Ham And Mixed Herbs Bun

HAM AND MIXED HERBS BUN
(can make 15 buns or more)

Ingredient:

300g High Protein Flour / Bread Flour
70g casto sugar
¼ tsp salt, 5g instant dry yeast
1 egg, 110ml water

50g Butter

10 pieces of ham, cut each into half
Few slice of cheese, optional ( I have make 2 different batch, one with cheese, one without)
Few spoonful of mayonnaise, some Italian mixed herbs

Method :

Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl (except butter) and beat into dough. (for me, I use the most manual way… by hand knead). Add in butter and continue to beat until smooth and elastic
Cover the dough with a damp towel and rest for 1 hour.
Divide the dough in 15 portions or more... and shape into balls. Rest for 10 minutes.
Roll out dough, put a slice of ham (a small slice of cut cheese, optional) on top and fold it up. After the fold, just roll it around and form a round shape. If you want the ham to be seen. Cut the dough into half after all the folding and rolling and place it on the muffin tray.
Arrange the dough onto a greasing muffin pan/tray and cover with damp towel and let it rest / proof for another 45minutes or until it double in size.
Before baking it, spread some of the mayonnaise on top and sprinkle the mixed herbs around it.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 deg. Cel. For 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the tray and ready to serve.

Lemon Bars/Square

Another new experience of baking though the process is not that difficult, it only takes a bit of time. In actual fact, never know this type of dessert exist, as I have never tried Lemon Bar/Slice/Square before. My cousin just back from Las Vegas asking me whether I know how to make it. I was like, is it a Pie? So the next best thing to do is Surf and as I usually will says "the power of Googling" hehehe... I have found quite a few recipe and of cos, I will try to use the most easiest method. As for making the crust, I use the cake maker to blend everything in and guess what, I kinda make a mess around my counter, the flour is all around my counter.. hahaha... i should have use the cake maker with the cover so the flour won't be flying around my counter. A lesson to learn, lazy makes you "clean" off. Have a try on this recipe. It might surprise you. The fragrant of the lemon is so strong, taking one bite and the fragrant says in ur mouth. Hmm..mmpphhh...

Ingredient

Crust:

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup icing sugar

1/8 tsp salt

4 ounces (1 stick or 113gm) unsalted butter, cold and cut into 1/2 inch pieces

Filling:

2 large eggs

3/4 cup castor sugar (reduce the sugar if you want it less sweet)

2 tbsp all purpose flour

1/8 tsp salt

2 tsp finely grated lemon zest

1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

Preheat oven to 350F (175 deg. cel.).

Butter and line an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper.

To make crust:

1. Combine flour, icing sugar and salt in the cake maker.
2. Add butter and pulse until the mixture is pebbly.
3. Press evenly into the bottom of your prepared pan.
4. Bake until lightly golden, about 18-20 minutes. Set aside crust. To make filling:1. In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, flour and salt.
2. Whisk in lemon zest and juice until well combined.
3. Pour over crust (it's okay if crust is still hot). Bake until filling is just set, about 15 to 18 minutes.
4. Cool completely before serving. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.