Friday, August 24, 2007

Cream puff and eclairs making

Today,the FNN student went to 201 keppel road for a baking course.We baked to items cream puff and eclairs.The name of the place is Baking Industry Training Centre(BITC).We went there by bus.
When we reached there, we were told to put our bag down, take our items and go to the kitchen.We had ourselves group in two or three.We were introduce to our instructor Khoo Kim Leng.we measured the margarine,water and flour.We were told to boil the margarine and water together.When the mixture boils we are suppose to put the flour in it. we had to keep on stirring to prevent our mixture from getting burnt. Next we put it into the cake mixing machine.they cake mixing machine was mixing up the mixture.we had to wait till the mixture was cold before putting the eggs in.After putting the eggs in,the mixture was very sticky.

Our instructor gave us the piping tip and piping paper.We had to pipe the puff and the eclairs.For the puff,we had to squeeze the piping mixture to formed a star shaped.And for the eclair we had to squeeze and drag it along to make a line.For piping of the puff we have to hold the piping nozzles straight and the eclairs to hold at an angle of 45* angle.We had to write our names on the baking tray.It was soon in the oven baking.After 20 minutes we took it out.

We had to cut the eclairs and puff at the side and pipe in the cream. After piping in the cream, our instructor had melted chocolate and were ready to put on the eclairs.We had to dumped the top side of it in the chocolate.After dumping them we had to place it in the fridge to harden up the chocolate.After that we packed it in our container and set off for home.It was an exciting and enjoying experience for all of us.

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