A couple of weeks ago, Les Petits Chefs baking club worked with sweet shortcrust pastry – always a popular item to work with because “it’s just like Play Doh, only tastier” 😉 Lots of people are intimidated by pastry but it’s actually much easier than you think and kids, particularly, are fearless, so they just … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! Today I’m bringing you a riff on a favourite pastry, inspired by Dorie Greenspan’s latest project – Playing Around! Yes, that’s right – as well as being a bestselling cookbook author, Dorie’s recently launched a newsletter and just the other week launched an invitation to bake together with a community … Read more
Happy (nearly) Easter! Today’s recipe is a happy accident, inspired by one of my cooking club member’s sisters who cooks along with her brother some weeks (one silver lining of the pandemic is that I get to cook and bake with not just my students but also their families, as they are at home for … Read more
I don’t think it’s any secret how much I love working with choux pastry… I’ve written about it extensively here on this site… and it’s one of my favourite classes to teach too! I’ve made choux pastry with my cooking club before as well – profiteroles for Christmas, chouquettes and gougères, just to name a … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie assignment was “Tiger Cakes” so-called because of the “stripes” formed by finely chopped chocolate that is folded through the mixture at the last minute and which forms stripes through the cake. The cake itself is a lovely mix of lots of butter (of course!), almond flour, a touch of all-purpose … Read more
As a food blogger, I won’t deny there are certain, shall we say, perks. Including receiving large boxes of edible goodies like the box of Green & Black’s organic chocolate bars I received recently to bake with and review. I’ll admit that for me to set aside chocolate to bake with can sometimes be hard … Read more