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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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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 

Enriched yeast doughs
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Recipe: Burger buns

Milk bread is a recipe that is present in any pastry fundamentals book. And I ignored it on purpose with 

Enriched yeast doughs
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Recipe: Milk bread dough

A pastry chef in a bakery is often responsible for viennoiseries as well. Viennoiseries are products halfway between bread and pastry, 

Frozen desserts
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Recipe: Mango sorbet

Now that you know how to cut a mango like a boss, you can make a purée out of it and 

Tips
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Tip: How to peel and cut a mango

Mango is one of my favourite tropical fruits and its unique spicy-sweet and tangy flavour can be easily appreciated by many. 

Frozen desserts
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Recipe: Vacherin with ice cream and sorbet

Summer is the perfect season to enjoy fresh desserts. Or even better, frozen desserts! This time I decided to put 

Recipes
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Tips: How to spice up a fruit salad

You don’t necessarily need to master dozens of pastry skills nor spend hours to make an interesting and flavourful dessert! 

Meringues
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Recipe: Baked French meringues

Before going through this simple recipe, let me recap one important thing: meringues are simply a mixture of egg whites 

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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Recipe: Pistachio macarons (with Italian meringue)

Some time ago I decided to make green macarons and so I bought a powdered green colouring (which for some

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This is one of the pastry “secrets” that differentiate a home-baker from a “pro”. I’m talking about this super-shiny chocolate

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Now that I don’t have to “study” for my pastry exam anymore and I don’t have to prepare the old-fashioned,

Recipe: Mille-feuille (Cream Napoleon)

You can’t go more classical than this! The mille-feuille is a traditional French pastry that can be found in any

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So yes, last month I celebrated my birthday. 29 years. For the third time. For some, a birthday is a

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