19.2.2023
After Christmas, I just couldn´t make myself to bake. When I finally found the time and inspiration, I wanted to make something small and easy. Profiteroles with Chantilly Cream are just perfect bite-sized sweets – mini creams puffs filled with vanilla whipped cream. Profiteroles are a type of puff pastry dessert, small cream puffs filled with cream. They could be called…
8.11.2020
Have you heard about churros? If you’ve been to a food festival before, I bet you do, because they are quite popular there. Fried “beignets” made with the dough similar to choux pastry, rolled in cinnamon sugar and served with chocolate are just yummy. And that says someone who doesn’t even like fried things. These Churros with Homemade Chocolate Sauce…
17.5.2020
I think the most popular baked products during quarantine is homemade bread. But when it comes to desserts, many people were into “choux au craquelin”. What is it exactly? Choux pastry is in this case baked into a shape of small balls. Craquelin is crunchy “dough” on top of balls that cracks during baking, hence the name craquelin (from French…
7.4.2019
We traditionally make choux pastry donuts for Christmas and Easter – the regular ones with vanilla buttercream. Choux pastry donuts are made with choux pastry (of course) and are shaped into circles, therefore they resemble to donuts. They belong to the same category as éclairs, profiteroles, etc, but this shape is the most popular in Slovakia, we call them “venčeky”.…
30.7.2017
The end of July is in the sign of currants. Originally, I wanted to make something with blackberries, but my journey into a forest failed and I ended up with about 5 blackberries in my bucket. Hopefully, they will be ripe next week. Currants have to be enough until then, specifically red currants, because white and black currants were destroyed…
