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Gâteau Saint Honoré – Saint Honoré Cake
Gâteau Saint Honoré is a traditional French/European dessert. Saint Honoré is the patron saint of bakers. A quick note, about the scale of the one I made – it looks like a croquembouche because it needed to feed ~10-12 people. Normally these seem to be smaller (2-4 people) – but making more of them. This would make a […]
Cream Puffs – pâte à choux (pate a choux)
January 11, 2013
Another classic, basic pastry, pâte à choux, can be used to make all sorts of awesome things fairly quickly. From cream puffs, to eclairs, to savory gougères, it’s a good trick to have up your sleeve. The Alton Brown episode where he makes pate a choux is awesome, by the way, like most things he does. 1.0 pâte à choux Ingredients: 1 1⁄2 […]
Puff Pastry
January 10, 2013
Also known as pâte feuilletée. There are many recipes for “quick” puff pastry, with a food processor – but this one turns out nicer. It is based on an old post from my favorite food blog (she’s since moved and is now ) You make two doughs, and then role them together. The first is the […]
Assembling a Piping Bag
December 29, 2012
At some point recently – it was brought to my attention that people aren’t born with the innate ability to assemble pastry bags. I don’t remember ever being taught this – though I’ve been decorating cakes since like pre-school – so it’s a bit unfair of me to assume people know how to do this. […]
sam makes sweets 
January 15, 2013
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