This velvety smooth pastry cream is very easy to make. The pastry cream comes together in only 15 minutes, and the hardest part is letting it chill. Super creamy, there's a pop of vanilla flavor. Use ...

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 ...

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, ...

During an episode of Barefoot Contessa, Garten shared her philosophy for entertaining friends which makes it easier for her as the host. “One of my mottos is: my friends don’t have more fun if I spent ...

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 ...

My basement looks like a Williams-Sonoma store — if Williams-Sonoma had a thrift shop division. I have amassed an extensive collection of cooking implements during my visits to thrift and antique ...