Pastry cream – Crème pâtissière
Pastry cream is made from milk, egg yolk and sugar and a thickening ingredient: cornstarch or flour. Flavoured with pure vanilla, often used in French pastry
Sweet cooking basics
Alsacian Streusel Crisp
Streusel is a traditional crumble topping from East France Alsace. Cinnamon and hazelnut or almond powder are added to the classic butter – sugar – flour mix.
Dairy-free French Crepes with Hazelnut Milk
No fat no lactose no resting time Delicious nutty taste due to plant-based milk Hazelnut gives an amazing twist to French crepes thin pancakes
French Crêpe Batter with Chestnut Flour
These French-style crêpes thin pancakes have a little twist as they are prepared with chestnut flour. It gives an incredible taste, a must try.
French Sweet Shortbread Pastry Crust
A sweet buttery flavor with a crispy texture for your tarts. Quick and easy, ideal for no-bake pies. This basic dough may also be used for cheesecakes.
Cinnamon Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
This pie crust is perfect for your fruit pies. Cinnamon gives a twist to your dough, such as the very simple (and a basic French home cooking) apple tart.
Gaufres French Waffles
This is the perfect recipe for light waffles both fluffy inside and and crisp outside. For kids breakfast or snacks … but not only!
Oatmeal Crumble Topping
For your crumbles, oatmeal gives an incredible crunchy texture to the topping. With butter and sugar of course … and a flour-oatmeal mixture.
French Crepes Easy Recipe, Advices, Tips & Tricks
Crepes French-style thin pancakes. Batter easy recipe and advices, tips and tricks do make delicious crepes as in France. Topping suggestions
Roll Cake
This light and easy to roll up sponge cake is ideal for jelly roll or yule log Christmas cake, as we usually serve in France for Christmas.
Pie Crust
There are many different recipes of pie crunch: with or without butter, with or without almond powder, with different proportion of ingredients, adding the ingredients in different orders – the flour first or at the end -, handmade or using a food processor…
I choose this recipe, from Christophe Felder, because it is simple and easy to roll out.
How to Make Perfect Choux Pastry
The basic pâte à choux / choux pastry recipe, great for baking French classic pastries such as chouquettes, profiteroles, gougères…