Recipe for flan pastry, used for sweet or savoury tarts. Yet another basic shortcrust pastry, Flan Pastry or Pâte à Foncer (part-ah-fawn-say), is an extremely versatile pastry, can be made a day in advance easily, and filled with all manner…
One of my favourite tea time treats, this Custard Tart is made with homemade flan pastry and homemade custard, thicker than usual as it has to be cut up as opposed to poured over. I love to sprinkle some icing…
I’m not a huge fan of really dark and sweet sauces, here, as when making chocolate ganache, I’m using milk chocolate instead and the double cream further mellows out any lingering “dark taste”. Perfect for Profiteroles and Ice Cream. Shall…
A step by step demonstration on how to make a Mermaid Cake for girls. Links for Madeira cake and Buttercream Icing too. Mermaid Cake I can always rely on my girls to pick a fun cake for their birthdays, and…
Choux Pastry or Pâte à Choux (pronounced pata shoo) is, to me, one of the easiest pastries to make – ever! So many people are under the mistaken impression that it’s a difficult and lengthy process but how does 10…
Profiteroles are made with choux pastry and are often filled with whipped cream, pastry cream and sometimes ice cream (my favourite) and drizzled with chocolate sauce and/or icing sugar. It’s a very popular party dessert here in the UK, particularly…