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TagEgg yolks

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 

Cakes, Featured
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My very first video: Tiramisù (with pasteurised eggs)

Guys, you simply cannot imagine how excited I am about this post! First of all, I’ve just made the most amazing 

Cakes
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Framboisier (Creamy raspberry cake)

I’ve had quite a busy time in the last weeks. I was abroad for work for around 20 days, went 

Tarts
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Recipe: Strawberry tart with pastry cream

Since the beginning of spring, I keep on being super tired. As we say in Italian: “April, sleeping is sweet” (which is 

Laminated doughs
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Recipe: Pasteis de nata (Portuguese custard tarts)

French pastry is good, but it’s not the only one in the world! After a virtual tasty trip to Austria for 

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: 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) 

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 

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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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