*DRRRRRRRRUMROLL PLEASESSSSS*
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s presenting the fruit tarts and choux pastry I baked for my nephew’s birthday part…
- A total of 32 fruit tarts and 42 cream puff shells -
It does look like quite a massive project isn’t it?
Frankly, it isn’t that bad; it’s just awfully time consuming considering that it’s a […]
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Woah! The weekend is here again, and it is going to be so filled with baking activities for me!
Due to some unforseen circumstances, the party attending my nephew’s birthday celebration has suddenly increased by 10 persons to over 30 in total now. Minor adjustments have to be made to my initial plan. That’s really fine by me. […]
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Came home this evening and decided to try baking cream puffs again. This time, I’m intent on making sure that the whipping cream turns out fine.
As expected, the choux pastry turned out as beautiful as yesterday’s batch (which, by the way, is probably in the stomachs of my Dad’s employees since morning). I have to […]
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Well, I did bake some choux pastry last night while nursing a migraine at the same time. The choux pastry turned out perfect! It was an effortless effort on my part (well, unless you count chasing 2 greedy dogs out of the kitchen as effort), and I was wondering the whole night why my 2 classmates […]
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With some time at hand, I have decided I will have another go at baking choux pastry since the first time I encountered this pastry during my baking class. I confess my interest in choux pastry has been stirred ever since 2 of my ex-classmates from that class (who are now also my classmates in […]
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The grand finale of the pastry-making class I have been attending… Choux (pronounced as “shoo”) pastry! Don’t the cream puffs, chocolate eclairs and swan pastries look delectable? Yummy!
Choux pastries are a lot easier to bake than I imagine them to be. But I seriously need more practice in learning how to pipe the roux. The […]
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Learnt how to prepare and bake puff pastries during baking class on Saturday namely: - tuna puff, cream horn and danish pastries - using the 3/4 pastry method.
It was quite an eye-opener. Never knew that the laminating of the fat required that much work, not to mention the time required between the folds to allow […]
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