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As always, the dough preparation is crucial! Make sure you mix the dates chunks evenly into the dough.
Then, you shape them! Aren't these sphere doughs cute?!
And they're done!!! Freshly baked ones are sooooooooo good. If you've had these pastries freshly baked, the same-day (cooled down) ones they have in bakeries will never taste the same to ya.
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A similar pastry was previously featured as part of the Danish galore post. In this one, the cream filling has been replaced with red bean, making it one of the Chef's unique creations. (also gives it an asian spin~)
Before
After!
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It's really hard to resist your temptations to eat all of them when they smell sooooo good freshly out of the oven.
I took a lot of pictures of these freshly baked loaves of bread, making sure every element of their beauty are accurately captured. 
Red Bean and Rasin
Close up of Red Bean
Close up of Rasin
Chocolate and Dates
The chocolates and the red bean are wrapped inside the center of the dough, the round ones have the rasin and the dates evenly baked into the dough.
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YUM !!
The following are pictures of the work in progress.
1. Everything starts from getting a couple cans of delicious sweet peach and pear
2. Prepare the dough. This is the hardest step. After mixing in the right ingredients, you have to condition the dough by putting it in the freezer, re-mix and let it settle. If any of these tricky steps are done inaccurately, the finished product won't be right. *take good care preparing, you've been warned*
3. When dough is ready, slice them into long pieces, then into small square pieces.
4. The following picture should clearly illustrate the next step. Fold the fruit pieces into the dough piece, careful not too put in too much. This picture shows the peach, strawberry and pear danish designs.
5. The following shows the star cherry fruit design.
6. The beautiful designs all displayed below.
7. AND IT'S DONE! (it's time to start drooling…hehe)
The sphere shaped ones have pastry cream inside and white sesame on top. =)
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This is one of the Chef's original creations inspired by a oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. These mini scones are sooooooo good, they are crunchy yet chewy, the giant sweet raisins provide the perfect final touch. I love them! I brought them into work with me today, my co-workers also really really liked them. Someday, we are going to open a tea/bakery shop, I'm sure this will be one of the top selling items! 
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After:
Nice, healthy and super delicious. The Chef is getting better and better at making American baked goodies.
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One word describes this baked goodness: HEAVENLY~
The Chef had great success making the Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti. Given this is her first time trying the American recipe step by step, she was very careful in making sure all the necessary ingredients were included, the oven was timed, the dough was properly mixed, etc.
There were two parts the the baking process:
1. Making the bread
2. Making the Biscotti
Here's a picture of the finished bread, decorated with pretty cranberry pieces and pistachios:
Isn't it beautiful? The red and green provides the perfect holiday spirit! Did I mention the cranberry pistachio biscotti is one of the top favorite Christmas home baked goodies? This is a greatly present to give to your loved ones during this special season.
After the first part of the baking is complete, you have to cut the bread into chunks, the thickness if up to you, I would suggest 1" to 1.5" per piece.
Good luck and don't forget to use fresh pistachios!
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This isn't as soft as the typical American banana bread, but good nevertheless.
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