Cheeses, sauces, casseroles, breads... France has earned its culinary fame, but if there is one area where it has an advantage, it is in pastries. Not only for the butter (which is also), but for that ...
Joanne Chang's recipe for chocolate-coated éclairs hews fairly close to the traditional French dessert, with puffy pâte à choux, custardy crème pâtissière, and a bittersweet chocolate glaze. Whipped ...
Pate a choux is the stuff of magic in the kitchen. Pipe a soft, sticky dough onto a baking sheet and slide it into a hot oven. In mere minutes the dough puffs up -- practically exploding to double, ...
DivertissonsNous - Paris-Brest praline: the simple French recipe you can master at home in ...
Croquembouche, the French pastry popularized in the early 19th century, is suddenly back on the banquet table. Seeking to evoke “a meeting of wise characters coming from a fantasy world,” the ...