Discover the pastry that reportedly sells 1,000 pieces daily, exploring its appeal, preparation, and the qualities that make ...

Learn an easy pastry-making method that helps simplify the process of creating delicious homemade baked goods. From handling ...

You can't get through a couple of episodes of "The Great British Baking Show" without seeing at least one baker work with puff pastry. It's tantalizing to watch the contestants flip, turn, and ...

Pâte à choux is a versatile dough that can be sweet or savory. Here's how to make it correctly. Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College ...

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 ...

Tiramisu is just as good with store-bought ladyfingers. You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and ...

Join Pastry Chef Janine Sciarappa as she teaches you to identify and prepare a variety of cookie doughs, master both stovetop and baked custards, and create Swiss and French meringues while ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Though I like to bake, I don’t consider myself a ...

Although there is a large overlap in the ingredients they work with, bakers and pastry chefs are not the same. Pastry chefs are responsible for overseeing the pastry team and for performing ...

MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 13: The pastry chef makes San Isidro doughnuts with a pastry bag in the Horno de San Onofre, on 13 May, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. The different types of donuts such as the silly, the ...