CategoryPastry experiments

My first wedding cakes for my first client!

I know, I was absent from the blog in the past days, but I was utterly justified: I was working

Enthusiastic about the brioche des rois that I had bought yesterday, I decided to make a brioche myself. It was

As soon as January 6th arrives, all bakeries of France fill up with “galettes des rois“, the three kings’ cakes.

I had always been a bit sceptic about tarts, and especially about fruit tarts, but this made me change my

This was my attempt at a Torte, aka “modern cake” (which is a cake made of many different individual layers

As I said in the previous post, now that I had ladyfingers, I had to make a Charlotte. It is

As soon as I saw a picture of these ladyfingers in the recipe, I decided I had to try to

One of the pastry fundamentals that can be declined in many different versions is the pâte à choux, the one

What I’ve always loved about professional cakes is their perfectly smooth chocolate icing. I’ve always wondered how it is done.