Chocolate Almond Pretzel Recipe, Originally from Germany (Germany Cake)

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Pretzel is a type of bread that comes from Germany. Crossed helical shape and is made of alloy flour, sugar, yeast, water, flour and sprinkled with sugar and salt. There are two types of pretzels are currently sold in the market. Pretzel with hard texture and soft pretzels with texture. The shape also varies, there is a knot-shaped round, there is also a form of straight or stick. Recently, pretzels  were developed in many variety of taste, even in Jakarta is becoming a popular fine dining menu of culinary enthusiasts. There are types of chocolate almonds pretzels, chocolate pretzels flush, pretzels cheese. For now, I'll try to share a recipe for almond chocolate pretzels, the following recipe:

 

 Ingredients:

Yeast Sponge:

• 10 gr instant yeast
•  75 ml of water
•  1 tbsp flour high protein

Bread dough:

• 10 gr instant yeast
• 100 ml of liquid milk
• 80 ml of water
• 375 high proten flour, smooth
• 20 gr smooth chocolate powder
• 1 tbsp salt
• 150 gr sugar

Coatings:

• 1 liter of water
• 220 gr sugar

Topping:

• 100 gr chocolate bars, melt
• 100 g almonds, toasted, roughly chopped

Méthodes:

1. Yeast Sponge : Prepare pan and enter the flour, instant yeast, and water, stir well and cover tightly and let stand for 2 hours
2. Bread dough : Mix the instant yeast, water, and milk, stir well, set aside
3. In other pan, combine flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, mix well and enter the yeast sponge, melted margarine and yeast mixture, milk, water, stirring until well blended, then knead until the dull. Form the dough into round and let stand 30 minutes
4. Deflate the dough, then let stand another 30 minutes, after that, devide the dough into each 15 grams, and 45 cm long spiral, with 1 cm in diameter, form at will you then let stand for 10 minutes.
5. Coatings : Boil water and sugar until sugar has dissolved, let it cool
6. Dip the dough into the coating solution, then baked in the oven with a temperature of 180 o C for 20 minutes, remove and cool
7. Make topping with chocolate and almonds

Baking Powder Streusel Kuchen Recipe

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Ingredients:

• 4 ounces cream cheese
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 can pie filling (optional)

For the topping:

• 1/2 cup finely chopped blanched almonds
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup cold butter

Methodes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream the cream cheese, granulated sugar, and salt together. Add the vanilla.
3. In a small bowl, mix the milk and vegetable oil together. Set aside. In another small bowl, whisk the flour and baking powder together.
4. Starting with the dry ingredients, add about one-third of the dry ingredients and then one-third of the milk mixture, mixing after each, until both the dry and wet ingredients are mixed with the creamed ingredients.
5. Spread the batter into a greased 8 1/2 x 13-inch pan. Cover with the pie filling.
6. For the streusel, Mix the almonds, flour, sugar, and salt together in a small bowl. With a pastry knife, cut the butter into the flour mixture and combination is a coarse mixture. Sprinkle over the top of the pie filling if desired.
7. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until done. If the topping is browning too quickly, cover the top with foil for the last few minutes.
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Einbrenn Sauce and Topping Recipe

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cube (4Tblsp) butter
• 1/4 cup flour AP
• 2 Tblespoon Brown Sugar for sauce
• 3-1/2 Tblsp Brown Sugar for topping
• pinch salt

Methodes:

1. Melt butter and add flour and cook on medium low heat stirring constantly.
2. You can adjust the heat up if your careful. Don't walk away from this.
3. When it turns brown add in 2 Tblsp brown sugar for a sauce and 3 and 1/2 Tablespoon to make a crumb topping
4. Add the sugar and cook until it makes a crumb like topping.
5. Place it on top of dishes like mashed sweet potatoes, carrots, or noodles. This will work as a streusal for a coffe cake as well.  
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Einbrennsuppe Recipe

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White Base Soup (weiße Einbrennsuppe).The following pertains to the soup in question.It is to each own liking to use boullion cubes,meat extract, meat or bone broth. For 4 bowls use 2 Tbsp fat,2 Tbsp flour,and generous liter ( generous quart)-stock or water. On medium heat fat should be meltedin a pot and under constant stirring four should be added.One the right color is reached, add the liquidslowly( use wisk)if clumps formed add some more fat and stir some more. Soup also could be sieved.

Ingredients:

• 3 Tblsp any kind of fat ( bacon, lard, beef fat, chicken fat)
• 1 teaspoon, Cumin ground or whole caraway seeds)
• 6 Tblsp Flour
• some Paprika (2 teas)
• 1/2-1 liter (1 quart) of stock or water. depending on how thick you want it.

Methodes:

1. Put the fat, seasonings and flour in a heavy duty pan and cook on medium low heat , stirring constantly till it has a nutty aroma. Cooking it for just a few minutes will give you a white roux.Here we have cooked it longer to get what is called a blond roux.
2. You can keep browning the flour and oil, it will develop a deeper richer flavor as you brown it.
3. Here is a deep brown roux. it is ready to add the Stock to it.
4. Add 1 liter cold water or stock, cook 2-3 minutes and add pepper and salt to your liking.Top with croutons and sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley.We always ate buttered bread with it.If you use cold water you can add a boullion cube.
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