The Art of French Pastry

your oven if it doesn’t have a pilot light. Fill a medium saucepan halfway with boiling water and place ...

check if the dough has risen enough, poke the surface with your finger and see how it bounces back; if the d ...

left by your finger, then the brioche has risen enough. 7 If your dough has risen in the oven, remove ...

and place on a wire rack so that it can cool completely. This will take 1 full hour. 8 Place ...

shapes all around the edge of the bottom half of the brioche. Once the entire border is piped, pipe a se ...

part into 12 equal slices and place them on the piped cream, reassembling the top in its original shape. ...

The sides of the brioche should be golden brown and the bee sting mixture should also be golden brown and crunchy ...

JACQUY’S TAKEAWAYS The reason why you cut the top of the cake before setting it back on the filling is that otherwise ...

when you cut the cake. If you do want to preserve the look of the whole uncut cake I recommend an electri ...

be shaped into individual pieces. If you choose to do this, use silicone muffin molds and place 10 grams of bee s ...

40 grams of brioche into a ball, press it flat, and then place it on top of the bee sting mixture; repeat ...

brown. Let cool completely in the mold for 45 minutes. Take them out of the mold and inject some crème diplom ...

cake. I vary the type of nuts and also the flavoring of the pastry cream. Who could resist a bee sting mad ...

CHINOIS / ALSATIAN CINNAMON ROLLS ...

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YIELD | 12 CINNAMON ROLLS 2-DAY RECIPE These are perfect to enjoy for breakfast. Where I grew up bakeries ar ...

Alsatian version of a cinnamon roll, made with brioche dough, a buttery almond cream, walnuts, and raisins. ...

crust. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Get out the following equipment and allow all of the ingredients to come to room temperature ...

metric weights Equipment for Brioche Equipment for Almond Cream Plastic wrap Two 9-inch metal rings or cake pans 2 s ...

1 chef’s knife 1 rolling pin 1 rubber spatula 1 pastry brush 1 wire rack with parchment paper underneath i ...