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 ...

Whether you realize it or not, choux pastry (or pâte à choux) is the foundation for so many delicious desserts like eclairs and cream puffs. Yes, it is a major part of the French pastry arts—which ...

Choux pastry is a pillar of the pastry world. Made out of a few pantry staples, this humble dough is the foundation of many sensational desserts. While you’ve surely seen it adorning bakery pastry ...

Rich, creamy desserts have a timeless appeal that never fails to satisfy, no matter the occasion or trend. That velvety, ...

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The best cakes are the ones that have guests sneaking back for a second slice when they think no one's watching. These ...

MANILA, Philippines — What is a Choux au Craquelin? Choux is a pastry, more like pate choux, which is a bread-like pastry batter used to make cream puffs and eclairs. A craquelin is a thin cookie that ...

Pate a Choux is known in the pastry world as one of the most useful forms of dough, when it comes to sugary-sweet confections. It creates the shell for everything from cream puffs to the St. Honoré ...

Cocktail weenies are a necessity for a proper Super Bowl, whether you’re alone or hosting 20 exuberant guests. Wrapping Lit’l Smokies in blankets of pastry is a traditional move, but for those who ...

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 ...

For the final episode, the bakers produced these elaborate croquembouches. They were absolutely masterpieces, in my opinion. I've had occasion to enjoy a croquembouche or two in my time, but they were ...