Basic doughs

I tried many recipes and many ways of making sweet shortcrust pastry, and this is one of my favorites. Sweet shortcrust pastry is the dough used for most fruit tarts and this version is light, crisp and full of flavour thanks to the addition of the vanilla and the lemon zest. This is Philippe Conticini’s […]

Choux pastry is the basis for many French desserts. For some reason, I struggled to get this one right – I would always end up with a deflated ball of dough as they would collapse or just not rise correctly. That said, I think that I’ve now found the winning recipe and have had success […]