Sunday, August 08, 2010

From http://urbanpainner.blogspot.com/

Tonight was the inaugural Urban Painner dinner, and the challenge was to make dinner in the Hong Kong kitchen, complete with the countertop oven. Up first was Dan Lepard's Peanut Chilli Bread. The toughest thing about making this was the patience involved. There was a fifteen minute rest period, then a half hour, then another ten minutes, and finally forty-five. After all that waiting, this was the end result, ready for an hours baking:



The next course was Ottolenghi's aubergine cheesecake, which was another dish that required some preparation time but was otherwise simple. Dessert was a variant of Dan Lepard's Dark Chocolate Berry Cake. It was impossible to find a cherry preserve here, so instead I bought a tin of cherries and made a quick replacement with corn starch, reserving some for decorating. I'd also managed to forget brown sugar, so used caster instead. The unfortunate side effect was that the frosting became too liquid, so I ended up compensating with icing sugar and cocoa.

The end result?

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