Butter Roll

Advent calendar should be another game expected by children during X’mas, shouldn’t it? A very special box is used to count down the day to X’MAS. People can open a window every day. And there is always a chocolate or sweetie inside. So, today is 1^st December that I believe lots of children can’t wait to open their advent calendar. There are only 24 days left to X’mas. Every family is very busy in preparation. Get X’mas tree out, assemble it, and decorate it. Let us count down to X’Mas together!

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 12~15 minutes
Recipe: 16 Butter Rolls

 Steps of Butter Roll

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.

(2) Add 210 ml milk with instant yeast and egg into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(*Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I leave 1 Table Spoon of egg for the brushing later.
**Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)

(3) Knead olive oil into the dough. Then, keep kneading the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.

(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(5) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Separate it to 2 equally.

(6) Get 1 dough. Roll it to a circle. The diameter is around 30 minutes

(7) Brush butter over the top. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces.

(8) Roll into the crossiant-like from the base of triangle

(9) Repeat step (6)~(8) for another dough. Then, Brush some egg and leave in the warm place to grow up. It takes around 40~60 minutes

(10) Send it into the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. Bake it around 12~15 minutes until the top turns golden.

I like this butter roll since I was in Taiwan. Finally, I got time to bake it. The taste is like what I ate. The bread absorbs the flavor of butter. Every bite you can enjoy it. If you are butter-lovers, Come and try this bread. And ENJOY IT!

Shortbread

Believe it or not! There are still two months for X’mas, but some shops start to sell X’mas gifts now. And you can see various kinds of shortbread gift boxes sold. I don’t eat biscuits a lot, however, I like shortbread. I like the enriched butter flavor. Like the movie, July & Julia, Is there anything better than butter? I think the answer is very obvious, NO!

In order not to eat too much, I don’t bake a lot every time. Hee… I need to find another way to limit my sugar consumption. But, do I care about it?

Recipe

 

Steps of Shortbread

(1) Place butter and sugar into a bowl. Whisk butter and sugar until it turns light and fluffy.

(2) Add vanilla extract and plain flour into the bowl. Mix well with the batter.

(3) Cover it and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes

(4) Roll it into a big flat, around 1 cm thick. Cut it by any kind of biscuit cutter.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: There is always left to be shaped that I just shape all of them into a flat again and cut as a finger-shape.)
(5) Place the cut dough on a baking tray. Send it into the pre-heat oven at 190C/375F/Gas 5. It takes around 15~20 minutes until it turns light golden brown.

 

Last time, I purchased lot of shortbread back when I went to Scotland. Now, I don’t need to buy it anymore. Because my homemade shortbread is so scrumptious :D Enjoy!!!