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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 

Ice creams
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Recipe: Vanilla ice cream

This is an all-time favourite of mine! My ice cream machine was definitely a good investment since it allows me 

Pâte à choux
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Recipe: Cream puffs with pastry cream

I had seen them in every single bakery, in all sizes and flavours, ever since I was born… and I 

Pâte à choux
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Recipe: Éclair paste (Pâte à choux)

Pâte à choux is the basic (fundamental!) dough that can be used to bake cream puffs (choux) or éclairs, among 

Quick breads
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Pancakes on Mardi Gras

Did you know that Mardi Gras is also called Pancake Tuesday? I didn’t, because the tradition of eating pancakes on 

Creams, custards and sauces
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Almond cream

One of the basic creams I need to be able to make for my exam is the one with almonds. 

Laminated doughs
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Puff pastry – Pâte feuilletée

Butter, butter, butter! Puff pastry is basically flour, water, and (lots of) butter. It is nevertheless one of the greatest 

Recipes
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The big scary puff pastry – Not so difficult in the end, uh…

I made it!!! I finally made it! Today I feel like the king of puff pastry! One of the basic 

Creams, custards and sauces, Recipes
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Pastry cream

The queen of all creams is pastry cream. It is the first recipe I learnt in my 3-hour course at 

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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

Recipe: Chocolate mirror glaze

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

Recipe: Pistachio paste

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

Recipe: Diplomat cream

In the past, I wrote on the blog about Chiboust cream or mousseline cream, which are variations on pastry cream with the

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