Snacks: For an easy snack that's sure to impress, try these flaky vanilla twists. A creamy pastry cream, two crispy puff pastry sheets, and a sprinkle of pearl sugar to finish it all off. Follow our ...

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, ...

There are two kinds of pastry lovers. The first orders a pastry and savors it in a moment of bliss, oblivious to the world. The second orders a few pastries and enjoys bites of each, acutely attuned ...

My basement looks like a Williams-Sonoma store — if Williams-Sonoma had a thrift shop division. I have amassed an extensive collection of cooking implements during my visits to thrift and antique ...