Recipes for pastries, such as Danish
Yesterday I made Passion Fruit Curd and Lemon Curd Tarts, but I had a disaster with the video. So although I posted the recipe on this blog I couldn’t post the video on Youtube. So I decided to make something else today, just to get something on Youtube. I decided upon a suggestion from my […]
I recently bought some Passion Fruit Curd, which was delicious, so I decided to make some myself adn see how it turned out. Mine tastes great too, so I just had to make some tart cases to use the curd in. Since I didn’t have enough curd to fill 12 mini tart cases I used […]
Eccles Cakes are named after a town in Lancashire, England. They are made with a flaky pastry, though some people use puff pastry, and have a spicy currant and chopped peel filling. I really like Eccles Cakes, and especially the lovely flaky pastry. I make mine with all butter, using a recipe from BBC Good […]
I have been wanting to make some Danish Pastries for quite a while, but I have put it off as the process is quite time consuming. However today I finally bit the bullet and made some. The lovely puff pastry that is so redolent of Danish pastries, in various shapes and filled with any number […]
I have wanted to make croissants for some time, as I love them with that lovely fluffy texture and the rich buttery taste. I looked at a number of recipes and watched quite a few videos before deciding how to proceed. I used a recipe from Paul Hollywood who is a judge on Great British Bake […]
For apple turnovers I made an inverted puff pastry. The amount in the recipe will actually make twice as much dough as needed for 8 turnovers, so I will freeze half of the dough to use in another recipe in a couple of weeks. To make inverted puff pastry you need to make a thick […]
Arlettes are a puff pastry biscuit(cookie) that I had never heard of. But it was featured as a technical challenge on Great British Bake Off a few weeks ago. The recipe then appeared on BBC Food and it seemed an ideal challenge for me to try. This recipe calls for reverse(or inverse) puff pastry. Usually with […]
I became more than a little adventurous today, deciding to make choux pastry again. This time I decided on a sort of cream puff, but instead of just whipped cream I decided to put some strawberry slices in as well and then top with a lovely caramel icing, and let it drip down the side […]
On my way home from Prague I was at Ruzyne airport when I saw some Palmiers for sale. They were very large and looked scrumptious. So I bought one and just loved it. Crispy, crunchy and nice and sweet too. So I decided I would try to make some. They are also known as Elephants’s […]
I wanted to make some Jam Tarts, always a favourite, particularly with children. But I was so enamoured of the pastry I made for my Cherry Bakewells, since it was crumbly and almost melt in the mouth, that I decided to use that recipe, rather than a more traditional one. Often the pastry in Jam […]