[RECIPE] Strawberry Mille Feuille

I finally got wifi at my home so I can easily connect to internet via my lovely laptop and off course can easily post and update my blog. Yeay! 

So, I've made this super easy sweet treats, I think, since 2 months ago. I know... i know.... I'm such a lazy gurl LOL. 

This is super easy to make, I promise you and super delicious yet super fat. Oh yeah, I don't know why but I've been controlling my food a bit more strict lately. I meant not super strict until I eat like a vegan, but I reduce my meal's portion, eat less meat as possible, eat or drink low fat and less sugar stuff, and eat fruits and vegetable as much as I can, and off course no fast food in my list of meal. But if it's holiday I can't resist sweet treats LMAO ;)

I adapted this recipe from Nasi Lemak Lovers :D

This will make 2 servings

Ingredients 

1 sheet of puff pastry (8”x8”), thawed

200g whipping cream (dairy)

30g caster sugar

1/2tsp strawberry flavoured powder (optional, for colour)

Fresh strawberry (to taste)

Powdered sugar, for dusting

Steps

1. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 180C.

2. Place puff pastry sheet on the baking tray, using a fork, prick holes over the whole pastry to prevent it from puffing up while baking. Slice pastry sheet to half. Bake for 25mins or until golden brown. Remove from oven, wait till slightly cool, slice each sheet into 3 small rectangular.

At first, I only pricked holes like that, not much and the pastry became so big and thick. It became so puffy. So I pricked more holes, like this:

3. Add sugar and whipping cream in a mixing bowl, place this mixing bowl over a large mixing bowl that filled with ice water. Beat over high speed till soft peak.

4. Put your strawberry into the juicer as much as you want and blend it. Then, add to the whipped cream and continue to beat till stiff peak.

This is after I put in the strawberry juice. You can see there is a difference in the texture. But I don't use the strawberry powder so as you can see the colour is a bit plain.

5. To decorate, place one baked puff pastry on a serving plate, pipe cream on top and place some strawberry. Place second piece of baked puff pastry, pipe cream and place some strawberry. Then place third piece of baked puff pastry, dust with some powdered sugar then serve.

See? Look how easy to make this sweet treats. And I'm telling you that this pastry is hard to resist! So you better get up and get your body work baby ;) If u feel that 3 stacks of pastry is hell too high, you can just grab a pastry and dip it in the whipped cream and take a bite of fresh strawberry! That's hell of a yum!! 

This sweet treat is also flexible you can change the filling with whatever you want, lemon, chocolate, or kiwi. I ever made this with passion fruit juice, it's so delicious off course. Just do as you like :)

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Devina❤

[RECIPE] Green Tea Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Maker)

There are a lot of foods and drinks that you can make with the miraculous ingredient called "the green tea powder". You can make green tea latte, green tea ice cream, green tea cookies, green tea pudding, green tea pannacotta, green tea roll cake, mochi green tea, and other creation that you can think of. I made some of it and of course I'll post it later ;)

This miraculous ingredient is quite expensive. I bought it for IDR 30k for around 50 grams green tea powder if I'm not mistaken. I forgot to take a pict of it :( 

This time I made green tea ice cream. At first after I bought that powder I didn't really know what I was going to make and my dad was suggested to make ice cream, so i made it.

I'm a freak green tea lovers, yes yes yes. And I think that ice cream is the dish I like the most from green tea. I don't know why but everytime I am going to buy an ice cream, I usually buy the green tea flavor. I think I can't live without greentea desserts LOL.

I adapted the recipe from "Spoonful Blog" :) I put a little more of the matcha powder but didn't add more sugar so it's a bit bitter because a lot of matcha which I like it that way.

Result: 3/4 part filled of 20 x 20 cm container box

Ingredients: 

- 3 tablespoons green tea powder (matcha)

- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3 egg yolks (room temperature) 
- 600 ml milk
- 500 ml heavy cream

How to make it:
1. In a small bow, mix the green tea powder with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar.

2. In a separate bowl, mix together the egg yolks and remaining sugar. In this step, you have to be careful because the egg yolk and the sugar might not be able to fused perfectly. 

3. Pour the milk into a small pan and gently heat taking care not to let it boil (ideally the temperature of the milk should be 176 degrees F) and stir it continuously. 

4. Remove the milk from the heat and mix a few spoonfuls of the warm milk with the green tea powder and sugar in a small bowl. When you have a smooth paste, add it to the remaining milk in the pan, then gradually combine with the egg yolk mixture.

4. Return mixture to the stove and heat slowly over low heat (taking care to not let the mixture boil), until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat, strain through a fine sieve, and allow to cool completely.

5. Lightly whip the cream and then add it to the cold green tea-milk mixture.


6. Transfer the mixture to a large container and [chill for an hour or two in the refrigerator] and then put it in the freezer. 

7. As ice crystals start to form, remove, and mix well with a spoon (use a wooden spoon and stir very vigorously) to break them up and return the mixture to the freezer. 

8. Repeat this a few times as it freezes to ensure that the ice cream is smooth. This step is very important if you wanna have a perfect ice cream's texture. 

Poor me, I used cooking cream (I bought it wrongly, blame the shopkeeper because she said that it's the same with the cream that I used to buy ~.~ and I didn't really pay attention to the word "cooking cream" lol) and for the last step, I didn't do it like it used to be, I only stir it one time and it's already completely frozen. So the ice cream's texture is rough, not smooth and crystalized. 

It's just the different texture (which you can see from the the photo) from usual ice cream.  But, the taste is superrrrrrrrr delicious, and it really suits me well. I love it seriously, I just can't stop eat them everyday. 

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Devina❤