The Academy of Pastry & Culinary Arts (APCA) one of the prime institutes in Asia for Bakery and Culinary courses is here to help you fight the lockdown and to make your stay at home, a tasty one. APCA has come up with a few home-friendly recipes that you can make with the use of basic ingredients, that would be available at such times in our home. Also, they are fairly easy to make, so, if you have kids at home, they can be involved in making the same too. Pancakes serve as a sweet treat for kids at breakfast too.
Here are a few recipes by Chef Alisha Faleiro, Academy of Pastry & Culinary Arts that you can try at home.
Sable viennois
This is a rich butter cookie originating from Vienna, Austria, that you can make at home.
Ingredients Quantity (Gr)
Butter 82% 225
Icing sugar 90
Egg whites 36
Flour 270
Salt 2
Vanilla essence 2 drops
Total 623
For 2.
Method:
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- Slowly add in egg whites and vanilla essence
- Sift flour and salt and gently fold into mixture
- Pipe and bake at 180°C 12mins, depending on size
Pancakes
A pancake is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from flour, eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface, often frying with oil or butter.
Ingredients Quantity (Gr)
Flour 250
Milk 250
Sugar 62.5
Eggs 2.5
Baking powder 8
Total 573
For 2.
Method:
- Whisk eggs & sugar till sugar dissolves
- Add in milk & mix
- Mix in the dry ingredients
- Warm up a pan, add some butter. Pour batter on the warm pan and cook till golden brown.
- Can be served along with honey, chocolate sauce, fresh cream and fruit.
