For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.
On a wooden tray that’s just been set on a marble tabletop inside the sumptuous F. Scott Fitzgerald suite at the Ritz Paris hotel, lies a trio of long, slim, oblong-shaped pastries that look vaguely ...
Brioche, macarons, chouquettes, pate de fruits, and — of course — croissants abound all around this European sweets superstar. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 ...
Plus, I found the best gluten-free option on the market. Puff pastry is not high on my list of foods I like to make from scratch. It’s time-consuming and labor-intensive and I’d much rather be eating ...
TikTok food trends come and go. Don’t even get me started on the baked feta pasta (I was not a fan) or butter boards (I kind of was a fan, embarrassingly). A few are delicious, some are gimmicky and ...
Liberate the pastry sheets in your freezer and whip up pizza, doughnuts, turnovers, and more. I recently found myself with leftover puff pastry after making the most delicious French Onion Baked Brie.