Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2008

Single Serving Egg Free Cookie Dough

This egg free cookie dough is perfect for one person who loves eating cookie dough, and doesn't want to worry about the raw eggs or make a huge batch of dough. Its also edible (and bake-able) by vegans. You can eat this as is, or add it to ice-cream / soy cream. Or bake it if you really want...

2 Tbsp white sugar (or any other sweetener, since it won't be baked you can use anything sweet)
2 Tbsp brown sugar
2 Tbsp "Butter"
2 Tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla (or almond or lemon, etc)
Pinch Salt
1/2 cup flour
If baking:
Pinch of baking soda

1.) Mix the wet ingredients and the sugar together in a soup bowl
2.) Add the flour, then mix until doughy.
3.) Add chocolate chips, oatmeal, raisins, orange peel, nuts, coco powder or whatever condiments you want.
4.) Eat. Or roll dough into small balls and add to ice-cream.

Makes enough for one person.

To bake:

5.) Break dough into 2-3 cookies.
6.) Put on an oiled pan.
7.) Bake at 350 degrees for 12 min. (I haven't eaten the baked version...so I don't know how good it is.)

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Cuban Bread

Cuban bread is a very good bread to eat with soups and for sandwiches. It is a dense bread with a hard crust and soft middle and a very delicious flavor. Its one of my favorite kinds of bread and something most people never have the pleasure of eating.

7 cups flour
1 cup water
1 packet of yeast
1 teaspoon salt
Splash of oil
2 tsp Sugar


  1. In a bowl mix warm water, yeast and sugar together until it is foamy.
  2. Add flour one cup at a time kneading until it is well mixed and you have a stiff dough that is not sticky.
  3. Rub the dough in oil and over the top of the bowl place a warm wet rag
  4. Let the dough rest in a warm place and rise until it is about twice its original size. I'd suggest letting the bread rise over night or make the dough in the morning and let it rise while you are away at work.
  5. After the first rise. On a flat baking sheet, sprinkle flour or cornmeal so the dough will not stick.
  6. Shape the dough into a loaf (I like a thick, square loaf for sandwich slices) and place the loaf on the baking sheet.
  7. Let the dough rise another 5 minutes
  8. In the oven place a pan with water in it on the bottom rack
  9. Place the flat baking sheet and loaf on the second rack.
  10. DO NOT PRE-HEAT THE OVEN! Put the bread and water into a cold oven, then turn it to 400 degrees
  11. Bake for 40-45 minutes.