I worked as a pastry cook, but I grew up cooking and baking alongside my Southern mom. Her family's easy biscuit recipe calls for 3 ingredients, which you mostly measure with your heart. After ...

Sidestep pitfalls and ensure delicious, sweet, and flaw-free peanut brittle, with these tips from pastry chef and "Chopped ...

Making puff pastry the traditional way is slower than the rough puff method, but the reward is unmistakable. These are the ...

Peel and slice apricots and place in 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar. Let boil until the liquid is thick. Strain and cool. Prick the thawed pastry sheet all over with a fork, arrange the silvers of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. 1. Preheat oven at 400 F. 2. Mix cheese, ...

Pastry is the base of many great dishes but also one of the most difficult things to make from scratch. As important as a good recipe is, pastry cooks have shared another crucial step to ensure a ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

British meat pies incorporate a medieval pastry technique that was once designed strictly to hold ingredients together, and ...

New students in Nicole Plue's pastry classes at the San Francisco Cooking School - a program open to the public as well as to aspiring professionals - might not realize they've hit the dessert jackpot ...