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    • The Art of French Pastry

French Pastry Fundamentals

  • Recipe 1 of 61: Pâte à choux / Choux paste

  • Recipe 2 of 61: Brioche

  • Recipe 3 of 61: Pastry Cream

    • Salambos, a French pastry I’d never heard of unt Salambos, a French pastry I’d never heard of until I started baking through “The Art of French Pastry”! Look at that beauty 😍 Smooth and thin caramel, toasted almond, absolutely FILLED with vanilla bean pastry cream-I was SO excited when I saw that I had filled them correctly! I tried making salambos back in 2017 when I first started my baking journey, and things did not turn out as well...click on the link in my bio to see what I did wrong as well as learn more about salambos and the RIGHT way to make them ☺️ And like always when I spend all day baking, I passed out early with Puds on the couch...and Tim took a photo of the two of us 💜 #salambos #salambo #sweetforcertain #theartoffrenchpastry #pastrylove #learningblog #bakingblog #pastry #pastrycream #vanilla #vanillabean #pateachoux #cremepatissiere #frenchpastry #frenchpastryclassics
    A new blog post will be coming as soon as I finish A new blog post will be coming as soon as I finish working through some issues with the developers...like where the pagination went 🤷🏼‍♀️ In the meantime, more experimenting! I had some leftover passion fruit curd from a recipe for my blog (yum!), so I decided to make macarons filled with passion fruit curd and marshmallow frosting! You can see the marshmallow frosting’s texture in the video 😋 Personally, I wasn’t a fan of both of these together; however, separately they are SO GOOD. I plan on tweaking this recipe with a white chocolate Italian meringue buttercream instead of the marshmallow, and I think it’ll be spot on 👍🏼 Passion fruit is one of my favorite flavors, and I’ll definitely use the marshmallow for another recipe...s’more macarons perhaps? #macaron #macarons #passionfruit #marshmallow #sweetforcertain #macaronstagram #macaronslady #macaronlover #macaronlove #macaronmonday #passionfruitcurd #marshmallowfrosting
    I’m having fun experimenting this week! Cherry c I’m having fun experimenting this week! Cherry cheesecake macs with hidden cherries inside 🍒 I need to amp up the cherry flavor and add a lot more cream cheese to the frosting before the recipe is perfected as it wasn’t strong enough, but overall I liked the outcome! A perfect treat for the holiday weekend ❤️🤍💙 #macaron #macarons #cherry #blackcherries #cheesecake #fourthofjuly #holiday #sweetforcertain #summermacarons #macaronstagram #macaronslady #macaronlover
    My guys 💙 Pudsy is definitely a mama’s boy, b My guys 💙 Pudsy is definitely a mama’s boy, but since I’m back at work and Tim is working from home, they’re spending a lot of time together, and it’s adorable 🥰
    Pastry cream, aka heaven’s filling for all pastr Pastry cream, aka heaven’s filling for all pastries and desserts 💜 Learn along with me on my blog! Link in bio 🥰 #pastrycream #theartoffrenchpastry #sweetforcertain #vanillabean #fundamentalsofbaking #learningblog
    🎉 Sweet Joel turned 2 years old today 🥳 My s 🎉 Sweet Joel turned 2 years old today 🥳 My sister made the cutest puppy cake balls, Chloe and Micah decorated the house with streamers, balloons, and the number 2 everywhere (you can see a 2 taped to his shirt in pictures 5 and 7 that Micah drew), and Joel was his silly self and had fun all day ☺️ I included a video from 2018 when I took the kids to meet their new baby brother as well as one of the first pictures of him and I 💙
    🌈 Little rainbows on this stormy night ☔️ I 🌈 Little rainbows on this stormy night ☔️ I made a recipe that called for six egg yolks yesterday, so obviously I had to make macarons with the leftover whites! I didn’t plan very well though-I realized after making the macarons that I only had half a bag of the white chocolate chips I always use in my filling and had to improvise with a new recipe. I also found out I didn’t have the ingredients for edible glue lol...I just made it work with what I had and think they turned out pretty darn cute 🤷🏼‍♀️ #macaron #macarons #macaronlover #macaronlady #macaronstagram #macaronmonday #rainbow #clouds #rainyday #sweetforcertain #candy #airheadsextreme #marshmallow #indulgewithmimi
    Replenishing my freezer cookie stash, ready for th Replenishing my freezer cookie stash, ready for the moment a craving hits! @thesweetandsimplekitchen recipe wins again! I am obsessed with sprinkles-they make me so happy, and these actually add flavor to the cookies! It’s super easy to freeze cookies: place them all unbaked on a cookie sheet, like in the photo, and put in the freezer for about 20 minutes, until they’re slightly froze. Place them all in a freezer bag, and back in the freezer they go! Easy peasy, they won’t be stuck together, and we’ve now got cookies available anytime. This is actually a very good thing because when a craving hits I only make a couple vs. an entire batch...I have eaten entire batches of cookies before 🤷🏼‍♀️ #cookies #sweet #sweetforcertain #thesweetandsimplekitchen #sprinkles #sprinklesmakeeverythingbetter
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