"Pastry" Blogs & Blog Posts

 It was several months back now that someone e-mailed me and suggested I try to make London Cheesecakes.  I am always open to suggestions.  I did some research and discovered that London Cheesecakes are not cheesecakes at all, but beau...

 One very well known and beloved bake shop in the U.K. is Greggs.  They serve hot drinks, toast, sandwiches and are very well known and loved for their puff pastry bakes. Cheese and onion, sausage rolls, steak bakes, etc.  People...

There’s a time and a place for chewy, crusty homemade bread. Bread that requires 12 minutes of constant kneading to make. Bread that’s full of glorious, stretchy gluten. That place is not the Thanksgiving dinner table. Crusty bread makes a killer...

Pigs in a blanket seem like easy comfort food because the recipe only requires two ingredients, but no one tells you that you’ll be cutting and rolling sticky strips of dough around wet, slippery dogs for 45 minutes. Forget all that nonsense: There...

Blind baking pie crusts should be simple: You line crimped, chilled pastry with parchment or foil, fill with dried beans to weigh it down, and bake until crisp. I’ve been making pies for years, but until I switched my weights from dry chickpeas to...

A trifle is the hot-mess-best-friend of desserts. It would be all over the place if it wasn’t for the giant bowl holding it together, but the good qualities outweigh the chaos. You can dress it up with with refined cake cubes, jam, and custard, but...