{"id":2359,"date":"2013-11-08T20:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:20:53","slug":"recipe-saint-honore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/recipes\/cakes\/recipe-saint-honore","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Saint-Honor\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for a challenge<\/strong>? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After months of hesitation<\/strong>, I finally found the courage to face one of the behemoths of pastry<\/strong>: the famous Saint-Honor\u00e9 cake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the Saint-Honor\u00e9 cake?<\/h3>\n

A Saint-Honor\u00e9 is a complex cake<\/strong> with a base of puff pastry<\/strong> and choux pastry<\/strong>, a ring of caramel-glazed cream puffs<\/strong> on the border and a Chiboust cream<\/strong> filling.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The different components of a Saint-Honor\u00e9 cake<\/p><\/div>\n

It is traditionally decorated by using a piping bag fitted with the St. Honor\u00e9 tip.<\/p>\n

The somewhat-tricky<\/strong> Chiboust cream today is often replaced<\/strong> with a lighter Chantilly cream, and sometimes the base is made of tart dough rather than puff pastry. For this post, though, I tried to respect the traditional recipe<\/strong> as much as possible.<\/p>\n

\"Recipe---Saint-Honore---Step-14\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s the story behind the Saint-Honor\u00e9?<\/h3>\n

This famous French g\u00e2teau<\/strong> was created in the 1800’s by a pastry chef named Chiboust<\/strong>, who had a shop in Rue Saint Honor\u00e9.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a side note, a baker in 1202<\/strong> offered his money to build a chapel<\/strong> in Paris in honour of Saint Honor\u00e9: the chapel became one of the richest of the city and in 1400, the bakers of Paris established their guild <\/strong>in the church of “Saint Honoratus”, who is now the patron saint of bakers.<\/p>\n

Techniques you need to master for a Saint Honor\u00e9<\/h3>\n

Oh, so you like the Saint-Honor\u00e9 and you would like to make it. Fine, I just hope this is not the first pastry attempt of your life! \ud83d\ude42<\/em>
\nThis cake is not impossible at all, but it requires a lot of time<\/strong>, a good mastery of some fundamental techniques<\/strong>, and most importantly of all a perfect organisation and planning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Recipe<\/a>

I was so happy with the decoration that I had to ruin it with the last touches \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

I suggest you try the following techniques at least once<\/strong> before attacking the Saint-Honor\u00e9:<\/p>\n