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, ...

I once made puff pastry from scratch. That’s why I now buy it at the store. When done right, puff pastry is almost supernatural. You take a thin, flat piece of dough, bake it, and it puffs up into a ...