FIRST, a French friend brings a spectacular homemade dessert to dinner. It’s a Paris-Brest -- a large ring of choux paste sliced horizontally, filled with praline pastry cream and whipped cream and ...

We all love choux, these fluffy buns from France, filled with custard or whipped cream ! Here is the simpliest recipe ever to achieve this classic pastry ! In a pot, put the water to heat with the ...

"Pate a choux sounds like a ballet step," my friend exclaimed when I told her I was writing about it. The French name, pate a choux, has never become part of America's mainstream culinary jargon. But ...

The world of baking is vast, filled with techniques that can stump even the most experienced baker. Two such baking ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Across the world, Easter has given us some of our best-loved baked goods: Shrove Tuesday semla in ...

Meant to be a showstopper, this celebratory dessert doesn't just look impressive — it's delicious too! It gets its wonderful flavour from elderflower crème Chiboust, caramel sauce and the lemony zing ...

WHEN my four-year-old daughter chose this recipe from her new children’s cookbook, I must admit my first thought was to wonder if the book’s compiler had had a temporary moment of insanity.