This Merveilleux recipe will remind you why you love French pastries. These decadent meringue sandwich cookies are filled with chocolate whipped cream, covered in more cream and rolled in chocolate shavings. Oh là là… This recipe is a chocoholics dream and it is truly not hard to make. If you can whip egg whites, you …
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 …
You’ll love this Cherry Strudel made with tart cherries and crisp phyllo dough. It’s perfect for dessert or brunch. For my first job out of pastry school I worked for a very well-known Austrian pastry chef. I learned to make strudel from him and we always used phyllo dough. I’ve been making strudel with phyllo …
Homemade Almond Croissants are totally worth the effort. To have warm, almond filled croissants for breakfast, proof them overnight and bake in the morning. Almond Croissants can be made with either yeasted Croissant dough or, if you’ve got an active starter, you can make Sourdough Almond Croissants. Either way, they’re luscious. Scroll through the step …
Sourdough Baba au Rhum! A classic pastry updated with the addition of sourdough starter. The enriched cake is doused with rum syrup and brushed with apricot glaze for a kick of fruit flavor. Top the babas with whipped cream for a luscious finish. I’ve said it a million times: How do you make a good …
Baba au Rhum! This classic pastry features enriched yeasted cake doused with rum syrup. The babas are brushed with apricot glaze for a kick of fruit flavor and topped with whipped cream for a luscious finish. If you want to make a sophisticated dessert, look no further. Baba au Rhum is a grown up dessert …
Sourdough Kouign-Amann is a crisp, buttery, sweet and delicious treat made with layers of fermented dough, butter and sugar. No exaggeration, this might be the most delicious pastry I’ve ever tasted. Have you ever heard of Kouign-Amann? This French pastry is a real gem. The name comes from the Breton words for cake (kouign) and …
Kouign-Amann is a crisp, buttery, sweet and delicious treat made with layers of yeasted dough, butter and sugar. No exaggeration, this might be the most delicious pastry I’ve ever tasted. Have you heard of Kouign-Amann? This French pastry is a real gem. The name comes from the Breton words for cake (kouign) and butter (amann). …
These beautiful Cheese Danish are made with real Danish pastry dough and a vanilla cheesecake filling. You can let the Danish pastry rise in the refrigerator overnight and bake it first thing in the morning. You’ll find lots of Danish recipes that use puff pastry dough or even phyllo dough as a shortcut. Those are …
This beautiful Apple Danish Braid is made with real Danish pastry dough and filled with fresh apples. You can let the Danish pastry rise in the refrigerator overnight and bake it first thing in the morning. You can find lots of Danish braid recipes that use puff pastry dough or even phyllo dough as a …