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…
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…
Pâte Sucrèe means Sweet Dough in French and is a light, crumbly, sweet shortcrust pastry that we usually associate with fruit tarts. Once it’s baked, it’s sturdy enough to stand on its own, without the tin it was baked in.…