Few things make people as nervous in the kitchen as making pastry dough. This is understandable because it’s easy to get wrong, and you can end up with something tough or soggy, instead of a light and ...

Golden, fragrant and fragrant with the aroma of freshly baked butter, brioche seems like a luxury reserved for French ...

An alternative to pressing pastry dough into a tart tin or pie plate is to cut the rolled out dough into shapes to bake and use as lids and platforms to make freeform tarts. The simplest shapes are ...

Choux pastry is a pillar of the pastry world. Made out of a few pantry staples, this humble dough is the foundation of many sensational desserts. While you’ve surely seen it adorning bakery pastry ...

World-famous pastry chef Dominique Ansel (creator of the Cronut) joins Bon Appétit to demonstrate how to make the perfect ...

Sometimes you feel like you can’t win with people. Take kitchen shortcuts, for example. You suggest a shortcut or store-bought item to make a dish easier or faster, and you get dinged by purists who ...

Betty Noga of Terrebonne, Ore., wrote that she would greatly appreciate “a recipe for kooka. I’m not sure I spelled it correctly, but I enjoyed it as a child in a German friend’s home.” Her response ...

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 ...

It’s no surprise that Beto’s Comida Latina owner Albert Mijangos can fill, fold and crimp empanadas with the best of them. After all, his San Antonio restaurant sells hundreds of the savory and sweet ...