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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Finding Your Perfect Food Processor???
The ultimate kitchen assistant, the Cuisinart food processor has revolutionized attitudes about cooking. The simple combination of a stainless-steel chopping blade and a wide-based, mixing bowl opens shortcuts for cooks to prepare complicated meals quickly. A food processor not only cuts down on food preparation time, but opens up a world of innovative recipe and meal ideas, from appetizers to dessert. And no one does food processors better than the original: Cuisinart.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Pink Meringue Roses
Pink Meringue Roses
4 large egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon meringue powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or other extract you'd like to use
Pink Food Color
Meringue
Using a whisk combine egg whites, pinch of salt, sugar and meringue powder in a heat proof bowl, best to us is tempered glass or your stainless steel mixer bowl. Set the bowl over the pan with simmering water. Whisking constantly, until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot to the touch, about 5 minutes or so.
Transfer the bowl to your electric mixers, using wire attachment, beat the mixture gradually from low to high, until stiff peaks are formed.About 8-10 minutes. Add the flavorings and mix for a minute or so to incorporate extract.
Add a touch of pink food color and beat until no streaks are visible..
Preheat oven to 175 degrees.
Piping Roses
Cut up small parchment squares about 2inches x 2inches.
Large piping tip WILTON 125
Wilton Flower Nail Decorating Tool #7
piping bag
Easy to follow tutorial on how to make ribbon roses can be found here
In the tutorial they use a round tip to pipe the cone shape onto the flower nail. I use a petal tip to make the cone like shape.It doesn't have to be 100% perfect as it will get covered with the rose petal anyway.
I use parchment squares for this project, once I have piped rose I place it directly onto the baking sheet. I find parchment paper better choice for baking projects.
It takes practice, don't get discourages if it doesn't work first time around. Believe me when I first tried making these roses I had no clue how to do it. Try to make somewhat similar size of roses.
When making a significantly different sizes, make sure you bake smaller ones and large ones on separate baking sheets as baking time will vary with different size of roses.
Baking
175F
Once you have all the meringue used up you can bake the roses .
I baked 2 sheets at a time, at 175F, for about 2.5 hours, or until dried through. Baking times vary depending on the size of the piped meringue designs.
Once baked, let cool completely in the oven.
credit to http://www.hanielas.com
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