Croissants

November 30, 2020 in Enriched Bread

These Croissants are something that I have been practising over the past few months. It has taken me several attempts to try and get the perfect Croissants and now I think I have finally baked a Croissants that you would find in a French Bakery! If you do want to make your own Croissants keep in mind it is a very lengthily process which can take 2-3 days. I get better results when I do it over 3 days but you can easily do it over 2 days.

Throughout my many attempts some tips that are really important are: To make sure your dough is chilled, this will prevent your butter from melting and oozing out of the dough and my other tip is to prove your Croissants for at least 3 hours, this will create that open amazing looking honeycomb structure in your Croissants.

GBBO Technical Challenge S7W6 - Fresh Herb Fougasse

January 21, 2018 in GBBO Technicals

The technical challenge for the botanical week on series 7 was to make a Fresh Herb Fougasse. A Fougasse is a french flatbread, decorated to resemble an ear of wheat. The difficult part of this challenge was to open up the cuts in the dough so that they do not close when the bread is baked.

Rosemary, Bacon and Parmesan Cheese Irish Soda Bread

June 20, 2017

I recently went to Dublin and tried soda bread for the first time and it tasted amazing! Unlike most types bread this bread uses bicarbonate soda instead of yeast as the rising agent. This works due to a chemical reaction involving the acidic buttermilk and the alkaline bicarbonate soda. The bicarbonate soda breaks down into carbon dioxide, which causes the bread to rise. So here is my take on a classic Irish Soda Bread recipe.