Choux pastry is most often used to make the base for eclairs and cream puffs. However, it can be used for so much more—like as the base for a beautiful karpatka cake. This layered dessert is ...

This impressive layer cake is a traditional Polish dessert called karpatka, featured in baker Laurel Kratochvila’s new cookbook, Dobre Dobre. Its gorgeous, airy choux-pastry crusts sandwich a silky, ...