For what seemed like years after 15 months of an intense course here I am, on the adults world ready for my first job! I'm scared as sh*t but that's something for later.

The bakery world seems promising, good looking, tasty and overall amazing! It is, looking from the outside, but when you're involved in it 24/7 is not as great as it looks. To get to the level you want you need time to test out your capacities, to make your skills grow stronger. I initially had no idea about the majority of the Pastry terms, what it takes to bake a cake other than the usual homemade ones, the right amount of ingredients and the overall process of administrating a bakery. It's not sweet, oh it's not.

They don't look much like chocolate cookies in this picture but I assure they are so delicious and taste like chocolate!

Ingredients:

250g sugar

250g butter

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract/vanilla bean 

400g all purpose flower

100g cocoa powder

Preparation:

Preheat the oven at 190º/200ºC

1- In a bowl put the butter and sugar and melt everything with your hands until have a nice homogeneous paste;

2- Add the eggs and the vanilla bean/extract and mix everything together.

3- In a separated bowl mix the flour and the cocoa powder. 

4- Add little by little to the mixture till have a nice dough  .

5- Wrap the dough in film and let it on the fridge for about 30-60 minutes till it's firmer.

6- Dust with flower your work table and start extending the dough.

7- Cut the cookies in your desired shape.

8- Let it cook for about 7-10 minutes.

It's a delicious recipe and addicting! Keep in mind the colour of your cookies may change according to the cocoa powder you use, they can get darker or lighter than the ones on the picture.  

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do and send me pictures on Facebook or Twitter! :) 

Thanks for reading,

The picture above shows you my dinner of the other night, last tuesday i made this kind of bread called Tiger bread which is really pretty! And tasty to be honest ;) 

Wanna know how to make some Tiger Bread?! Here's the recipe:

Dough:

Flour T55 - 1 kg

Water (60%) - 600g

Biological yeast (5%) - 50g

Salt (2%) - 20g

Improver (1%) (i'm not sure if it's the right word but it's something you add to improve the flour strenght) - 10g 

Powdered Milk (2%) - 20g

Margarine for Dough (3%) - 30g

  Sugar (2%) - 20g

Mix the improver, salt, powdered milk and sugar with the flour.

Undo the yeast, with your hands, to a plastic bowl.

Programme the mixer to low speed - 3 minutes

Then increase the speed to max - 15 minutes

Add 3/4 of the water to the flour and start to knead.

Add the yeast when there's not loose flour.

Add more water.

At the middle of the knead add the margarine.

Use the necessary water till achieve the desired consistency.

After it's over you shall powder with flour and let it rest for about 20 minutes. 

The recipe continuous...

After the initial fermentation you shall put flour at the table and destribute the dough in desired portions.

Roll them into themselves, this makes not sense but try to make a circular motion till your ball is completely smooth on the top.

Topping:

Rice flour - 200g

Water - 200g

Biological yeast - 80g

Salt - 50g

Oil - 250g

Sugar - 20 g

Preparation:

Undo the yeast with part of the water.

Add the oil and the yeast to the flour and mix it till it's even. 

Cover it with a cling film till you need to use it.  

After the balls are completly done brush them on the top, with the previous made topping - 2 layers.

Let it rest for about 40 minutes.

After that put it on the oven pre-heated at 190º C.

After they're cooked let them cool.

And you can eat them with a lot of other thing inside! I choose a steak but cheese works well or another thing you might like!

So this is my first recipe and i hope to share some more in the future :)

Thanks for reading,