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Milk chocolate, caramel and apple yule log

Christmas time is the best time of the year to bake. Seems like everybody wants to do it, and everybody

No-bake cheesecake with fig and damson plum confit

September is the month of figs and Damson plums. Believe it or not, this is the first time in my life

How to make homemade Oreos

I have never understood the passion that food bloggers have for Oreos! I think they taste a lot of sugar and not

Video: Strawberry, rhubarb and almond tart

If there is one thing I like in pastry is… challenges! Any new recipe or experiment, especially if it comes

Video: Croissants

One day my Italian friend Chiara asked me to teach her how to make croissants. I agreed right away, because

Video: Simple round brioches

That’s it, I’ve made the purchase of the decade: my new stand mixer. It took me years to make up

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Yule logs
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Recipe: “Totally hazelnuts” Christmas yule log with praline mousseline cream

And here comes again that time of the year! The time of crazy shopping, snow, colourful lights and decorations all 

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 

Cakes
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Recipe: Modern vanilla poundcake (Quatre quarts/Torta paradiso)

The poundcake, or “quatre quarts” as they call it in French, is the traditional cake everyone is (or should be) 

Pastry shops
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Pastry on the road: “L’éclair de genie” in Paris

A recent trend in pastry is mono-product shops. Some sell only macarons, some only cream puffs, some only cupcakes or 

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 

Macarons
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Milk chocolate and coconut macarons (Italian meringue)

These are for all the Bounty lovers out there! As you know, Bounty is a famous snack with milk chocolate 

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 

Laminated doughs
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Recipe: Savoury puff pastry appetizers

Whenever you have guests over, it’s good to offer an appetizer before a meal, right? And if you don’t want to 

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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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