Alberto's Kitchen

Pâte à choux (Choux Pastry) Ingredients 240 g Water 120 g Butter in  chunks 150 g Flour 4 eggs Pinch of Salt Description Pâte à choux is a light pastry dough used to make éclairs and beignets. The preparation is very easy, but the cooking requires some skills especially if we have to fry it. [...]

Not everybody knows that instead of just one kind of short crust there are at least 4 different types that French classify as: pâte Sucrée, Sablée, Brisée and Breton. Each one has its own preparing method though it tends to become similar when an electric mixer is used.   This is the right blade (called the Leaf) [...]