Piglet's Workshop is Up!

After hours of brainstorming, designing, planning, baking, and recipe-searching, Piglet's Workshop is finally up! Our first post is dedicated to the theme of baked goods. :D We recreated the following recipes:

Curry Puffs
Mango and Grape Cinnamon Pastries with Fresh Cream


Baked Apple Dumplings with sweet vanilla filling
THE MAKING OF....
All of our fresh ingredients used in these three recipes.
CURRY PUFFS
Preparing the chicken curry filling:
1.) Dice the chicken breast.
Cut the onions too.

2.) Boil potatoes, carrots, and other vegetables until soft. Remove from stove and dice.

3.) Put all the diced ingredients into a pan and add the curry powder of your choice. Let simmer for about 20 minutes.

4.) Prepare pastry dough. Begin by creaming butter and sugar.

5.) Knead the dough, getting as much air in as possible. The dough should look like this:

6.) Flatten the dough with a rolling pin and cut out small circles of dough using an inverted cup or wine glass. Add a spoonful of curry filling and close the pastry, using water to make sure the dough sticks at the edges.

7.) Arrange the curry puffs about one inch apart from each other on a baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees, until puffs are golden brown.
The finished curry puffs!
Inside:
YUM YUM!

MANGO GRAPE PASTRIES
1.) Unwrap a package of wonton wrappers or filo pastry dough and put each piece into a the mold of a muffin pan. Bake for 8-12 minutes, until edges are slightly browned.
2.) Prepare a filling by whipping a pint of heavy whipping cream. Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract, and confectioner's sugar to taste.
3.) When the dough has finished baking, remove from pan and begin adding the filling.
4.) Add chopped mangoes and grapes, and garnish as you like.

5.) We added confectioner's sugar for a snowy effect! =)

APPLE DUMPLINGS
This recipe consists of two main parts: Baking apples and pastry dough!

1.) Prepare the pastry dough by creaming butter and sugar.

2.) Core and peel apples, removing all seeds.

3.) Knead dough with rolling pin (or a substitute, such as a Gnarly Bear bottle =P) and flatten.
Cut out a square of dough and begin wrapping the peeled apples.
4.) Wrap the dough all around the apple, with the dough pieces all going the same direction. To make the dough stick together, brush with egg white.

The entire apple should be covered in dough when finished and ready to be baked.
5.) The apples are brushed lightly with beaten egg yolk, and put into the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. The heat is then turned down to 280 degrees and baked for another 30 minutes.

After 50 minutes of baking, take out the apple pastries.
6.) Serve warm, and drizzle each apple with maple syrup.

THE FINISHED RESULTS



The taste test?


Angela gives it a thumbs up for taste!

Phew, this took Angela and I a total of five hours!

- Candice