Rays Catering and Events Services

13/02/2024

LETS TALK MEATPIE..

* Don't knead your meatpie, use your thumb to bring them together.

* Do not use room temperature water to mix except you are putting the dough back in fridge, always make the dough with chilled water.

* Use enough margarine for your dough ratio should be 2:1, flour 2, margarine 1.

* Do not roll your dough too thin it would likely make your meatpie to burst open.

* Pop your dough in fridge from time to time when you notice it's becoming stretchy, you don't want to have a hard meatoie after all.

* If your aim is to have a flaky pie, make use of minimal cornflour.

* Do not overwork your dough, please it will definitely affect the texture and the look of your meatpie.

* Go easy on spicing the filling, meatpie detects salty taste fast.

* Always allow the filling to cool, if possible let it be very cold.

* Do not bake your meatpie at low heat

Hope someone finds this helpful!😊

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29/01/2024

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04/12/2023

Beautiful setup. Dm for all your events needs. We work with every budget😍

25/11/2023

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20/06/2023

25 Useful Tips for Baking Cakes

TIP #1
If a cake recipe calls for butter, get it almost room temperature, but slightly cooler. It’ll warm up when mixed.

TIP #2:
You can substitute buttermilk by using 1 cup of regular milk, minus a tablespoon. Then add back in one tablespoon of lemon juice. Let it sit for five minutes. If you need more than one cup of buttermilk, just adjust the ratios as needed.

TIP #3:
Adding just a touch (1/4 – 1/2 tsp.) of almond emulsion to vanilla cake really brings out the vanilla flavor and you don’t really taste the almond flavoring. Try this almond emulsion:

TIP #4:
Use a paddle (flat be**er) attachment to mix your cake batter. It’s not as harsh on the batter as the whisk attachment.

TIP #5:
baking soda does not equal baking powder
Don’t substitute baking soda and baking powder. They aren’t exactly interchangeable. Without going in to too much scientific detail here, you’ll use soda when an acid is added to the batter like lemon, buttermilk etc. Baking soda is much stronger than baking powder, so don’t try subbing them out equally.

TIP #6:
cake flour
If the recipe calls for cake flour and you don’t have any, you can make your own in a pinch. For each cup of cake flour you need, just take out two tablespoons of flour and add in two tablespoons of cornstarch. Mix it well.

TIP #7:
Don’t adjust the cake recipe (unless you’re really experienced, or feeling lucky.) You don’t want to make adjustments to the ingredients or you could throw off the ratios and you don’t want to change the mixing method because you could get a totally different texture than you expected.

TIP #8:
When trying to get cold butter to come to room temperature, cut it into smaller chunks so it will warm up quicker.

TIP #9:
Room temperature ingredients mix better than cold ingredients. Try to get your cold ingredients as close to room temperature as you can before mixing your cake batter.

TIP #10:
When measuring flour, don’t pack it down into the measuring cup. Spoon it out of the flour bag and into the measuring cup. Packing it down, by using a measuring cup to spoon it out of the bag, will add too much flour to your cake batter.

TIP #11:
Prepare your pans well, so you don’t waste time making the perfect cake, only to have it stuck in the pan. Getting Your Cakes to Release From Their Pans

TIP #12:
Check your oven temperature. Get yourself an oven thermometer. They’re cheap. Pop it into your oven and make sure the degrees you’ve set your oven to, is what’s showing up
on ur thermometer.

TIP #13:
lightbulb graphic

Don’t leave the oven light on when baking. Ok, some ovens this may not make a difference, but I’ve noticed in some oven if the light is on, it seems to brown cake layers more on that side of the oven.

TIP #14:
Don’t slam the oven door or otherwise jostle the cake inside. That’s a good way to get the cake to sink.

TIP #15:

Don’t over-beat a scratch cake batter. The texture of your cake will come out all wrong. It can be super dense, it could fall, it could have gluey streaks and even tunnels in it. You can beat a cake box mix batter longer, but not a scratch cake.

TIP #16:
When adding chocolate chips or fruit bits into your cake batter, coat them with flour to help keep them from sinking to the bottom of the pan.

TIP #17:
Once your cake is baked, cool them inside the pan and on a rack for only about ten minutes (a bit longer for large or bundt cakes). After ten minutes, turn them out of their pans to cool on the rack completely. If you let them sit too long in their pans, you could have trouble getting them out later.

TIP #18:
Do freeze your baked cakes. If you do it the right way, you won’t get freezer burn and no one will ever know they’ve been frozen.

TIP #19:
Use magic line pans. Seriously don’t put off buying some. Once you do, you’ll kick yourself for not getting them sooner. Your cake will come out evenly baked

TIP #20:
Stop worrying about getting flat tops on your baked cakes. There are a ton of tricks out there to get them to bake with flat tops, but I don’t like messing with the texture of a cake. Let the cake layers bake up normally and then just use a leveler to cut off the dome. You don’t need a fancy leveler either. Just use a large knife or this leveler here:

TIP #21:
Make sure to check your baking soda and baking powder. They’re not good indefinitely. Write the dates on your containers when you open them the first time.

TIP #22:

Ok, this is an obvious one, but you’ve GOT to preheat that oven. Make sure it’s fully preheated before you get that cake in there.

TIP #23:
Mixer and spatula graphic

When mixing up your cake batter, don’t skip out on scraping down the bowl. It’s important to get any random bits of butter or flour incorporated into the batter. If you’ve got a stand up mixer, also scrap the bottom. Sometimes the be**er doesn’t reach areas toward the bottom.

TIP #24:
This one might go without saying, but don’t open your oven a hundred times to check the cake. You’ll let out too much heat, which will hurt your baking time and could cause the cake to sink.

TIP #25:
When baking cakes with fruit in them like banana, carrot, zucchini or pumpkin, let them sit overnight before serving them. This helps the flavors to meld together and they’re much tastier the next day. Just make sure to cover well with saran wrap or press-n-seal, so it doesn’t dry out

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05/06/2023

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23/05/2023

Service with a 😊. And the food tastes homely. Book us for your next event

23/04/2023

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23/04/2023

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07/03/2023

For all your rental needs look no further. We have you fully covered with our wide variety of rental items. Locations: Madina Ritz junction and Oyarifa. Dm for great discount 🥰

06/03/2023

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01/03/2023

Hello March please be good. Happy New month to you all💞

22/02/2023

Birthdays are worth celebrating. Thank you for choosing us to make your love's day special🤝

03/02/2023

HOW TO KNOW A GOOD CAKE

All cakes are sweet because of the presence of sugar so there's nothing like sweet cake. Even the dry rock called cakes are sweet. A nice cake is moist and fluffy.

Here are the tips that contribute to nice cakes

1⃣ YOUR HEAT:

Heat determines the outcome of your cake. If you have too much heat, no matter what you add to your cake, its going to come out different likewise when its too low. Your cake needs moderate heat.

To control the temperature of your local oven, use thermometer but if you don't have one, a bowl of water into the oven will help you regulate the heat.

2⃣ CREAMING YOUR BATTER:

How fluffy you cream your batter determines the outcome of your cake.

It's popular to hear that creamimg should be done till 'sugar melts." Truth remains, sugar can never melt! It only melts when it gets to the oven.

So to know if your creamed batter is ready to be mixed, it doubles in size and becomes lighter in weight.

When you scoop it on your spatula it falls off easily. That way, you are ready to mix!

3⃣ USING THE RIGHT FLOUR:

Some flour are better than the others! Cake flour is better for cake making than bread flour and all purpose flour. The brand you're using is also a good determinant. Ensure you're using the right flour.

4⃣ SCOOPING TOO MUCH BATTER INTO YOUR PAN.

Truth be told, your baked cake shouldn't be more than 2" high when cold!

Learn to bake in batches! Don't heap all batter into a pan.

If you mix 500g batter, scoop it into 3 same pans and allow to bake. To ensure it doesnt stay too long in the oven.

Have you ever wondered why cup cakes come out fluffier even with same recipe? That's because it didn't pass through too much heat!

5⃣ SIEVE YOUR FLOUR!

Sieving of flour is not just to remove dirt. It entraps air into the batter.

Seive directly into your batter and use the fold in method.

6⃣ DON'T OVER MIX!

Whether you are using a mixer or by hand, reduce the speed when u are adding flour.

Use the fold in method!

7⃣ EXPOSURE TO OPEN AIR

Don't expose your baked cake to open air especially during dry season. Wrap it in a cling film.

I love you all ♥💕😍

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17/11/2022

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12/11/2022

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20/10/2022

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26/09/2022

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08/09/2022

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05/08/2022

Don’t feel disappointed when you see people ahead of you. Start enjoying where you are; you will never feel left behind.

In the journey of life, we all are walking at our own pace. We often look at those walking ahead and feel we have not achieved much in life. When we don’t see worth in what we already have or where we are, we chase other people’s dreams only to end up where they wanted to be. In the end, we find nothing but disappointment.

Appreciate what you have and where you are in your life. Make an effort to achieve your goals but don’t feel disappointed if you are slow. It truly doesn’t matter where you are in life; your journey is successful as long as you are happy.

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02/08/2022

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EVENT STYLING & DECORATION
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DRINKS MAKING
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We provide one-on-one training as well as short/intensive training for people with time constraints.
Fees are super affordable. Pick a form at just 100 cedis at either our Madina or Oyarifa offices.
Call 0244096018 for further enquiries. See you soon😍