Our sweetest French pastries - 6 recipes
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Lemon Meringue Tartlets
By flutelah
The delicate shortbread crust plays well with the rich, zesty lemon cream and the sweet, airy meringue to top
- Shortbread pastry
- 150 g of flour
- a pinch of baking powder
- 75 g of sugar
- 1 orange
- 75 g of softened butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon of water
- Lemon cream
- 4 medium-sized lemons
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 soup spoon of Maïzena (corn starch)
- Italian meringue
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 105 g of egg whites
- 38 g of sugar
This Croque Cake is a Crowd-Friendly Version of the French Classic
By Pascale Weeks
Croque-monsieurs are no longer à la mode. Make way for the croque-cake! It's BIG enough to feed a crowd. Check out the recipe here!
Strawberries and White Chocolate Cream Pastry
By Dominique - Blog "Cahier gourmand"
Preheat oven to 400°F Start by cooking the flaky crust
- - Home made or store bought puff pastry
- - 14 oz strawberries
- cream:
- - generous 2 cups whole milk
- - 1 vanilla pod
- - 1/2 c (heaping) flour
- - 2 egg yolks + 1 whole egg
- - 1/4 c + 4 tbsp sugar
- - 2/3 cup cream
- - 1/2 cup white chocolate
- coulis:
- - 3-4 oz strawberries
- - 3 tbsp. tablespoons water
- - 2 tablespoons sugar
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Red Fruit Tartlets
By flutelah
An authentic french pastry; brings together multiple patisserie fundaments in a single simple dessert
- Pastry dough:
- 120 g of softened butter
- 80 g of powdered sugar
- 1 vanilla pod
- 25 g of almond powder
- 1 egg (entire)
- 200 g of flour
- a pinch of salt
- Pastry cream (~500 g):
- 1 vanilla pod
- 35 cL of whole milk
- 1 egg
- 65 g of sugar
- 40 g of maïzena
- 35 g of butter
- Raspberry coulis:
- 100 g of raspberries
- (fresh or frozen)
- juice of half a lemon
- 60 g of sugar
- a big pinch of pectin
- Dressing:
- 400g of in-season red fruits
- (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries)
- a little bit of powdered sugar
- verbana leafs
Noix Japonaises
By flutelah
This extravagant French pastry combines many classic elements to create the "Japanese Walnut:" A praline butter cre...
- Cracker crust
- 50 g of salted butter
- 60 g of brown sugar
- 60 g of T45 flour
- Choux pastry
- 16 cL of water
- 3 grams of sugar
- 70 g of butter in small pieces
- 3 g of fleur de sel
- 15 g of powdered milk
- 90 g of T55 flour
- 3 eggs (160 g)
- Patisserie cream
- 16 cL of whole milk
- ½ vanilla pod
- 38 g of egg yolks (~2 eggs)
- 38 g of sugar
- 38 g of Maizena
- 16 g of butter
- Italian meringue
- 16 g of water
- 40 g of sugar
- 28 g of egg whites
- 10 g of sugar
- Praline butter cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 96 of sugar
- 40 g of water
- 144 grams of softened butter
- 150 g of praline
- Dressing and finish
- 500 g of dark chocolate
- 100 g of sugar
- 2 small spoons of glucose
- some walnut halves
- a little bit of praline
Croquembouche
By Gitanjali Roche
An amazing French pastry
- 15 scoops of vanilla ice cream
- 20 cl of heavy cream
- 200g of grated dark chocolate
- For the cream puff batter (pate a choux)
- 100g of butter cut into small cubes
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 150g of flour
- 3 eggs
Creme Brulee French Toast
By shayelynn87
In a small heavy saucepan melt brown sugar and water over moderate-low heat, stirring, until smooth and melted, abo...
- 1 cup unpacked brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- cooking spray
- 10 oz Challah bread, sliced 1 inch thick
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup egg substitute
- 1 to 1/2 cups 1% milk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp Meyers rum (optional)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp powdered sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
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