Though freshly fried churros are hard to beat, I find I enjoy Air-Fryer Churros just as much! Serve with Tablea Tsokolate and Hot Thai Milk Tea on the side.
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Three times the chocolate fun with these Triple Chocolate Eclairs
These chocolate eclairs have our favorite ingredient in all three of its components. Enjoy during a tea party with fellow chocolate-lovers!
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My continuing struggles with pate a choux that led to delicious Chocolate Eclairs
If I ever wrote a baking memoir, there would be a whole 50-page chapter devoted to my roller coaster-like ride in learning the pate a choux. I had thought that the hard-fought success after my first gazillion trials would help me nail the eclair rather easily. Turns out there is more to it than knowing technique and what the batter should look like at certain points. I mean, these are the things I have already truly learned after all my previous failures. No, this time I really have to chalk up the “rough” appearance of my eclairs to my lack of proper equipment. I now realise I do not have the piping tip appropriate enough to squeeze out the…
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Dear Daddy Eclairs with divine Mocha Pastry Cream
I made these éclairs, and much like everything else that I make, with the intention of sharing it with my family so that they may enjoy it. Even though I make things for them all the time, there was a special occasion to be celebrated for one of the most important people in my life. In the end I decided it called for a slightly more special treat. Unfortunately, these didn’t turn out the way that I would have wanted. Bluntly put, I burnt my éclairs to a tragic crisp. But thank goodness the mocha pastry cream was there to salvage it. (Boy, that pastry cream is the bomb!) Because…
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The very long and winding road to cream puffs
Oh boy. So I’ve been wanting to learn how to make pate a choux for a while, not because they are my favourites (although of course they are yummy too!) but I find the process of making them interesting. Everyone keeps saying making choux pastry is easy, and now that I have figured out how to make them successfully, this is the conclusion I’ve arrived at as well. Based on the photo below, you can see that it took me so many tries before I attained success! (I’m sharing the recipe at the end of this post.) As troublesome as it all seems, I’m glad all those failed attempts did…
