The basic preparations that every aspiring pastry chef must know, the quick guides on the use of the instruments for the pastry.
Food Flavourings: Essences and Pastes Food flavourings are fundamental pastry ingredients whose main purpose is to add taste and aroma to a particular food or natural mixture. For example, adding a few drops of cinnamon flavouring to a classic apple cake […]
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Cake glaze or icing is used in pastry making to coat desserts, making them more appealing, adding a glossy layer or enhancing their flavour. Cake glazes fall into 2 main families: pourable glazes and paste glazes. Pourable glazes are […]
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When we talk about dried fruit in Italian, we often mean walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds. These are actually seeds and are more accurately described as nuts or oil-rich fruit. Dried or dehydrated fruit, by contrast, is fruit from which the water has been removed using equipment or the heat of the sun […]
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What is candied fruit? Candied fruit is made by preserving food, usually fruit, in sugar syrup; this method is called candying. During the candying process, the fruit’s water content is reduced while the sugar concentration gradually increases […]
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There are countless ways to decorate a cake. Anyone who loves baking or works as a pastry chef wants to make a birthday or ceremonial celebration unique with a cake worthy of the occasion. Let us look at useful cake-decorating tips and techniques. You can buy decorations suitable for every event […]
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Today we look at silicone baking moulds. This relatively recent product raises many questions: can the moulds go in the microwave, can they be washed in the dishwasher, and should they be greased before use? Let us examine each of these points in detail […]
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Homemade Ice Cream: Every Way to Make It Without an Ice-Cream Maker There are many methods and recipes for making ice cream at home, even without an ice-cream maker. If you have never […]
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What Are Food Colourings? A food colouring is an organic or inorganic chemical compound used to change the colour of a food product and is therefore classified as a food additive. Food additives are substances added to foods to perform specific functions […]
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Kitchen Thermometers and Temperature Control in Recipes Are you cooking and baking more often and now need a kitchen thermometer? Have you searched online without understanding the differences between the available models? Do not worry: we […]
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In recent years, famous cake designers on television have shown a wider audience what can be achieved with sugar-paste cakes. Interest in cake design grew from the ’90s and especially throughout the 2000s, eventually becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Where can you buy sugar paste? You can […]
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