desserts made from choux pastry
![]() | Recipes : Tarte Tatin This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ... |
![]() | Recipes : Shortbread pastry Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ... |
![]() | Recipes : Round cake for the Twelfth Night As you can see, you have several opportunities : a "dry" cake (without any stuffing)or a cake stuffed with almond cream ... |
![]() | Recipes : Petits Suisses Tart Sprinkled with bitter chocolate Makes 1 tart for 6 guests 1 shortcut pastry shell (made with butter, fresh or froz... |
![]() | Recipes : Shortcrust pastry Ingredients for a shortcrust pastry for a nice tart : 250 grams wheat flour 125 grams soft butter 3 grams table sal... |
![]() | Recipes : Hazelnut and Chocolate Pastilla The "pastilla" recipe was originally a recipe from North Africa, mainly from Morroco, made with pigeons. I have made a ... |
![]() | Recipes : Home-made Yoghurts A very simple recipe for home-made yoghurts For 6 pots : 1 liter whole milk (whole milk is recommended to get unctuo... |
![]() | Recipes : Huckleberry Pie Huckleberry Pie for 4/6 persons : 2/3 lb fresh or frozen huckleberries 2 tablespoonfuls huckleberry jam 1 circle (siz... |
![]() | Recipes : Andouillette The andouillette is spicy sausage from the Troyes region, just 150 Km southeast of Paris, in the Champagne Region. It is... |
![]() | Recipes : Flaky pastry Ingredients : 250 g (8 to 9 oz) wheat flour 200 g (7 oz) butter 1/10 liter (3 to 4 fl oz) water 5 g (1 small traspoo... |
![]() | Recipes : Anglaise sauce or French Custard This custard recipe is the base of several recipes,from desserts accompaniments sauces to ice-cream mixes for chocolate ... |
![]() | Recipes : Spooned Biscuits Spooned biscuits were originaly round shaped. They took the name "spooned" biscuits by the fact that they were shaped an... |
![]() | Recipes : Confectioner's custard This custard is a basis for numerous desserts like cakes, tarts, soufflés etc... Serving for a large bowl of confecti... |
![]() French specialties : Mirabelle plum Brandy The Mirabelle plum is a small fruit typical from Lorraine whose origins are lost in the mists of time. The tradition wou... |
![]() French specialties : Noyau de Poissy In Poissy, people frequently say that the Noyau de Poissy is one of the oldest liquors of France. Served as of the XVIIt... |
![]() | News : The round cake for the Twelfth Night This is the oldest cake in history ; we now know that the first ones were made during the neolithic age. They were prepa... |
![]() | News : Kir Mr Félix Kir (born in 1876 in Côte d'Or, in the heart of Burgundy) was a canon, ordained as a catholic priest in 1901. ... |
![]() | News : Prepare you home-made 'foie gras' If you have visited our site for some time, I bet you have, one day, desired to prepare your home-made 'foie gras'. May... |
![]() | News : The Arpajon bean fair My arrival into this fair sent me back in the years when I participated to those contests. The age coming, I was invited... |
![]() | News : A so nice journey It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r... |
![]() | News : Without gluten recipes Today we will deal with this harmful decease that is intolerance to gluten (or so called coeliac decease). In fact, this... |
![]() | News : A few days in Burgundy As usual during this calamitous August, we leave Paris under the rain to Val de Mercy. I know pretty well this region be... |
![]() | News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne. "Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and... |
![]() | News : Towards the discovery of the Yoghurts It happened in very ancient times, at the fringes of the Balkanic peninsula and of Turkey that one started to find the f... |
![]() | News : Maghreb cooking After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou... |
![]() | News : AVPA 2008 contest : oil, honey and dry fruit Like in 2007, Patrick Asfaux was part of the trial jury of the AVPA (Agence pour la Valorisation des Produits Agricoles ... |
![]() | News : Queen Tomato's paradise Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | News : Chef Asfaux in jail ! "Listen, I know that you are very busy but couldn't you find some availability to coach a tasting workshop in the scope ... |
![]() | News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
answer to Jay
Hi Jay This recipe is the one of the pastry AS A BASE for some desserts. Of course, it is not intented to be eaten by i...
answer to Daphne
Hello Daphne In France, such bags of "sucre vanillé" contains approximately 10 grams (1/3 oz) : precisely 7.5 grams. If...
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i made this the other day and it was absolutly delicious on top of that my family wants me to make it some more and want...
French Food
Hello I'm Katie And I Love French Food I Made A Snail Dish For My Fellow Friends Please Reply Katie x x ...
answer to Lily
Hi Lily, Are you in Washington DC or in the State of Washington ? Do you want to bring something you can find all made ...









































