June 13, 2017
1:24 PM
by: Dolly Dy-Zulueta

Carrot Cupcakes with Stable Icing
(Chef Dorothy Ferreria for Cake Boss)

Chef Dorothy Ferreria's Carrot Cupcakes with Stable Icing

Chef Dorothy Ferreria’s Carrot Cupcakes with Stable Icing

CARROT cupcakes are delicious. Especially if you put an equally delightful icing on them. In a recent baking demonstration staged by Cake Boss bakeware and utensils at True Value Shangri-La Plaza, seasoned pastry chef and culinary teacher Chef Dorothy Ferreria showed how to bake up a great batch of Carrot Cupcakes and ice each one nicely.

For the carrot cupcakes:
1/2 cup corn oil
2 whole eggs
1/2 cup well-drained crushed pineapple
1 cup grated carrots
1 cup white sugar
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp. cinnamon powder
1/8 tsp. ground cloves or all spice
1 tsp. sifted baking soda
1/8 tsp. fine salt

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line Cake Boss Cupcake Pan with baking cups. Set aside.
2. Pour ingredients in the order given above into a Cake Boss Mixing Bowl. Mix with a Cake Boss Wire Whisk until blended.
3. Spoon cake batter into the prepared Cake Boss Cupcake Pan, filling them two-thirds full.
4. Bake for 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
5. Let cool before piping icing on them.

For the stable icing:
1-1/2 cups non-dairy pastry topping
2 Tbsps. natural cocoa powder
finely chopped nuts

1. Pour pastry topping into a Cake Boss Mixing Bowl.
2. Beat using an electric hand mixer until emulsified.
3. Transfer an adequate amount of prepared pastry topping into Cake Boss Pastry Bags fitted with the desired Cake Boss Decorating Tips.
4. Pipe out icing as desired over each cupcake and dust with cocoa.
5. Sprinkle surface with candy sprinkles for a dressed-up look.

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June 9, 2017
7:43 AM
by: Dolly Dy-Zulueta

Potato Chips in My Cookies
(Chef Dorothy Ferreria for Cake Boss)

Chef Dorothy Ferreria's Potato Chips in My Cookies

Chef Dorothy Ferreria’s Potato Chips in My Cookies

Chef Dorothy Ferreria with event host Steven Silva

Chef Dorothy Ferreria with event host Steven Silva

YOU’VE tried coating your chicken with potato chips for that unique crunch on the outside while the chicken is tender and juicy on the inside. But have you ever tried adding potato chips to your cookies? No? In the recent Cake Boss baking demonstration held at True Value Shangri-La Plaza, seasoned pastry chef and culinary teacher Chef Dorothy Ferreria showed that, yes, potato chips can be incorporated into cookies and that, yes, again, they are yummy.

Chef Dorothy made Potato Chips in My Cookies as one of her featured recipes. She used Cake Boss bakeware and utensils, which were uniquely designed by celebrity chef Buddy Valastro. These are the same functional designs that he uses on his show Cake Boss, which are now available in the Philippines.

Along with event host Steven Silva, himself a chef, Chef Dorothy captured the full attention of the audience with her interesting recipes.

3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup white sugar
1 whole egg
1-1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
60 gram salted potato chips, crushed

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F.
2. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, vanilla and sugar. Beat at medium speed until combined. Pour in egg and beat until blended. Add flour and mix on low speed until no trace of flour is visible. Add potato chips and beat only until well dispersed.
3. Using a Cake Boss Mechanical Cookie Scoop, form cookie dough into balls and arrange on Cake Boss Cookie Pan, using the markings on the pan as a guide.
4. Bake for 15 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Allow cookies to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to airtight food containers.

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June 3, 2017
2:28 PM
by: Dolly Dy-Zulueta

Puttanesca Pasta al Cartoccio
(Chef Jam Melchor for Carl Schmidt Sohn)

Puttanesca Pasta al Cartoccio

Puttanesca Pasta al Cartoccio

AFTER almost a year of not doing media event coverages as I personally took care of my husband Raff, who suffered a stroke middle of last year and is now recovering nicely, I attended the cooking demonstration organized by Carl Schmidt Sohn at True Value Shangri-La Plaza last May (2017).

Chef Jam Melchor

Chef Jam Melchor

Conducted by Chef Jam Melchor of Healthy Eats Manila, the cooking demo was the first in Carl Schmidt Sohn’s Solingia series of cooking demonstrations that made the rounds of True Value and True Home branches in Metro Manila. Chef Jam used products of Carl Schmidt Sohn, a line of premium German knives and kitchenware, in preparing three dishes—Free Range Chicken and Apple Salad, Puttanesca Pasta al Cartoccio, and Citrus Soy Marinated Steak. All three recipes I recently featured in my Weekend Chef online column in TV5’s www.interaksyon.com/lifestyle. But I would also like to share this pasta recipe with you because I find it light, healthy and delicious in its simplicity. It is also vegetarian or, shall I say vegan, so everyone can have a fill of it.

 

PUTTANESCA PASTA AL CARTOCCIO

2 Tbsps. olive oil
2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 Tbsp. chopped black olives
1/2 tsp. capers
1/4 cup white wine
1 cup tomato sauce
tomatoes, chopped and peeled
pasta noodles, cooked according to package direction
fresh basil leaves for garnish

1. Heat olive oil in a Carl Schimdt Sohn casserole. Add garlic. Sauté for a couple of minutes.
2. Add chopped black olives and capers.
3. Pour in wine and allow alcohol to cook and evaporate for an added dimension of flavor.
4. Add tomato sauce and some chopped and peeled tomatoes. Cook until sauce is thick.
5. Add cooked pasta and toss until fully coated with sauce.

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May 30, 2017
8:22 AM
by: Dolly Dy-Zulueta

Summer Butterfly Muffins
(The Maya Kitchen)

Summer Butterfly Muffins

Summer Butterfly Muffins

TAKE advantage of the remaining days of the summer season by bonding with the kids in the kitchen. You can make Summer Butterfly Muffins together because it is as easy as 1-2-3 to bake batches of it. All you need is mix up some batter, scoop them into muffin pans lined with fluted paper cups, bake them in the oven, cut off the top of the muffins and halve to make “butterfly wings,” spread some fudge frosting over them when they have cooled down to room temperature, and decorate with the muffin wings to make them look like butterflies.

Here’s how it is done, according to The Maya Kitchen:

For the muffins:
1 egg
2 Tbsps. vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
1 pack Maya Chocolate Hotcake Mix (200 grams)

For the fudge frosting:
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2/3 cup condensed milk
1 Tbsp. butter
confectioners’ sugar

1. Preheat oven to 375ºF. Line a 3-oz. muffin pan with paper cups. Set aside.
2. In a bowl, slightly beat egg; add in oil, water and hotcake mix. Mix batter mixture until blended. Pour about 1/4 cup batter into every paper-lined muffin hole.
3. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until done.
4. Cool and set side.
5. Prepare the frosting. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until thick. Set aside.
6. To assemble: Cut about 1/2-inch across from top of muffins and divide into two half circles. Set aside. Spread frosting on cut-up surface of muffins. Place cut-out half circles to form butterfly wings. Repeat procedure with the remaining muffins. Dust each butterfly cupcake with confectioners’ sugar.

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May 29, 2017
10:42 AM
by: Dolly Dy-Zulueta

Jelly Drink with Collagen, Anyone?

Jelly Vit Jelly Drinks

Jelly Vit Jelly Drinks

SEVERAL years ago, when I joined a group of Filipino journalists who were invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand-Philippines (TAT-Philippines) to go on a familiarization tour and food trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand, the group “discovered” something peculiar.

I was in the company of friends—Chef Heny Sison (food columnist of Philippine Star), Norma Chikiamco (then with Food Magazine but now columnist of Philippine Daily Inquirer), Joseph Tan Chee (then food editor of Manila Bulletin), Marlon Aldenese (then webmaster and now advertising manager of Cook Magazine), and Anson Yu (contributing writer of Appetite Magazine). I was handling Flavors Magazine back then. We were staying at Rarijinda Resort & Spa, which had a beautiful tropical forest-garden layout.

In one of our scheduled trips outside the hotel, we got back to the hotel after dinner. I have forgotten who, but one of those in the group had to drop by the 7-Eleven branch near the hotel to get some toiletries. The rest of us got down, as well, and curiously checked out the items on sale at 7-Eleven, although of course it was not on our itinerary. There, in the refrigerated section of 7-Eleven, we found a beverage that amused everyone of us. It had Glutathione as an ingredient, and it was the height of the Gluta craze in Manila, but it was confined to beauty products only. Never a drink. So someone bought and tried it to see how Glutathione tastes like. No such luck, though. It had no distinct taste that separated it from the rest of the drink. But we went back to the hotel amused and endlessly talking about it.

Apparently, it was a worldwide trend that got to Thailand first, because I recently found similarly curious beverages when I recently visited the 7-Eleven branch near my sister’s house in Mandaluyong, where my husband Raff and I are temporarily staying as he recovers from stroke. It is called Jelly Vit Jelly Drink, an imported drink that is distributed in the Philippines by Monde Nissin Corporation.

I found two variants of Jelly Vit Jelly Drink—Lychee Flavor with Collagen & Vitamin C; and Calamansi Flavor with Vitamins A, C & E—although when I checked on Google, there is apparently a third variant called Strawberry Flavor with L-Glutathione. The jelly drink is packaged in a 150ml. silver pouch with a resealable spout, each jelly drink has 60 kcalories.

Since the silver packaging prevents me from seeing through it and I got really curious as to how the drink really looks, so I cut off the spout of one and poured out the contents. It is one whole chunk of jelly, broken down only when you sip it through the spout, but the spout itself extends down to a scoop-like half-straw that does not scoop out all the jelly for you to enjoy unless you sip hard. The jelly drink, though, is quite good, so a little tweak on the packaging should do the trick.

And think of it—this jelly drink gives you a good amount of either Collagen, L-Glutathione, or Vitamins A, C & E.

Best enjoyed chilled!

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