Pan dulce – La Casa'l Forno

Posted on 9 November, 201616 May, 2018 by casalforno — Leave a comment

Classic Scones

This yummy breads are one of the most classic recipes of english tea time, also they are so easy to prepare…you can add raisins, dates, cinnamon, or whatever you like to make them more tasty 🙂

We need the following ingredients:

450 g of all purpose flour

a pinch of salt

3-4 tablespoons of sugar

250 ml of milk

2-3 teaspoons of baking powder

60 g of butter at room temperature

Lemon zest, raisins, cinnamon…(optional)

Step by step:

In a bowl, mix the sifted flour, salt and baking powder, then add the butter and start kneading with your hands until well mixed and you get a lumpy dough.
Add the sugar, lemon zest (or whatever you have chosen like raisins or cinnamon). make a hole in the middle and add the milk; start kneading now until you get a soft dough.
Sprinlke a bit of flour on the working table, and start flatten the dough with a rolling pin until you have a1 cm wide.
Shape the scones with the help of a rounded cutter, place the scones on the baking tray and brush them with milk.

Bake forabout 10-15 minutes (or until they are lightly brown on top) at 210-220º C
Normally they are served cut in half, together with jam and cream, but feel free to add whatever you like most: chocolate butter, more cream… 😉

And that´s it! easy and very tasty, enjoy!

Posted on 16 June, 201516 May, 2018 by casalforno — Leave a comment

Suikerbrood or Sugar Bread is a traditional bread recipe from Holland, you can find different versions but I think the most popular recipe is the one of the province of Friesland and the one with higher amount of sugar!

Normally they eat it during the breakfast spreading butter on top, so you can imagine the loads of energy you get for the rest of the day!

It´s very easy to make and very tasty, here I show you the recipe step by step:

Ingredients:

350 gr of flour

1 pinch of salt

1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon

1 sachet of baking powder

200 ml of milk

20 gr of white sugar

200 gr of pearl sugar

50 gr of butter

First sift the flour together with the sugar and the pinch of salt. Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk and add it to the flour mixture, knead well until you get a soft dough. Cut the butter into cubes and knead it into the dough until everything is blended. Cover the dough with a clean cloth and let it rest in a warm place for 20-30 minutes.

You can buy the pearl sugar, but in this case I just smashed 200 gr of sugar cubes until I got small pieces…fast and easy 🙂

After the dough has rested, knead in the sugar pieces and the cinnamon, knead for 5 minutes or until everything sticks inside of the dough. Let the dough rest again for about 10 minutes.

Place the dough in a greased pan and put it in the oven at 170 ºC during 30-35 minutes. Let it cool down for 10 minutes and unmold.

Simple and tasty!

Posted on 31 March, 201516 May, 2018 by casalforno — Leave a comment

Sweet bread crown for Easter

As Easter approaches, I can´t help imagine myself having breakfast in my parents’ house having a good piece of the traditional Easter brioche followed by another one, and another…before going out and see how my childhood village fills up with people getting ready to celebrate, making plans and enjoying the great atmosphere that precedes the celebrations.

IMG_20150329_183140 — Sweet bread crown for Easter

Pity that this year I cannot join, but that doesn´t mean that I won´t enjoy a good traditional sweet…or…more than one 😉

Last year, around this time, I published the typical Easter sweet bread that you can eat in Spain during Easter, you can find the recipe here.

This year I wanted to make something different, so I kind of came up with this crown of sweet bread based on the famous Swedish cinnamon rolls. Here I explain how I did it:

Ingredients for the dough:

2 tablespoons of butter cut into cubes

225 g of flour

Half a teaspoon of salt

1 sachet of baking powder

1 egg, whisked

125 ml of warm milk

Ingredients for the filling:

4 teaspoons of butter (room temperature)

2 tablespoons of cinnamon

50g of brown sugar

The zest of one lemon and the zest of one orange

1 grated or finely chopped apple

Sieve the flour together with the salt, then add the baking powder and the butter, mix well with the help of your hands, later add the egg and the warm milk and keep kneading until you get a smooth and elastic dough.

Leave the dough in a bowl for at least 40 minutes in a warm place covered with a clean cloth until the dough doubles in volume.

After that, knead again for a minute and stretch the dough with the help of a kitchen roller.

For the filling: mix the sugar and the butter and add the rest of the ingredients: cinnamon, lemon zest, orange zest and the grated apple.

IMG_20150329_165403 — Roll the dough to get a tube shape

Roll the dough gently untlil you have a tube shape. Now cut with a sharp knife into pieces (I got 12 pieces removing the edges). Place the rolls in a previously greased round mold and put it in the oven for about 25-30 minutes at 190ºC.

IMG_20150329_182953 — Brush it with some syrup or honey

Let cool down and brush it with some syrup or honey…done! just eat and enjoy.

This dessert is going to be sold for the cancer foundation in Belgium (Kom op tegen Kanker), so I´m glad that I helped to support this good cause.

Have a good week!

Tag: Pan dulce

Classic Scones

Suikerbrood (Sugarbread)

Sweet bread crown for Easter