Hi guys this evening I bring up a recipe, not much an art history thing but I beleive that food is also an art and like many paintings that represent food, picnics etc. I think that chefs are also artists and instead of canvas they "paint" on plates.So here is a recipe from one of the tops culinary schools "The Cordon Bleu"
Recipe by the Cordon Bleu
Preparation time: 25 min.
Baking time: 20 min.
Number of muffins: 12
Ingredients:
150 gr bitter-sweet chocolate cut into small pieces
75 gr butter in room temperature, cut into cubes
2 cups cake flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 spoons cocoa powder
3 spoons super fine sugar
2 eggs
250 ml milk
1 spoon of orange peel
Frosting:
200 gr bitter-sweet chocolate cut into small pieces
60 gr butter in room temperature, cut into cubes
1 spoon orange liquor
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 210 °C
Baking pan with 12 cups, oiled.
Melt chocolate and butter in a bowl and put the bowl in a pot filled with hot water until they melt. Leave it to chill.
In a large bowl m
ix the sifted flours, cocoa powder and sugar together.
Make a hole in the center.
In another mixing bowl beat the eggs, pour in the milk and the orange peel and mix together. Pour the batter and the chocolate in the hole of the flours mix.
Combine it all, leave some lumps in the batter, so don't mix it too much.
Preparation time: 25 min.
Baking time: 20 min.
Number of muffins: 12
Ingredients:
150 gr bitter-sweet chocolate cut into small pieces
75 gr butter in room temperature, cut into cubes
2 cups cake flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 spoons cocoa powder
3 spoons super fine sugar
2 eggs
250 ml milk
1 spoon of orange peel
Frosting:
200 gr bitter-sweet chocolate cut into small pieces
60 gr butter in room temperature, cut into cubes
1 spoon orange liquor
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 210 °C
Baking pan with 12 cups, oiled.
Melt chocolate and butter in a bowl and put the bowl in a pot filled with hot water until they melt. Leave it to chill.
In a large bowl m
ix the sifted flours, cocoa powder and sugar together.Make a hole in the center.
In another mixing bowl beat the eggs, pour in the milk and the orange peel and mix together. Pour the batter and the chocolate in the hole of the flours mix.
Combine it all, leave some lumps in the batter, so don't mix it too much.
Transfer the muffins batter in the cups pan and fill 3/4 of every cup.
Put inside the oven and bake for 20 min.
Frosting:
Melt the chocolate and butter as before remove from heat add the orange liquor and leave to cool.
When the muffins are cooled spread the chocolate on top and serve with a strawberry or orange peel.
Enjoy
Put inside the oven and bake for 20 min.
Frosting:
Melt the chocolate and butter as before remove from heat add the orange liquor and leave to cool.
When the muffins are cooled spread the chocolate on top and serve with a strawberry or orange peel.
Enjoy
Gerrit Dou,The Extraction of Tooth, 1630-5, oil on wood, 32×26 cm, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
