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Paris-Brest

I absolutely love Paris-Brest, although you hardly ever see it for sale anywhere. I used to be so scared of making choux pastry, years ago I made some eclairs that were shocking. There wasn’t any space in the pastry to add the cream and when I tried to dip them in the icing they snapped in half and it was a complete mess. I have had varying success over the years with choux pastry and I have…

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Vanilla & Hazelnut Melting Moments

Vanilla & Hazelnut Melting Moments

I was having a freezer clear out and I found a batch of white chocolate ganache lurking in the back. I needed a recipe to use up the ganache and I’ll be honest I wanted something that wasn’t too taxing. These vanilla & hazelnut melting moments are just perfect. I know you’re probably thinking that hazelnut praline paste doesn’t sound very simple, but I made a batch of this because I was having…

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Hazelnut Praline Choux Buns

Hazelnut Praline Choux Buns

What can I write about choux pastry that I haven’t already written before? Well not a lot really, by now you probably all know that my absolute favourite, go to choux pastry recipe is Edd Kimber‘s recipe from . It is foolproof and has never failed me yet, as long as I follow the recipe to the letter.

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Chocolate Hazelnut Tart - Magimix Review

Chocolate Hazelnut Tart – Magimix Review

I have had three hand blenders since I started this blog, each time I’ve burnt out the motor making things like hazelnut praline paste, pistachio paste and blitzing up some dates that had one in the pack that wasn’t pitted. The hand blenders I had were fine for basic use, but I needed something more powerful, something serious that would help me create the ingredients that are so expensive to…

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Chocolate Hazelnut Brioche

As I’m sure you can imagine, I have a lot of cookbooks. The majority of them are patisserie or baking books though, so I’m a bit lacking on dinner party inspiration and evening meals, but the dessert course is usually already decided. A lot of my cookery books have some great unique recipes of their own, but you always come across a few recipes that feature in every book. Puff pastry, shortcrust…

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Chocolate & Praline Dacquoise

Chocolate & Praline Dacquoise

A dacquoise is a meringue with ground nuts folded through it before baking. It is similar to a macaron shell, but not beaten as vigorously, so that it doesn’t form a smooth shell, but more of a rustic meringue. The finished result is very cakelike, but also very light because of the lack of fat in the finished cake. Dacquoise is a curious term as it can be used to describe the cake layer itself,…

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