Hi guys, my name is Jackie and this week we're making baguette and finishing the danish pastries.
Lets start with the fillings for the danish pastries.
1. Pastry cream
- Add a teaspoon of vanilla essence into a pot of milk and heat on the stove.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk 2 egg yolks with sugar and corn starch until light yellow in color.
- Now pour in the boiling milk slowly into the egg mixture and whisk.
- Put the mixture back into the pot, heat on stove and whisk until thicken.
- Transfer the pastry cream into another bowl and put aside to cool.
2. Almond fillings
- Combine ground almond and sugar then add in egg and vanilla essence, mix well and set aside.
3. Prepare some garnish for the puff pastries.
- From top left to bottom : raisins, peaches, chopped walnuts, almond cream, almond flakes, blueberry jam and apple pie filling.
Now we prepare the danish pastries.
1. Take out the dough we did last week from the chiller,cut in half and roll into 1 cm thick.
2. Cut in half and trim the edges. Then, cut into 8 small squares.
3. Shape the squares into designs and add fillings.
- Pinwheeles with peach jam topping.
- Envelopes with peach topping and pastry cream.
- Pockets with blueberry jam.
- Bear claws with brown sugar filling and almond flakes garnish.
- Apple turnover with apple pie filling.
- Proof for one to one and a half hour or until they have doubled in size.
4. Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 15 minutes and voilà!
- We also added some of our own designs.
After that, we move onto the baguettes.1. Combine all dry ingredients and mix well for 1 minute.
2. Add in water and mix for 10 minutes or until dough becomes smooth.
- After that, do the windowpane test.
3. Next, roll the dough into a ball and place onto a baking tray covered with cling foil then proof for 1 hour.
4. After 1 hour, cut into half and divide into 5 small pieces.
5. Punch each piece and roll into long, thin shape then proof for 30 minutes.
6. After they have doubled in size, make 3 diagonal cuts on the surface of each. Sprinkle with some flour and place on baguette trays. Bake in the oven at 210°C for 30 minutes.
