Thursday, September 27, 2012

empanadas

Patri of the blog, Asi Son Los Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she decided to tempt us with one of her family’s favorite recipes for Empanadas! We were given two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as creatively as we wished!

I wasn't very creative. I filled my Empanadas with apple pie filling. Brushed them with some an egg wash, sprinkled on some raw sugar, and baked them.


I had spotted this cute mini apple pie cutter/maker at the store and couldn't help but using it for this challenge! I don't like to make pie dough, and as i'm more comfortable with yeasted dough I thought this would be perfect. Turns out that yeasted dough doesn't really like to be rolled thinly and cut using a plastic cutter. The dough tends to shrink back. It did work out, but it was a bit finicky.

We weren't big fans of this, but it's probably my fault. Maybe I should have sweetened the dough more. Or flavored it in some way. I did use butter instead of oil, thinking it would impart it with a buttery taste. I cut some of the salt and added a tbsp of sugar. But it wasn't enough. I also used a mixture of all purpose and bread flour because I didn't have enough bread flour. So that probably had an impact on the texture of the baked dough.

I'm sure my fellow Daring Bakers fared much better than I at this challenge! Hop on over to the Daring Kitchen and have a look at what they came up with!





11 comments:

  1. Sorry you didn't enjoy your apple empanada (so cute!!) as much as you'd hoped, but I gotta say - it looks good and sounds delicious for Fall! Great job :)

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  2. Looks very nice - sorry you didnt like it. They sound good to me.

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  3. That is a seriously cute empanada! Sorry it didn't taste the way you were hoping.

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  4. Oh how lovely! You know how much I love these artistic takes on food! I will have to try that! Sorry it wasn't exactly what you expected.

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  5. That cookie cutter makes these look awfully creative AND delicious!

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  6. You made such a lovely empanada!!! Sorry I didn't provide a specific recipe for the sweet fillings, I should have. I hope you had a good time making it. Congrats!!!

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  7. Oops, just realized I make my comment using my husbands account! :-)

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  8. Your miniature version looks perfect- I used an apple filling as well and wished I has sweetened things up a little more than I did. But, I did love combination - just needed some perfecting.

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  9. It may have fallen a little short for your in the taste stakes but it looks so cute! What a beautiful cutter!

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