Experimental Kitchen : Apple and Cinnamon Golden Syrup Scroll

It has been a busy month and I am trying to make time for blogging. Coming up with 1 blog post per week as what I've planned for when I started this blog has been a challenge. Maintaining a blog around my family commitments, personal pursuit and aspirations isn't easy as I have so many exciting ideas that I want to make happen in the near future. 

Despite all that, today I would like to share one of my favourite scroll recipe, Apple and Cinnamon Golden Syrup Scroll.

It took me more than 2 hours 30 minutes to prepare the scroll but the taste was amazing! I made it twice and although the top of the scroll was slightly burnt because of my wonky oven, it was a very good recipe which I highly recommend.

My favourite yeast

Brushed melted butter on the dough

Sprinkled sugar and cinnamon mixture

Folding and rolling wasn't easy as excess filling would squirt out on both sides

I recommend putting more granny smith (because my household likes granny smith apples!) and it should be chopped finer than what I did 

See the sugar mixture+butter oozing out?

Folding and rolling takes twice before putting the granny smith filling. Then cut.

First tray

Second tray

My wonky oven

End result

xox

A Cup of Flat White

Since this is my first entry of the year, I thought I would start with an easy going post. 

I have always been a tea lover for as long as I could remember. I don't drink coffee because of a long standing belief of my elders that drinking coffee will make my nose bleed, because random nose bleed has always been my affliction since I was small.

When I was in pre-Uni, I tried drinking instant coffee. After a week of drinking it every morning, I stopped because it was causing me migraine every time after consuming it.

So that was it, and I never thought of having another cup again until last year when I walked past a coffee shop and the whiff of coffee was too irresistible. 

After some intense reading and research, we decided to buy a coffee machine and make our own coffee at home. That will definitely be a future blog post :)

Today I want to talk about flat white, which is a coffee beverage invented in Australia in the 1970s. For a more detailed description and origin of flat white, please visit this wikipedia entry and SecondCup does a very good job at graphic explanation of the differences between a flat white and other types of coffee beverages.

My cup of flat white

I have had two cups of flat white at the same cafe on two separate occasions and I think my first cup tasted much better than the second one. I don't particularly like it because even though I put sugar in it, the flavour was too strong for my liking. I definitely prefer my coffee sweet and with lots of milk and froth. 





References

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flat_white&oldid=645437004

SecondCup. http://www.secondcup.com/pdf/Flat_White/SCFW_Flat_white_en.pdf