Chapter 55: The Celestial Puff Tower
With the passage of time, the limited time finally arrived, and after the clock dingdong, the two people stopped their movements at the same time, smiled bitterly at each other, and won or lost at a glance.
"Okay, since you've made a lot of them, now the two of you, each pick the lava cake that you think is the best and bring it to the stage!"
Bai Feifei and Uncle Pan Jianguo smiled bitterly and carefully selected among the bunch of cakes they made, and then went on stage nervously.
Seeing the two cakes, Liu Yifan pushed his black-framed glasses, and did not go to get the knife, but asked the two of them with his hands.
"Do you think these two cakes need to be compared?"
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, and Cao Lin came out to play a round at this time, and he smiled.
"Uh...... Although both of you failed this time, it is still clear whether you win or lose, Bai Feifei, although your cake does not have lava, at least the appearance is restored......"
Mengyun tasted what Pan Jianguo made at this time and shook his head.
"You're a completely undercooked loaf of bread, not only is there a problem with the baking time, but you have a lot of bugs with the process when you're making cakes, and you can see that you've never made this stuff before. ”
Pan Jianguo nodded awkwardly, and Cao Lin clapped his hands.
"Okay, since our three judges have the same opinion, then the last one to be eliminated from 4 into 3 is Pan Jianguo! At the same time, we also congratulate Bai Feifei for successfully advancing and getting the last place in the top 3 in the country!"
Next, Cao Lin said some nonsense without nutrition, and then, at the director's instructions, continued to record.
At this moment, Bai Feng somewhat understood how those variety shows in his world were recorded, and it seems that most of them were basically recorded a month or months in advance, and then sent back for editing and production.
On TV, you can watch one episode a week, and when you actually record it, you can record two or more episodes a day.
Just like now, they will play continuously in the field, and after they are shown on TV in the later stage, they may be broadcast in 2 or 3 episodes a day.
"Okay, then now let's continue the game, this time the game is still Western, and the two people who advance in advance will directly compete for the championship and runner-up tomorrow!"
Liu Yifan nodded, slowly uncovered a very high conical iron bucket in front of him, and said.
"Today, the three of you need to challenge - a palace-level work in Western food!
Cao Lin nodded with a smile.
"Yes, Silkpuff Tower! In terms of difficulty, it can be described as hell! What we have to do today is still to restore, and there is still no teacher to demonstrate! Everything is up to you! The time limit is 2 hours! Start now!"
Bai Feng and Bai Feifei glanced at each other, and the two of them collapsed directly, especially Bai Feng, the volcanic lava cake before made her embarrassed, and she didn't expect that there would be another one that was even more terrifying.
She glanced at the Rose Puff Tower on the table, and her whole body was a little petrified.
This puff tower is at least one meter high, and is composed of 108 small puffs, which are glued and then pulled to the outside, thus becoming a puff puff tower.
Cao Lin looked at the silk puff tower made by Liu Yifan himself and asked.
"Mr. Liu, you can also tell the audience and friends, what are the difficulties in making the Silk Puff Tower?"
Liu Yifan nodded and cleared his throat.
"What about this puff tower, the most difficult thing is naturally the demoulding, because of the relationship of time, the demoulding is likely to lead to the failure of demoulding, as long as the demoulding fails, then this work is basically equivalent to all failures, even if you want to do it again, it is too late, that is to say, although there are two hours, but in fact, everyone has only one chance!"
Bai Feng had a lot of experience in making cakes before, and now she is still very confident in the first stage of making puffs, and as long as the puffs are made, the system should also trigger the proficiency of the puff tower.
She now preheats the oven to 190°C and lightly greets the four trays of the oven. This step is crucial, if it is not preheated or buttered, the puffs will be sent directly to the crematorium.
Then it's time to make the fluffy egg dough, pour the butter, sugar, milk, salt and water into a large, long-handled, deep-bottomed pan and bring to a boil. Stop the heat and quickly stir it with the flour with a wooden spoon. Reheat while continuing to stir so that it is even and no longer sticks. Continue to heat and stir for another 1 to 2 minutes. Stop heating and let cool slightly.
Pour into a blender and stir to release more heat. Add one egg at a time, stirring evenly each time until all the eggs are added and the mixture appears thick and shiny. Blend for a few minutes, or until thick.
Spoon half of the egg dough into the piping cone, and wrap the remaining egg dough in plastic wrap. The mixture is squeezed onto the tray with a piping tube to form small piles 3 cm wide and 2 cm high, leaving a 5 cm gap between each small pile to prevent it from expanding when heated. This is the prototype of puffs!
Then spread the beaten eggs and milk on top of the piled puffs. Bake in the oven in batches for 25 to 30 minutes until fluffy and golden brown.
Next up is the all-important caramel making!
Caramel can't be boiled too thin, if it's too thin, the viscosity is not enough, and it is naturally easy to make the puff tower fall off.
After the puffs and caramel are OK, you can make the puff tower, first dip the puffs in caramel, and then slowly stuff them into the tower-shaped metal mold.
One at a time, until full, wait for solidification.
Because the competition time is limited, the three of them can't wait for natural cooling to demold, and must be manually cooled.
At this time, it depends on technology and luck, and the previous efforts will bear fruit after demoulding.
Cao Lin said with a smile.
"Hehe, it's really unexpected, Bai Feng was the first to finish it, and she has now started to cool down the mold with water!
Bai Feng held the mold of about one meter, turned on the faucet and slowly rinsed it back and forth, trying to cool down the mold, it was still early, so she was not too anxious.
And Zhao Linlin has obviously made this step, but the rest of Bai Feifei is much slower, she has baked the puffs three times in a row, and they are all charred when they come out, obviously, she is still trying to find the best temperature and time for puffs to bake.
Ten minutes later, Bai Feng began to try to demold, she gently knocked the conical mold back and forth from top to bottom, but the puffs in the mold did not move at all.
"Oh, it's a pity, Bai Feng's first demoulding seems to have failed, let's take a look at Zhao Linlin's again, oh, she didn't succeed in demoulding, it's really a palace-level work, the difficulty is extraordinary!