Afternoon tea and football match

The fever of World Cup 2010 is still in the air, that's why today I invited some friends to come over for afternoon tea and for football match (Germany vs Serbia, which won by Serbia 0-1), so I prepared coffee (coffee “solong” from Banda Aceh given by my friend Dewi Kurniawati - thanks Dewi...!!!), tea and some juices and of course with some cakes.

For this event I made puff cream (kue sus), cinnamon rolls cookies, apple cake and brownies.

I already wrote the recipe of apple cake on my previous post.

For puff cream: boiled250 ml water with 125 gr butter and ½ spoon salt then add 150 gr flour and knead well, put it aside until cool. Add 4 eggs one by one, knead well.

For cream, boiled 200 ml milk with 75 gr sugar, 25 gr corn flour and 1/8 spoon salt until bubbled. Took out from fire then add 1 egg yolk, still well and put it again on the small fire until bubbled again, put it aside. When its cold, put into a spit plastic bag.

Put some puff dough in plastic spit bag and spit on tray covered butter with snail house shape, after all dough finish, bake it for about 25 minutes.

There are 2 ways to fill the cream in the puff, first, made a whole at the bottom of each puff and spit the cream inside or the second way, cut half round the puff in the middle with scissor then fill the cream inside.

For cinnamon rolls cookies, 125 ml milk in the pot put on top of small fire with 125 gr butter, not necessary until boiled, just until the butter melted, add 75 gr sugar, still until cold. Add 1 beaten egg and the mixture of 1 teaspoon yeast and 50 ml warm water.

Mix the milk mixture to 450 gr flour and knead well and leave it for 1 hour.

Roll dough into rectangle spread with butter, layer with brown sugar, cinnamon powder and raisins. Roll up and cut for about 3 cm and put on the tray covered with butter until all dough finish.

Bake for about 20 minutes or until the dough become golden brown. Better to take the cookies out from the tray while still hot because sometimes the melted brown sugar will stik on the tray but you should take the cookies out very carefully.

For brownies, place 125 gr butter and 200 gr dark chocolate (chopped) in a pan or heatproof bowl that stand over a pan of simmering water, stir until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove from the heat and add 250 gr sugar, 2 beaten eggs and 90 gr sour cream (you could substitute with yoghurt). Put the mixture aside.

Mix in one bowl, 185 gr flour, 30 gr cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda and 250 chopped roasted cashew nuts. Make a well in the center.

Pour the chocolate mixture in the well of flour mixture, using a wooden spoon and stir until well combined but do not overbeat.

Pour into cake tin covered with butter and baking paper or flour, bake for 35 minutes, just remember do not bake it until dry because brownies suppose to be a moist cake.

As usual, enjoy cooking and baking.

Kabul, 18 June 2010