ROSEMARY HAZELNUT TUILES

Rosemary and hazelnut tuiles wait patiently for café to be served

These cookies join the Club of Leftover Eggwhites… who would have guessed by their charm!?  The recipe was easy and came out perfectly. The finish is elegant and tasty.  Merci to Clotilde at Chocolate and Zucchini for these tuiles and such an easy-to-follow recipe.  They [...]

DECEMBER SWEETS: A PHOTO TOUR

Fondant-glazed Sugar Cookies
December is a busy month for a pastry chef… working odd hours, long hours, short hours (last night I worked from 10pm to 2am… and I pick up again tonight at 2am). I cook so much this month that I’ve started to feel like a real pâtissier and not just a silly imposter [...]

FLORENTINES

Chocolate dipped florentines
A little magic is in the air today. Outside it’s snowing. Inside I’m cleaning house and preparing mentally for a holiday spent in a French pastry shop. After today, my next day off is January 1st. Yikes! I’m afraid I won’t want to see another bûche de noël for as long as [...]

MACARONS AU PAIN D’ÉPICE: HONEY & SPICE BREAD MACARONS

Spice Bread macarons with pain d’épice cream in the center
Autumn is here and fresh fruit is becoming rare apart from apples and pears, which are making their happy little way to the table in many shapes and flavors…but we’ll go into that another day. Anita of Dessert First wisely chose spices as Sugar High Friday’s [...]