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CategoryCreams, custards and sauces

Creams, custards and sauces
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How to make a chocolate mousse with pasteurized eggs

One of my favourite cakes is the Chocolate Royal, a marvelous and elegant entremet with a chocolate mousse and crunchy 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Brigadeiros (Brazilian chocolate fudge truffles)

Last year I went to São Paulo for work and it didn’t take me long to fall in love with Brazilians: 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Cherry clafoutis, with a crumble twist

So I’m late once again. I can’t help it, I’m always late in general, and I make the same mistake 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Praline paste

This one of those recipes for which I keep on telling myself “How did I survive without it?“! I discovered 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Chocolate mousse (with pâte à bombe)

Reminder: mousses are airy desserts made of chocolate or fruits, whipped egg yolks or egg whites or both and often 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Dark chocolate shot glass dessert

The hardest part of this recipe is translating the French name of the dessert: “verrine“. (This just means that the rest is super 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Vanilla custard sauce (Crème anglaise)

After all pastry creams, Chantilly creams, almond creams (and so on…), welcome to the kingdom of sauces! Sauces are liquid 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Lemon curd

Curds are a type of stirred custards made with eggs, sugar, fruit juice and butter. Sugar is essential to create the 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Baked crème brûlée (Cambridge burnt cream)

The baked crème brûlée is one of the few desserts I knew before getting serious about pastry. I would have 

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Hi, my name is Rob, I work in IT but I love baking and I also got a pastry diploma. I created this blog to keep track of my journey from complete beginner to world pastry champion (I'm not there yet).

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