Salted Caramel Eclairs! Crisp pastry shells filled with luscious salted caramel pastry cream and topped with a glaze of salted caramelized sugar. In a professional pastry kitchen we don’t reinvent the wheel for every single dish. We have a repertoire of what I call “essential recipes”. Pate a Choux and Pastry Cream are two of …
Chocolate Macarons are delicate and delicious little bites of heaven. Use dark cocoa powder in the macaron shells then sandwich the cookies with Milk Chocolate Ganache to create layers of chocolatey goodness. Have you been afraid to make French macarons? You can do it! Follow my recipe exactly, read through the tips and look at …
Silky Milk Chocolate Ganache has just 3 ingredients and comes together in mere minutes. Use it to make truffles, to fill a cake or as a glaze. The possibilities are endless. You can use Milk Chocolate to make Ganache! I bet when you hear the word “ganache” you immediately think of a luscious, dark chocolate treat …
They say “less is more” and this elegant Pear Custard Tart is a perfect example of that sentiment. Pears have an understated flavor which are perfectly enhanced by vanilla bean custard and a crackly caramelized sugar glaze. Tips for making a perfect Pear Custard Tart: Use a fluted tart pan with a removeable bottom for …
These Cornmeal Biscuits are rich and fluffy. They have a light crunch and great taste from the cornmeal. A honey glaze is the perfect finish. When I created my Flaky Buttermilk Biscuit recipe, I found if I made a fairly wet dough, and folded that dough a couple of times, I was able to make …
Sourdough Oatmeal Cookies! Buttery oatmeal cookie dough is enhanced with a whole cup of sourdough discard. The cookies are topped with a lemony glaze to compliment the sourdough tang. Can we have too many oatmeal cookie recipes? Definitely not! I’m obsessed with my original Oatmeal Cookies with maple glaze and my Iced Apple Oatmeal Cookies. …
Cranberry Crumb Pie celebrates the gloriously tangy flavor of the indigenous American berry. The pure cranberry filling is perfectly complimented by a sweet and cinnamony brown sugar crumb topping. Ever wonder why we rarely see recipes for all cranberry pie? Apple-Cranberry, sure. Raspberry-Cranberry, sometimes. I adore the assertively tart flavor of cranberries and wanted to …
Jelly Roll Cake is a classic treat that is truly easy to make. Light and airy vanilla cake is the perfect wrapping for sweet, tangy raspberry preserves. This is a great make-ahead recipe. The light and airy cake at the heart of this recipe is a chiffon cake. Chiffon is one of my favorite sponge …
Italian Rainbow Cookies are really more cake than cookie. Either way, they are as tasty as they are beautiful. They look impressive but are surprisingly easy to make. If you’re from New York or New Jersey (Jersey girl here), you probably remember seeing Rainbow Cookies sold by the pound in every Italian Bakery. But you …
Spekkoek is a Dutch Indonesian spice cake sometimes called Thousand Layer Cake in English. The cake is rich with butter and eggs and it’s flavored with an intoxicating mix of spices. The name for this cake is Spekkoek in Dutch and Spekuk in Indonesian. The recipe was created during Dutch East Indian colonial times. The …
You’ll love these Sourdough Pretzel Rolls. A generous helping of sourdough starter gives these rolls a slightly sweet and complex flavor to compliment the extra dark, distinctively “pretzely” crust. Learn a trick for the best pretzel flavor. I’m a big fan of pretzels in all forms. I love the pleasantly-bitter flavor of a good pretzel …