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in 3.5 hours
- French Baguette
- Torpedo rolls
- Dinner rolls
- Biscuits
- Chocolate Chip cookies
What a great way to review a variety of techniques.
I love fruits, I love custardy cream, I love tart shells.
Fruit tarts is the complete package.
Oh, and we’ll give honorable mention to pear almond tarts.
It’s so satisfying to make this from scratch. Every ingredient was handled with love and assembled in a happy vibe. This is the best dessert yet in this class.
I claim to have improved my pie crust game, and now I can prove it.
Check out the mad flakey layers in this photo.
What a great feeling, to get better and better.
I’m happy with this crust.
Is this not the most ridiculously piled-high apple pie you’ve ever seen?
The pie busted at its seams and oozed out all sorts of goodness. The crust is super flakey beautiful.
Blueberries are pretty big and small.
Sorry didn’t get a chance to snatch pictures of pecan pie.
In all, today was Christmas at the church of pies — apples, blueberries, and pecan — the holy trinity of American pies.
My group’s brownies puffed up too much and wasn’t exactly a looker.
Good thing we were doing gussied up brownies — coated with chocolate ganache and decorated with white chocolate.
Fudgey dense and pretty.
My classmates packed me up a box despite my resistance (too much sugar!) and I’m glad they did.
This little tool is totally upping my game at pie crust making.
Cutting butter into flour is the labor-intensive step at the heart of making a good flaky pie crust.
I never particularly enjoyed the task manually but have definitely had overworked failures with machine attempts. My stand mixer serves me well and works fast but I don’t necessarily consider my made-from-scrape pie crusts a point of pride.
The first time Chef Ying-Wei busted out this dough blender tool I was in awe. The cutting mechanism more closely mimics a chopping blade. So unlike my flimsy wire contraption before, this tool produces beautiful crumbly, flour-coated pieces of butter without unintentional warming. Flakey fakes are in my future!
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