FIRST, a French friend brings a spectacular homemade dessert to dinner. It’s a Paris-Brest -- a large ring of choux paste sliced horizontally, filled with praline pastry cream and whipped cream and ...

Choux pastry (named after the French for cabbage because of the way it expands in the oven) is an unusual but versatile pastry. The ingredients are similar to those used in other, more common pastries ...

London’s pastry pros are larging it: supersized profiteroles are on a roll across the capital. Now that everyone’s given up that January nonsense, it’s time to get stuck into chocolate cream puffs as ...

1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved 1. Combine the egg yolks and one-third of the sugar in a bowl and whisk to a light ribbon consistency, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the ...