Glossary
Cool immediately-- Allow baked cakes or hot sauces to come to lower temperature over ice water.
Batter (dough)-- Mixture of lour, butter, eggs, etc is called batter (dough when it is hard enough to handle with hands) before baked or cooked.
Cream-- Beat butter or cheese with wire whisk until light and fluffy.
Beat until stiff peaks form-- Beat egg whites or heavy cream until stiff peaks form when wire whisk is raised.
Dust with flour-- When rolling out dough or pouring batter into baking pan, dust pastry board, rolling pin or pan with flour to prevent from sticking. Don't flour too much, if you do, surface of cakes or cookies will become tough and will not taste good.
Rest-- After making dough for pies or cookies, place it in refrigerator to rest for 15 to 30 minutes in order to allow all ingredients blend well.
Melt or warm over hot water-- Boil water in large saucepan and place bowl with chocolate, butter or other food over boiling water.
Batter (dough)-- Mixture of lour, butter, eggs, etc is called batter (dough when it is hard enough to handle with hands) before baked or cooked.
Cream-- Beat butter or cheese with wire whisk until light and fluffy.
Beat until stiff peaks form-- Beat egg whites or heavy cream until stiff peaks form when wire whisk is raised.
Dust with flour-- When rolling out dough or pouring batter into baking pan, dust pastry board, rolling pin or pan with flour to prevent from sticking. Don't flour too much, if you do, surface of cakes or cookies will become tough and will not taste good.
Rest-- After making dough for pies or cookies, place it in refrigerator to rest for 15 to 30 minutes in order to allow all ingredients blend well.
Melt or warm over hot water-- Boil water in large saucepan and place bowl with chocolate, butter or other food over boiling water.
Black Forest

Sponge Mixture:
Serves 6:
3 Large Eggs
75g Castor Sugar
50g Plain Flour
1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
1 tablespoon Oil
To Finish:
1 can black cherries
3 tablespoons Kirsch
300ml Double Cream, whipped
Chocolate Curls-Shave thin layers from a block of chocolate, using a potato peeler.
1) Place the eggs and sugar in a bowl and whisk over a pan of simmering water until thick and mousse-like.
2) Sift the flour with the cocoa and fold in, then fold in the oil.
3) Turn into a lined and greased 20cm-8 inch round cake tin. Bake in a preheated moderately hot oven, 190°C for 30 minutes to 35 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
4) Drain the cherries.
5) Slice the cake in half horizontally and sprinkle both layers aith Kirsch.
6) Place one layer on a plate, and sandwich the layers with some whipped .cream
7) Spread the cherries in the cetre and top with another layer.
8) Spread the remaining whipped cream over the top and sides of the cake.
9) Lightly press the chocolate curls into the cream around the edge of the cake.
10) Pipe cream rosettes around the top, lay the chocolate curls over the top of the cake, decorate with cherries.
11) Dust lightly with confectioners' sugar. Transfer to a serving plate. Serve.
Profiteroles(Puff pastry) with Vanilla Ice Cream

Choux Pastry:
Serves 8:
50g Butter or Margarine
150ml Water
65g Sifted Plain Flour
2 Eggs, beaten
1) Melt the fat in a large pan, add the water and bring to the boil.
2) Add the flour all at once and beat until the mixture forms a mass that leaves the sides of the pan and moves freely with the wooden spoon. Cool slightly, then add the eggs a little at atime, beating well after each egg is added. The finished paste should be thick, smooth and shiny.
3) Put the mixture into a piping bag, fitted with a plain round/star nozzle, and pipe small mounds on a dampened baking sheet.
4) Bake in a preheated hotoven, 220°C for 10 minutes,then lower the heat to 190°C, and bake for a further 20 to 25 minutes until golden. The profiteroles should have doubled in size.
5) Make a slit in the side of each bun with a small sharp knife. Cool on a wire rack.
6) Fill the bottom with a scoop of ice cream. Or with whipped cream, replace the top and gently press the profiterole together again. Dust the top lightly with confectioner's sugar. Or pour a little with melted chocolate sauce on top.
Vanilla Ice Cream:
2 Eggs
2 Egg yolks
75g castor
450ml Single Cream
2-3 drops of vanilla essence
284ml double cream, whipped
1) Mix the eggs egg yolks and sugar together.
2) Bring the single cream gently to the boil and por onto the egg mixture, stirring vigorously.
3) Strain, then stir in the vanilla essence. Leave to cool, then fold in the whipped cream.
4) Pour into a rigid freezerproof container. Cover, seal and freeze for 1 hour. Remove and stir well, then re-freeze until firm.
5) Transfer to the refrigerator 20 minutes before serving to soften.
6) Scoop into chilled glasses and serve.
Variations of Ice cream:
Chocolate: Break 250g plain chocolate into pieces and melt with the single cream.
Praline: Place 50g blanched almonds and 50g castor sugar in a pan and heat gently until the sugar melts. Cook, stirring, until nut brown. Turn onto an oiled baking sheet and leave until hard. Crush with a rolling pin and add to the custard with a double cream.
Coffee: Dissolve 2 tablespoons instant coffee powder in 2 tablespoons bioling water, cool and add the custard with the double cream.
Ginger: Finely chop 125g preserved stem ginger. Add to the eggs and sugar. Add 2 tablespoons of the ginger syrup to the custard with the double cream.





