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Recipe by Rebekah Tilbury, Western Australia
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Preparing Italian Almond infused Butter:
Ingredients
- ½ cup of unsalted butter
- 8 g Dilmah Italian Almond tea (the ratio is 2 g of loose leaf tea per tablespoon of butter.
There are approximately 8 tablespoons in ½ a cup).
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Method of Preparation
- In a small saucepan, heat the butter until melted, then add the tea leaves. Continue heating the mixture
for about 5 minutes on low heat.
- Remove from the heat and allow to stand for another 5 minutes or until the butter starts to noticeably
change colour(due to the tea leaves).
- Pour the mixture through a fine sieve, pressing hard on the tea leaves and then discarding them.
- Let the butter come to room temperature – it’s now ready to use in the Baba au Rhum dough.
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Preparing Yeast Cake:
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp dry yeast
- 3 tbsp warm water
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp salt<
- 1/2 cup of the tea infused butter
- 2 tea bags or heaped teaspoons of Dilmah Italian Almond tea (for the raisins)
- 1 cup raisins
- 6 mini Bundt moulds
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Method of Preparation
Note: This should be completed the day before serving.
- Combine 1 cup of boiling water with 2 tea bags or heaped teaspoons of loose leaf tea. Let steep for
5 minutes, then remove teabags or strain the tea out of the water. Add in 3 tablespoons of the spiced rum and the
raisins. Soak overnight.
- Stir the yeast and the warm water together in a large bowl and allow the yeast to dissolve for 5 minutes.
Lightly beat the eggs into the yeast and water.
- Mix the flour, sugar, orange and lemon zest, and salt together and then stir the mixture into the yeast
and eggs to form a dough. Knead the dough with the tea infused butter for about 5 minutes, until it turns soft and
elastic.
- Cover the dough and allow it to rise for 1 hour, until it doubles in size.
- Remove the raisins from the tea and rum mixture, and mix the raisins into the dough. You can keep the tea
and rum mixture to add into the soaking syrup later.
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Grease the mini Bundt pans and divide the Baba au Rhum mixture between them.
- Cover the dough and moulds with a damp cloth and allow the dough to rise for 30 to 45 minutes, until the
dough has just started to rise above the moulds’ edges.
- Uncover the babas and bake them in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until they turn golden brown and begin
to pull away from the sides of the moulds. Immediately remove the babas from the moulds and allow them to cool on a wire
rack.
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Preparing Italian Almond Tea and Spiced Rum Soaking Syrup:
Ingredients
- 3 cups Water
- 6 Tea Bags or Heaped Teaspoons of Dilmah Italian Almond tea
- 2 cups Granulated Sugar
- ¼ – ½ cup of Spiced Dark Rum to Taste. (The original recipe carries Kraken Black Spiced Rum)
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Method of Preparation
- Whilst the yeast cakes are cooling, make the soaking syrup. In a saucepan set over medium heat, bring
the water to a boil at 100°C and add in 6 tea bags or 6 heaped teaspoons of Dilmah’s Italian Almond loose leaf tea.
Keep the water on the heat and allow the tea to steep for 5 minutes. Remove the teabags or strain the tea from the water.
- Add the sugar to the liquid and place the saucepan back on the heat, bringing the mixture back to the boil
at 100°C. Make sure to stir occasionally. Boil the mixture for 10 minutes or until all of the sugar has dissolved and the
tea syrup has thickened.
- Remove the tea syrup from the heat and stir the spiced rum into the mixture.
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Preparing Chantilly Cream:
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Method of Preparation
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla extract together on high speed until
soft peaks form in the mixture.
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To serve:
- Place the babas into the warm rum syrup and turn them several times, allowing them to soak up the syrup.
They will swell and absorb most of the syrup.
- Place each baba onto a dessert plate and pour over any remaining syrup.
- Place a dollop of the vanilla Chantilly cream on top of each Baba au Rhum and serve immediately.
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