Healthy Breakfast Ideas

Fast Food for Breakfast?

Morning comes, the sun rising, have you open your eyes and start cooking?

Taking breakfast in the morning is the activity you should do. Many people think breakfast is not important and just waste their very rushing time. Some of them eating fast food for their breakfast, and the rest don't take any, even small portion of food. This is not a healthy lifestyle. Even though fast food contains a lot of fat, high in calorie and bad for your morning, but it's a better than not taking any breakfast.

Breakfast Ideas for Diet

If you one of them, then start changing your mindset. Breakfast is not a wasting time activity, it's the important thing you should do before begin your day. Don't you realize there so many benefits of eating breakfast? Not only give you energy for the whole day, but it will give you more nutrition, vitamins, and mineral so you can concentrated more whole day.

Are you questioning about healthy breakfast ideas? Is there any healthy and low calorie breakfast ideas you can take to maximize your energy for whole day? My suggestion is do not take too sugary and too fatty food like pancakes, waffles, scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. You can try oatmeal with berries or scrambled tofu with whole grain bread. But don't forget to use olive oil instead of butter.

Healthy Quick Breakfast

How if I don't have much time in the morning? I have to catch the train to go downtown and blah..blah.blah.. The answer is woke up earlier and start cooking an easy quick breakfast like this healthy egg breakfast recipes. Egg is high in protein but also cholesterol. My Tips, use only the egg white, the yolk contain high cholesterol for a little meal in the morning. The recipe will take less than 15 min. Scrambled the egg white using olive oil, then mix in vegetables like broccoli, onion, carrot, tomato. Last, sprinkle the pepper and eat it with whole-wheat toast.


That's simple and easy right? Enjoying Breakfast Enjoying Your day. Have a Morning Sunshine!

Sugar Cookie without Eggs

Sugar Cookies without Eggs

Have an allergic to eggs but craving for cookies?

Don't worry! Not all sugar cookies contains egg.
Lately, there are so many people allergic to eggs. Can you imagine your children really want cookies but after they eat cookies then suffering from allergic effect? This is so uncomfortable for them. And after many research and reinvention, sugar cookies without eggs now available with same delicate flavor!!

It's very simple also easy to make the safe cookies for an egg allergic person. I have sugar cookies recipe without eggs so you can make it at home instead of buying cookies at store and not sure whether it is free of egg or not.

Well, for making this recipe, you will need
2 cups of butter
1 3/4 cups of sugar
3 cups of low protein flour (cake flour or pastry flour)
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of salt

Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Add flour, baking soda, and salt in low speed. Shaped it, then bake it for 10 min at 170 degree C. Leave it cool in wire rack, then you can start eating it..
It's very easy ingredients right? and no eggs!

Kids are chocolate lovers! Don't worry, try this egg free chocolate chip cookies recipe.

No Eggs Chocolate Chips Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups of butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 cups of self raising flour
1 cups of chocolate chips

Optional:
1 tbs of honey
1 tbs vanilla extract

How to make egg free chocolate chip cookies recipe?
Beat the butter and sugar (also honey if you want it) until soft and creamy. Add vanilla extract and flour, mix in low speed. Last, mix the chocolate chips. After the ingredients are mix together, divide it for several pieces and rounded with your hand. Don't flatten the dough. Bake it for about 10 min at 170 degree Celcius.

Enjoy eating!

Say it with Cookies

Cookies Special Gift

The day will come in maybe a week. Your special person will have an important day in their life. You are in the middle of confusing, what will you give on his/her birthday? You want to give him/her a unique gift and nobody will give the same gift as you. There's a simple answer. Create your own special gift. And the second question rise, what gift should I make? Any gifts idea crossed your mind?

I suggest you should try Cookies Gift! 

First, it's made by your own hand, that means nobody will not have a same gift as yours. The cookies are pure your art creation and flavor. You can create whatever it shape and taste.

Second, because it's made by your hand, your heart will be delivered to them directly.

Third, making cookies is easy and simple. It take less time than searching at store to store to find a flawless and precious gift.

Simple Sugar Cookies Gift

You can make simple sugar cookies and decorate it with colorful sugar icing. To make a simple sugar cookies, you can check our easy sugar cookies recipe. For frosting sugar, you'll need 4 eggs white, 4 cups powdered sugar, 1 tbs vanilla extract, and food coloring. First of all, beat the eggs white until stiff. After that, slowly add the powdered sugar and keep mixing it. Third, add the vanilla extract and beat it until thick. And the last, add the food coloring. Draw your cookies!

Keep in mind, the sugar frosting must not contaminated with the air or it will dry the frosting!

a Simple Tasteful of Happines

Making cookies is not complicated as it seen. On my opinion, it's easier to make cookies than making cakes. There are no special treatment to make delicious cookies. All you have to do is make sure you have perfect ingredients. The ingredients greatly affect whatever food we are making. Perfect ingredient perfect flavor! You better chilled the ingredients first, especially the butter.

Decorated Simple Sugar Cookies

I have simple sugar cookies recipe. I made a lot of it and i think it's still the best simple sugar cookies recipe. To make sugar cookies, you'll need:

200 gr of butter
150 gr of powdered sugar (you can reduce the sugar up to 50gr)
2 medium egg yolks (this will soften the cookies instead of hard dry texture)
50 gr of powdered milk
350 gr of low protein flour such as cake flour or pastry flour

and the direction are:

Buttery Vanilla Sugar Cookies

1. Beat the butter and powdered sugar until soften (about 3-5 min)
2. Add eggs yolk once at a time
3. Add the dry ingredients (powdered milk & flour) and mix it in low speed.
4. Chilled the dough for about 1 hour
5. Roll the dough and shaped it with cookie cutter
6. Bake the cookies on 160 degrees Celcius for about 15 min
7. Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on wire racks.

Enjoy!

How to Make Pie Crust - Tips

How to Place Pie Crust in Pan

Perfect pastry is flaky, tender, delicate, and not crumbling. To make a good pastry, the cook should be quick and light handed. The flakiness of the crust caused by many particles of fat surrounded and separated by flour. Slow handling caused these particles to melt and blend with the flour to form a solid mass which is hard and tough after baking.

The basic ingredients for making pie crust (pastry) are fat, flour, and liquid. For perfect crust, all the ingredients must be cold, especially the butter! Even the flour must be refrigerated before mixing it and the butter at least have 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Type of fat used in making crust would affect the flavor and flakiness. You can use unsalted butter for the rich flavor and flakiness pie crust.

Mixing the ingredients by hand or you can use food processor. If you want to use food processor, make sure your butter still frozen and stick so the flour wouldn't absorb the water. Adding liquid gradually (4 to 6 tbs for 300gr of flour), so it will just moisten the dough. If you add too much water, the dough will have to be mixed with flour and becoming overworked and tough. If too little water added, the crust will crumbling.

Vanilla Tart Topped with Fresh Strawberry

Use low protein flour such as cakes flour to make the crust. You can substitute cake flour with all purpose flour and add 1 tbs of cornstarch.

The dough should be refrigerated for minimum 1 hour before baking it. Always use a pie weights if you don't want to have too much rising crust while baking.
Enjoy Baking!

What is Bread Flour?

Bread Flour

Gluten Made Bread's Bread

a product made from whole grain of wheat and higher in protein.  Higher protein means higher gluten contained in bread flour. The gluten will give elasticity to dough so the bread will have chewy and light bread. The gluten itself made the dough unite and make it easy to rise. The bread flour use for bread making, and contains more vitamin, protein, and mineral than white flour. The bread flour is not the only ingredients for making bread because it may add a certain heaviness and prevent the dough from rising than white flour.

Bread Flour Substitute
It is not possible to make bread without bread flour. You can't make bread with low protein flour, but you can substitute bread flour with all purpose flour and add a small amount of vital wheat gluten (pure protein / gluten). If you make bread with low protein flour, the dough will not rise and have crumbling texture

What Kind of Sugar Do You Know?

On cooking world the usage of sugar never been forgotten, especially on the dessert menu. As we have known, there are many kind of sugar that we are using on making dessert. There are confectioner sugar, granulated sugar, icing sugar, caster sugar, and also not forgetting, brown sugar. Some people might get confused on the usage of each kind of sugar.

Granulated sugar is a white refined sugar comes in a coarse crystal size. We used to call it table-sugar. We could use it to sweetened our tea, coffee, and other things, and also we can use it in cooking. Caster sugar is more fine sugar than granulated but not as fine as icing sugar. You can make caster sugar by grinding granulated sugar a few minutes until it become super-fine. You can create a beautiful cupcake with soft texture with this caster sugar.


What is powdered sugar?
Powdered sugar is same as confectioner sugar and same also as icing sugar. They are super very fine sugar with a powdery texture. This kind of sugar can dissolve quickly in liquid so that's why icing sugar uses to make buttercream and icing decorating.


What about brown sugar?
Brown sugar made from super fine white sugar combined with molasses. Brown sugar often use to baking such as making sugar cookies, cupcakes, cakes, and many things.

Enjoy!