Dessert-o-licious

The next two lessons were huge baking days! We made biscuits, scones, linzers and Bretons! I had never heard of a linzer before and just assumed we were making linzer cookies – sugar sandwich cookies, filled with jam, and dusted with powdered sugar.  But there is actually a linzer tart as well, which I have [...]

Lesson 36 marked the beginning of a new section of the program, we were moving into tarts and pies. To start the class, we learned about three different mixing methods to creating pie dough. The first method was the flaky method, used for Pate Brisee, or broken dough. This dough is created by rubbing butter [...]

In order to have a better understanding of pastry, I think it’s important that I taste lots of different pastries all around town! It’s always nice to have a good excuse to eat desserts and as a part of school sometimes my homework is go to the French pastry shops. This week I went to [...]

Something about the holiday time always makes me think of chocolate tarts. Maybe it’s the buttery, sweet crust. Maybe it’s the melt in your mouth chocolatey richness, but when I heard my family was going to come visit today, I just knew this has to be the dessert.

About a year ago I took a cooking class and at the end of the class we were given a recipe for a plum tart that I’ve been dying to try ever since. Last weekend, I finally got the chance!