For some chefs, the magic is in the crossover. Yudi Ela / Courtesy of Otter Scallops Divorciado at the NYC restaurant Otter. There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westend61 / Getty Images You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a ...

Here's the thing about pastry. It doesn't forgive like other forms of baking. You can get away with a slightly overbaked cookie or even an underbaked cake center, yet pastries, those buttery layers of ...

Chef Pamela Roberts will show you fun things to do with the flaky, layered pastry. Don't let puff pastry intimidate you. Chef Pamela Roberts will show you fun things to do with the flaky, layered ...

Only a few simple ingredients are required to make choux pastry at home. Choux pastry can be used for éclairs as well as sweet and savory cream puffs like gougères. It's important to exercise patience ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...