Home made Phyllo dough and Turkish Borek

ingredients :

for dough :

• 4 cups of all purpose flour
• 4 t.spoon of melted butter or margarine
• 1 egg
• 1/2 t.spoon of salt
• 1 cup of hot water

 for the filling :  

• 8 t.spoons melted butter (to brush the dough)
• 16 oz ground beef
• 1 onion (chopped)

topping:

• 2 eggs
• 2 table spoons of plain yogurt
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  

1. Stew the ground beef until for 10-15 minutes

add chopped onion and cook covered another 10-15 minutes...

Put 4 cups of flour in a bowl, add water, egg, salt and melted butter

kneed until you get  a smooth and soft dough. Cover it and let stand for 30 minutes

Make the topping. Beat the eggs, yogurt, baking soda. Set aside.

divide the dough into 6 "balls"

* Note:  use corn starch instead of flour to roll the dough

roll each "ball" out as thin as you can

 if you want you can roll 2 balls at once. Roll 1st one in a size of serving plate,
sift starch over it and put the second rolled dough

and roll

don't worry, they won't stick!

you can see now, how thin are they...

brush the dough with the melted butter

put 1/6 of filling (in room temperature)

and roll as rolls

then, place the phyllo dough rolls in a round greased pan as you can see in a picture below
and spread the topping over the dough.

Bake 40-45 minutes or until golden brown

Cover it with foil and let stand for 10-15 minutes.
You can serve it now and enjoy !!!

Go'mma, Varaqi (Fried Dough pockets stuffed with meat)

Ingredients:

for dough:

•  1 cup milk (cold)
•  1 tea spoon salt
•  2-3 cups of all purpose flour

filling:

• 1 lb. ground beef 
• 1-2 onions (finely chopped)
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1/4 ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup cold water

In a bow mix salt and milk. Add flour and make a soft and nice dough. Then, cover and let rest for 15-20 minutes.

finely chop the onion

put into a bowl ground beef, chopped onion, salt,black pepper an water mix well.

 cut the dough into small pieces and make "balls" in a size of wallnuts

roll out each "ball" 5.5 inch (14 centimeters) diameter circle shape and spread 1 table spoon of filling on one half (as yo see in the picture below)...

and fold over to make a half circle. Pinch the edges. You can wet the edges to make sure they stick together.

fry the dough pockets in medium heated oil

turning occasionally until golden brown on all sides.

Serve hot and enjoy!

Cake "Spider man"

For this cake i used Pretend ice-cream cake

Fondant:  dry milk fondant

Draw Spiderman's face to a paper and cut it out

For the spider web I used melted chocolate chips

Homemade Dry milk Fondant

Ingredients:

• 160 grams dry milk
• 160 grams confectioner's sugar (icing sugar)
• 200 grams sweetened condensed milk
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice    

 Sift dry-milk and confectioner's sugar

  

add condensed milk and begin to mix and adding little by little lemon juice

knead until you get smooth and hard enough like a play dough "dough".
Now you can mix any color you want and wrap it with clear wrap or put into Ziploc bag immediately. 

If it gets hard microwave it 4-7 seconds.

Pretend "Ice-Cream" cake

Ingredients:

Cake batter: 

• 7 eggs
• 7 table spoons sugar
• 8 table spoons flour 

Frosting:

• 2 2/3 cups (600 ml.) heavy whipping cream
• 1 1/3 cups sugar or 1 can (14 oz - 396 gr.) sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven.
Butter or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray  a  9x2,71 inch round baking pan.

Separate egg whites and yolks. ( it's easy while eggs are cold)

In a mixing bowl, beat the egg whites until foamy.

 

when you turn the mixing bowl upside down, it should not move

Start adding the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, and continue to beat, on high speed, 

 

 until it holds very stiff and shiny peaks

add egg yolks and beat well

mix in the flour a tablespoon at a time and mixing well after each addition using the spatula

bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean

Wile the cake in the oven put the mixing bowl and mixer whisks to the freezer for 20-30 minutes.

Put sugar or sweetened condensed milk into Heavy whipping cream and mix it in a low speed
after 2 to 3 minutes mix it in high speed.

Whip until it holds peaks
Don't mix more longer.

let the cake to cool completely.

mark the cake side with frosting
(it'll help us to put the right layers to it's place)

cut the cake to 5 layers and frost every layer with whipped cream

put the rest of the frosting over the last layer and refrigerate for 30 minutes

you can decorate it as you like or just to cut it and enjoy with a cup of tea

this time i decorated it as a Spider man using the homemade dry- milk fondant

 Enjoy!!!