Yeast Goods - Take One...

Hello everyone and welcome to Yeast Goods... the session that allows one and all to sample the yumminess of freshly baked bread and other products made from yeast.

Today, we made something called a beesting...

The picture above shows you the product in 3 different stages; stage one is on the furthest right just out of the oven whole... stage two is on the furthest left where the beesting is sliced into two and is piped with custard whilst the final product is in the middle.

The beesting has a sponge like cake texture with an almond sugar glaze topping. Looking at the way this product was made, it comes no where to creaming butter and sugar and adding eggs like you would a cake but is made using yeast..

Let me just tell you that this is one yummy yummy yummy yummy beesting...

Here is the recipe for the above:-

Ingredients A:

Bakers Flour = 250gms

Yeast = 50gms

Sugar = 10gms

Water = 200gms

Ingredients B:

Bakers Flour = 600gms

Butter, soften = 240gms

Milk Powder = 20gms

Sugar = 170gms

Egg = 220gms

Salt = 5gms

Method:

Mix ingredients A together and let it stand until doubled in size. Add ingredients B to A until developed. Scale a dough ball of 450gms each with the total quantity and leave to rest for 10minutes. Roll out and place into tins or trays and dock using a fork or a roller docker. Apply fillings or toppings and proof at 32degrees celcius. Bake at 210 degrees for about 20 - 25 minutes until golden brown in colour. Remove from oven and place onto cooling wires. When cold split in half and fill with custard.

Topping:

Butter = 150gms

Sugar = 250gms

Honey = 25gms

Cream = 30gms

Almond flakes = 150gms

Method:

Boil together butter, honey, sugar and cream. Remove from heat and then stir in the almonds. Cool and spread onto dough.