Christmas Baking: Fun and Delicious Holiday Treats
By Mia Öhrn
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Prominent Swedish pastry chef Mia Öhrn offers thirty-eight of her amazingly creative and delicious recipes for cakes, cookies, candies, truffles, cupcakes, tarts, and breads that are tasty, colorful, fun, and decorative. Learn how to build and decorate the perfect gingerbread house, create marzipan elves, make toffee sticks, ginger-flavored chocolates, a gingerbread bowl, fig pie, and decadent chocolate cake with blood oranges. Aside from the sweets, Öhrn includes recipes for a fruit and nut bread, saffron bread, and poppy crisp bread.
Along with the recipes, the author provides helpful hints for choosing the best ingredients, gives you valuable baking tips and decorating ideas, and shows you how to properly preserve your finished creations. The beautiful photographs of the delightful treats and winter scenes by Ulrika Pousette make Christmas Baking a very special book filled with treats that everyone will love.
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Christmas Baking - Mia Öhrn
Create some variety by pouring half of the batter into toffee molds and the other half into small paper cones. Stick cocktail sticks into them, and you’ll have beautiful toffee lollipops.
⅓ cup (50 g) flaked or chopped almonds
⅘ cup (200 ml) whipping cream
⅘ cup (280 g) light corn syrup
⅘ cup (180 g) granulated sugar
1.Lightly crumble the almonds.
2.Bring the whipping cream, syrup, and sugar to a boil in a wide saucepan with a thick bottom. Lower to medium heat once the mixture has boiled, and simmer on medium heat until the toffee has reached 252°F (122°C) and passes the cold water caramel test (see below). Stir the mixture occasionally. Meanwhile, place toffee molds on a tray.
3.Remove the pan from heat and stir the almonds into the batter.
4.Spoon the toffee into the molds and allow to cool. If you want to make lollipops: fold small pieces of greaseproof paper into cones, staple them, place them in small glasses, and fill with the toffee batter. Press little cocktail sticks into the cones. Store in the refrigerator.
COLD WATER CARAMEL TEST
Do a cold water caramel test by dropping a little bit of the batter into a glass of ice-cold water. Wait a few seconds and then try to shape the dough into a ball. This allows you to check the consistency of the toffee once it has cooled. If the ball is too soft, you will need to boil the toffee a little bit longer.
Sweet, tangy, and perfectly chewy. You can vary this toffee by replacing the lingonberries with cranberries, strawberries, blueberries, currants, or any other berries you like.
about 30 toffees
⅘ cup (100 g) frozen and thawed lingonberries, or other berries
(or fresh when in season)
⅗ cup (150 ml) whipping cream
1 cup (225 g) granulated sugar
1 tbsp light corn syrup
neutral cooking oil for the baking dish 13
1.Place parchment paper on a 6 x 6 inch (15 x 15 cm) pan, and grease it with some cooking oil so that the toffee does not stick.
2.Blend the berries in a blender or a food processor. Mix the berries with whipping cream, granulated sugar, and syrup in a wide saucepan with a thick bottom.
3.Bring to a boil, then simmer over medium heat until the thermometer shows 252°F (122°C). Check the consistency with the cold water caramel test. Stir regularly. Pour the batter into the pan and allow to solidify.
4.Cut the toffee into square pieces and store at room temperature.
Homemade nougat is easier to make than you may think. Use this nougat as filling for the Mozart almond chocolates, or cut into pieces and enjoy as is.
7 oz (200 g) hazelnuts
⅗ cup (90 g) powdered sugar
7 oz (200 g) dark chocolate
1.Spread the nuts in a baking dish and roast them lightly in the center of the oven at 400°F