Vanilla Zephyr Recipe | Zephyr Recipe

Hello everyone! Welcome to my channel Alla's Yummy Food and welcome! Today I'm going to show you how to make vanilla zephyr, the most requested, the most amazing and super easy recipe of vanilla zephyr. What is also amazing is that you can add different flavors to it. Vanilla extract, almond extract and many many other things that I will tell you in the recipe. And I really really hope if you make this it's so yummy it's my favorite dish from my childhood it's perfect for those who don't want to have fat in their desserts as it's mainly consisting of egg whites and apples and just really really delicious and guys obviously to get the recipes and guys to get access to all my recipes and videos you can become a member in my online cooking school and join thousands of other students just like you 100% proven recipes no ads no talking straight in there and you can ask me anything in our community i really hope to see you there and now let's get started first we're going to make apple puree so i've got my apples here i'm gonna take off the seeds inside using a tool but again you can just cut your apples in half and deseed them it's completely up to you we then want to get rid of any skin so peel until they are completely done now you can use any apples that you like if you use sour apples the puree will be slightly more sour of course if you use sweeter apples it will be much sweeter so you can then adjust the sugar depending on kind of what you like but we're not going to be adding any additional sugar to this puree so so that you know we don't need extra sugar you can then use this puree in any other recipes chop your apples into nice small pieces the smaller you chop them the easier it will be to cook them and the faster they will cook but you can also chop them in bigger chunks as well and there are several ways to cook your apples you can put them in a microwave as well you can put them into your oven i'm gonna just do it in a pot so once all your apples are chopped just add them simply into your large pot like this and you're going to add a little bit of water we're going to cook them on kind of like a medium low heat so that the apples cook and steam i'm going to cook them until they're completely softened you might need to add more water in the process depends how quickly the water evaporates so if you feel like the water has evaporated you can add a little bit of water but don't forget apples do release a lot of water themselves so don't overdo this step it's better to not add too much water than over add and you can see my apples have browned a little bit more here but they're still not cooked so I've added a little bit more water and I'm just going to cook them on a low heat until they're fully soft. You can also use a knife or prick them with your wooden spatula to see how cooked they are. Once your apples have cooked, you can blitz them with a hand blender or put them into a food processor. It's completely up to you. And that's your apple puree done. If you don't like little bits of apples, you can sift the puree through. Next we need to prepare everything before we start making zefir. So here I've got my condensed milk boiled which makes a caramel. I've got this one from Latvia but you can use any caramel that is hard like you can see in the video. So if you don't have this type of caramel you can boil a can of condensed milk for a few hours. You want to prep your baking paper together with your baking tray so that you can pipe your zefirs later we will also prepare our mixture so in a bowl add your puree and we're going to have to do this process in two ways then add your egg white and i'm adding also cinnamon because i really want to have a cinnamon flavor then you're going to place it onto your stand mixer and you're going to whisk this for a few minutes until you start to see that the mixture has thickened and the egg whites are incorporated together with the puree and we're really looking to whip this up halfway through before adding our hot syrup. You do want to make this step in advance so that you're not stressed out that your mixture isn't whisked enough before adding the syrup and it should become nice white and pale like you can see in the video. Once it has that you want to stop the mixer for a second and then go and make your syrup. Now to make your syrup you want to add water, sugar and glucose syrup inside. Okay you then also want to add your agar agar and place everything onto the stove. You're going to cook this on a medium to low heat. You want to make sure that all your ingredients melt together and it creates a nice beautiful syrup don't be tempted to cook this um very very fast because you need to make sure that the syrup cooks and agar will activate after the mixture starts to boil so this can take from five minutes up to seven minutes uh cooking on the medium speed um you need to make sure that the mixture cooks to around 110 degrees celsius or when you start to see that it becomes a bit sloppy so like a thicker consistency of um like a yogurt i would say you know the drips down the mixture will bubble which is absolutely normal and agar will kind of become a bit brown in color and that's when you know that your syrup is nearly done once it reaches that temperature or the consistency that you're looking for like you can see here in the video you want to take it off the heat you want to turn on your stand mixer on high speed and start pouring your syrup on the side very very slowly you want to do this on the side so that your syrup doesn't touch the whisk by accident because if it will touch it by accident it will go everywhere so you have to be very very careful. Once you've poured all your syrup you're going to continue to whisk on high speed until you will see the mixture will double in size and cool down and become nice and firm. Make sure that you don't over whisk the mixture or it will become runny and the zephyr will not work anymore. So you really need to watch this step here and not leave the stand mixer side to make sure that you get nice stiff peaks. The mixture will also become different color, will become a lot more paler than when you originally started and that is absolutely normal. Now take your piping bag lined with the star-shaped nozzle or you can use any other nozzle that you like and place your mixture inside. You want to put all your mixture ideally into your piping bag. If you don't have enough then you can use two piping bags. As the agar agar sets at around 40 degrees celsius the mixture will start to set as well, so you really need to work quickly here. You need to make sure that everything is ready and once your mixture is inside the piping bag, pipe your zephyr onto parchment paper and leave them to set overnight on your counter in a room temperature. The next day you want to get your wafers use the crispy wafers like these i get them from eastern european stores and i'm going to add them into my food processor and blitz them until they're nice and smooth you really want to get this nice crunchy sort of crunch you're going to add your crunchy wafers into a bowl and we're going to basically decorate our zephyr like that you can add some crunchiness on top like this so it's easier for you to pick up your zephyr and of course we're gonna basically take each half and then glue it together with the second half just like this look how gorgeous they are and what you're gonna do you're gonna dip it into your crunchy layers okay so you want to just coat it as much as possible because they don't stick as well in the beginning they stick a bit but then if you want a lot of crunch i like to dip it quite a few times and there we have it look how gorgeous it is you're going to repeat the process with all your vanilla zephyr so just glue two halves together just like that and here we go amazing vanilla marshmallow zephyr absolutely my favorite it's so soft it's so marshmallowy like a cloud with a crunchy outer layer i absolutely love these they'll keep well in the room temperature up to one week enjoy