disc about 5-6 mm thick.
Cut circles of about 10 cm in size from the dough and place them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
Bake for 10 minutes at 170 degrees C. After baking, put the cookies on a wire rack to cool and store them in an airtight container
Ready!!

October 23 2021

Garam masala

andrestover Spice mixes black cardamom, black cumin, cardamom, cilantro, cumin, fennel, fenugreek leaves, glove, rose petals 0

Garam Masala is one of the most classic and widespread spice mixes in South Asia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh. This seasoning blend can be simpler with fewer spices, but also may contain 10-15 ingredients. The mixture I am posting here is for me authentic because that is how the spice mix is recommended to prepare by Pushpesh Pant in her excellent book on Indian cuisine.

Ingredients:
1.5 teaspoons of cumin seeds
1 teaspoon black cardamom seeds
1 teaspoon black pepper
0.5 teaspoons of green cardamom pods
0.25 teaspoon coriander seeds
0.25 teaspoons of fennel seeds
0.25 teaspoon gloves
2 cinnamon sticks four to five cm long
0.25 teaspoon mace
0.25 teaspoon of rose petal leaves
0.25 teaspoon nutmeg
0.25 teaspoon ground ginger
0.25 teaspoons black cumin

Preparation:
Mix all the components together and grind in a coffee or spice grinder for 10-15 seconds until the mixture is even. Use the spice mix to flavor different Indian foods.
Ready !!