There's something satisfying about how impressed people get when you serve puff pastry desserts. They ooh and ahh over the flaky layers and ask how long it took, and you just smile, knowing the ...

During recent travels through Spain and France, I noticed a common, delicious detail among the many pastries I sampled: the subtle use of vanilla bean pastry cream. Also known as creme patissiere, it ...

Pate a choux is the stuff of magic in the kitchen. Pipe a soft, sticky dough onto a baking sheet and slide it into a hot oven. In mere minutes the dough puffs up -- practically exploding to double, ...

Anneliese Deising, Plymouth, Michigan go to recipe Raspberries, chocolate and pecans come together in this ...

A galette is always an easier move than pie (rustic, un-crimped edges are our friends), but this one goes a step further. Instead of making dough from scratch, all you have to do is unwrap a sheet of ...

But you can't ignore the cream puff's visual appeal of a pillowy white cloud within a golden brown shell. It promises fun. The fun either of making a sloppy mess with each bite that makes us feel like ...

There are two kinds of pastry lovers. The first orders a pastry and savors it in a moment of bliss, oblivious to the world. The second orders a few pastries and enjoys bites of each, acutely attuned ...

Ina Garten's decadent strawberry tarts recipe was inspired by her visits to Paris with husband Jeffrey. The Barefoot Contessa star explains the steps involved in making strawberry tarts, which ...