Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 lb Puff pastry – and tossed with -(fresh or thawed frozen) Lemon juice 1 c Sugar 1/2 ts Cinnamon 1/4 c Water 1/4 c Unsalted butter; melted 5 lb Golden Delicious apples Sugar – peeled, cored, quartered FOR PASTRY: Preheat oven to 300 F. Roll pastry 1/8 inch thick. Cut into […]

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY- 250 g Plain Flour 125 g Butter 25 g Caster Sugar 25 g Ground Almonds 3 tbsp Cold Water A few drops of almond essence Filling: 3 Eggs 1 tbsp Cornflour 175 g Caster Sugar 250 ml Single Cream 1 tbsp Kirsch Selection of Raspberries, Cherries and Blueberries (sufficient to cover […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 (9-in) pre-cooked tart shell 3/4 c Apricot jam 2 lb Apples 1/4 c Calvados -preferably Golden Delicious -=OR=- Dark Rum or Cognac 1/2 Lemon, juiced 2 tb Butter 2 tb Sugar (or more if needed) PEEL, QUARTER and core the apples. Slice 3 apples into thin slices, toss with lemon juice […]

Ingredients & Directions FOR DOUGH 1 1/3 c All purpose flour 1/3 c Sugar 1/4 ts Salt 1/2 c Chilled unsalted butter; cut -into pieces (1 ; stick) 5 tb Cold water -FOR FILLING- 1 1/2 c Packed golden brown sugar 1/4 c Unsalted butter; (1/2 stick) 3 tb Whipping cream 1 tb Grated peeled […]

Ingredients & Directions Filling 1/4 c Peanut oil 2 lb Vidalia sweet onions Pie pastry; see below 2 Egg yolks Pie pastry 6 tb Heavy cream 2 c All-purpose flour 1/2 c Water 1/2 c Unsalted butter 1/4 lb Bacon; cut in strips 2 Egg yolks 1 ts Flour 1 ts Salt 1 ts Salt […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Sugar 1 1/2 ts Cornstarch 1 lg Whol egg 1 lg Egg yolk 3/4 c Milk 3 oz Unsweetened chocolate; -chopped fine 1 c Well-chilled heavy cream 6 Glaceed cherries; halved 1/3 c Blanched almonds; chopped -coarse, ; toasted lightly, ; andcooled Half of a 3-ounce -fine-quality; shaved with ; […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/3 BUTTER PASTRY dough 2 ts Dried oregano, crushed 1 Egg white, lightly beaten 1/8 ts Ground black pepper 2 tb Butter 1/2 lb Smoked mozzarella cheese, 10 oz Fresh mushrooms (1 package), -thinly sliced -sliced 2 tb Grates asiago or Parmesan 7 oz Shitake mushrooms (1 -cheese -package), stems discarded 1/3 […]

Ingredients & Directions See part 1 pieces of dough. Refrigerate the scraps from each piece as you work, then knead them together and roll out another tart shell. If using tart pans, place them on a baking sheet. Place the tart shells in the freezer for 30 minutes. Position a rack in the center of […]

Ingredients & Directions -PHYLLO TART SHELLS- 1 lg Egg white 1/4 ts Salt 2 tb Olive oil 8 Phyllo dough sheets (14×18″ SMOKED TROUT FILLING 2 pk Cream cheese, low-fat (8 oz) 1/3 c Scallions; chopped (2 scall 1/2 lb Trout fillets; smoked, skin 4 ts Horseradish; well drained –and pin bones removed 1 c […]

Ingredients & Directions **STRAWBERRY-WHITE CHOCLATE -FILLING** 4 oz White chocolate; finely -chopped 1 1/4 c Heavy cream 30 Strawberries 24 Fully baked 2 1/2-inch tart -shells; made with chocolate ; tart dough 1 oz Bittersweet chocolate; -melted for design CHOCOLATE TART DOUGH 8 tb Unsalted butter; cut into 8 -pieces 1 c Unbleached all-purpose -flour; […]