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Omgoodness I’ve always wanted to try jiggly Japanese treats 😍

You are too kind. I have been spreading the word about you!

The nestle site you linked to said they cook the dough in a dough vacuum blender, you can see one of those here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFBNgnqICM basically kneads and heats together. Ingredients have to be listed in weight order on food label ingredient lists and they have given you some percentages. So in 100g of cereal there is 68g of flour (made up of 27.3g wholewheat flour, 10.5g wholemeal oat flour, 10g maize semolina 9g rice flour ?? not sure why this doesn't add up to 68g the maize and rice should be less than 10.5 so that it is in the right order but that is strange because it doesn't add up - keep reading), 35g total from these three -sugar, dextrose and honey, (you can see from the nutritional info that they are 36.5g/100 sugar a tiny bit of that is from the flour the rest is coming from a combination of the sugar, dextrose and honey eg: 20g sugar, 10g dextrose, 5g honey), Now we are already up to 103g per 100 which makes me wonder if the 68% on the label was a mistake and should have been 58%?? Which would leave us 7g/100 for everything else eg: 1.6g vanilla extract, 1.5g caramel, 1g barley malt extract, 0.8g sweet whey powder, 0.6g maltodextrin, 0.5g vegetable oil (fat is 0.5g/100 on nutritional info so we know that value), I've left 1g total for the rest as they all have to be less than 0.5g/100 each in decreasing quantities ... Salt, vitamins and minerals (vitamin C, niacin, pantothenate, vitamin B6, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, folic acid, vitamin B12, calcium carbonate), colorant (paprika extract, beta-carotene), antioxidant E306. Have fun experimenting. Oh and remember to keep some of that sugar/dextrose/honey out for coating rather than in mixing it all into the cereal mixture.

Great tip thanks Diana, potato flour is not common here in Australia but if amazon has it that is always an option 😀

Personally I haven't made it with stevia before but this lady has... https://lowcarbyum.com/sugar-free-chocolate-bars-with-stevia-recipe/. there seems to be issues with some of the other additives in certain stevia products making it gritty so check the ingredients.

Hi Carolyn - I got this after the video had gone live so will put it on the next videos comments 😀

Hi Gina, I have never made marzipan from scratch - I'm one of the ones who doesn't love the flavour. But generally I like to use cooking oil spray to stop it sticking to my rolling pin instead of cornstarch. The oil helps stop cracking 😀

Apologies for so many comments! It just occurred to me that for certain recipes potato flour (fécule de pomme de terre) can substitute for corn flour and regular plain flour. A lot of recipes seem to have adopted this when making a roux based sauce for example. Might be less in demand where panic buyers have emptied the shelves of cornflour etc. All but certain that I bought my bag from Amazon but am sure that it won’t be difficult to find..

DianaB

Hello Ann I recently went keto and want to make my own chocolate out of cocoa butter and cocoa powder but with stevia instead of sugar I am a bit terrified as the ingredients were not cheap I do not want to mess it up. Do you have any ideas? Pretty please. Also can you make meringue with stevia instead of sugar ?

Ann I love your baking and have been watching you fot a long time but you over complicated the Princess cake. In Sweden we just do a normal cake with custard and some jam the a LOT of whipped cream on top. Anyway a beautiful cake and video Sincerely A Swedish fan

You are so generous, Ann! LiquidWholeFood.com, selling organic and natural liquid whole food supplements and homeopathic tinctures in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Thanks for another great video!

Hi Ann, they were not puffed, which I think makes it a bit easier. They were a bit like the Nesquik cereals in texture, the pops were a bit smaller though and flattened. The German Amazon has better pictures than Google: https://www.amazon.de/Nestl%C3%A9-Cerealien-Trio-375g-Pack/dp/B00AJF7M4I I was also able to find the ingredients that they've used: 68.1% cereals (27.3% wholemeal wheat flour, wheat flour, 10.5% wholemeal oat flour, maize semolina, rice flour), sugar, dextrose, honey, vanilla extract, caramel, barley malt extract, sweet whey powder, maltodextrin, vegetable oil, Salt, vitamins and minerals (vitamin C, niacin, pantothenate, vitamin B6, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, folic acid, vitamin B12, calcium carbonate), colorant (paprika extract, beta-carotene), antioxidant E306 But it's a bit of a guessing game from there, regarding proportions etc. One difficulty is that they have a range of flours, but I don't think they use all flours for every flavour. Kellog's has a product (Honey Bsss Pops) that taste similar to the honey pops from Trio. They use 74% percent corn flour and 5% honey. And I found a Nestle product that uses Whole Grain Wheat (26.6%), Wheat Flour (26.3%), Sugar, Whole Grain Maize Flour (14.6%), Maize Semolina (13.6%), Glucose Syrup, Honey (2.3%) and other ingredients. But that's only available in the UK, so I don't know if they taste similar. And then there are Nestle Lion cereals. They are chocolate and caramel flavoured... and they list as ingredients: Whole Grain Wheat (38.9%), Wheat Flour, Rice Flour), Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Caramel Paste (6.3%) (Sweetened Condensed Milk, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Salt), Sunflower Oil, Chocolate (4.1%) and a few more. So I guess that I'll use all those information to mix together some dough.. and put it in the oven. That's what Nestle says on their website: https://www.nestle-cereals.com/uk/en/ingredients/our-cereal-ingredients/how-to-make-cereal I'd also guess that these pops have a coating, which flavours the milk, but it doesn't colour the milk like Coco Pops do (or Nesquik). So I need to figure out something for that, too. But that's all I have so far.

Thank you for this great video! I once made Chef Gale Gand’s Princess Cake recipe but I attempted to make the marzipan from scratch. The cake was delicious but my marzipan had a couple of cracks. How do you make the marzipan top and keep it smooth?

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Yes I have had Tourteau Fromagé but found it less than impressive and wouldn’t herd cats across a field to taste it again! For me cheesecake has to be dense, vanilla flavoured with some sultanas soaked to plumpness added for high days and holidays. The only place I know that sells the cheesecake of my childhood memories is the Yellow Shop in Paris. A must if ever you have chance to wander the streets of that magical city... https://www.laboutiquejaune.fr/

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Hi Diana, Your village sounds lovely. I used to get food shopping delivered but they can't keep up with demand of everyone wanting to do online so have to go to the shops now.

Hi Christian, Recreating cereals sounds like an interesting challenge. I can't tell from the box images on google was it a puffed cereal?

That is so strange, I had never heard of Tourteau fromagé, but just watched a video. Is it burnt on the top. Have you eaten it? Do you like it?

I don’t have a business to promote but thought it worth adding another comment in response to your question about how confinement is impacting across your audience. I guess that wherever one is based much will depend on personal circumstances. Here in North Yorkshire I have worked from home for years so in reality little has changed. With my husband I can still enjoy a daily walk in beautiful countryside, our shopping arrives at our door; hand over is slightly different but easily managed; fresh food is collected weekly from our amazingly great farm shop. I appreciate that we experience none of the shortages of those in towns and am really grateful for that. So sad that Amazon has closed in France because the company wouldn’t put measures in place to protect their employees. For now we can order as we want and the Amazon team seems to be in the village every day. Stopping here because have mistakenly hit send!

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I know the issues with ad revenues being down from work, which is a bit strange. People watch a lot more TV, YouTube, etc. and it would be a great time to run advertising.. but companies play it safe and don't book advertising. I think performance-based ads still go rather well. Situation in supermarkets got better here. I've seen loads of toilet paper everywhere, flour is back on shelves, too. It's a bit more difficult to find yeast, so everyone tries sourdough bread or watch videos on how to make your own yeast or how to stretch the yeast that you have. At least that's the case here in Germany. I want to use the time that I spend at home to re-create the best cereals from my childhood: Nestle Trio. They were small honey, caramel and vanilla pops and they were delicious. My mother wouldn't buy them because the whole package would be gone within hours. Haven't started yet though. Self-isolation is taking its toll on me. I've had a few anxiety attacks, it got better though. Now I'm just tired, probably because now I'm sitting most of the time.

Once again I am delighted to have early access to the video and have thoroughly enjoyed watching it. With regards the recipes I think that I would want to add fruit or a praline layer to contrast with the softness of the original layers in the first. Having understood (thank you) the original is from the first part of the 20th century gave me a better context for the version shown. Nancy Mitford wrote of preparing a special dessert for a friend’s dinner party: Creme Chantilly! That was it, the whole dessert! Sweetened whipped cream! Although I don’t know the Japanese recipe you show there is a French « cheesecake » that has that same texture. Usually sold in a ball shape with a blackened top. I’ll find a reference to that version to post below. Loved the treasure chase you arranged for your boys, such inventiveness should itself bring a prize (or several). Many thanks for so interesting a film at a time when so many people can only think and talk of one thing which, sadly, isn’t cake! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourteau_fromag%C3%A9

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