Tag: pastry

Eclairs & choux

Why while the recipe is always a lot simpler than I remember, I prepare eclair only once every 2 or 3 years???… These and millefeuilles are probably my favorite French traditional patisseries, with strawberry tart. (I don’t count simple fruit tarts, cobblers, and crumbles… they do not really count!!! 😉 What the three have in common is a delicious custard, and I love custard… with vanilla, cocoa, macha…

While my puff pastry is never really good, I have never been presumptuous enough to make an attempt at baking millefeuilles, but eclairs, choux are perfectly at the level of my abilities. And each time I am decided to make some, each time I prepare myself for a tedious task, and each time I am surprised by how quick and easy it was!!! And wonder why really I don’t make some more often!!!

I always use the same recipe that I wrote sometime ago here, beware that the custard ingredients quantities fill about 2/3 of the choux, so if you want to fill all of them, you need to multiply by 1.3 the custard quantities or use 2/3 of the pate a choux ingredients. I use these quantities because sometime a choux doesn’t bake with the perfect shape, and because A. and I like to test the choux out of the oven! And I realized it is always almost at the same time of year I make it and only when we have friends visiting!!! The recipe makes quite a lot of them actually so that may explain the second point… as it is better not to keep them more than 24h!!! They are so much better fresh!

Have a good day!

Strawberry tart, coconut custard

There is almost nothing as simple as making a strawberry tart, yet as delicious and pretty. It may look like a lot of work but it is not. I have my strawberry tart ready in 20min all included: from making the pie crust to washing the strawberries, including some nice new versions. In addition I’m trying some new features to share more ecperience, with a new youtube channel, where you will be able to see how to prepare some classic recipes. It is all new so I’m still trying to find the proper angle and tools, and sometimes I forgot to turn on the camera, but of you like it, I’ll put more. 

Strawberry tart with coconut custard

For one large tart for 6 people 

For the pie crust: same recipe as the plain petits sables lasr week

For the filling

– a little basket of strawberries  

– a pack of coconut milk or coconut cream (200ml) 

– 2tbs of sugar

– 2 egg yolks  

– 2tbs of flour

 In a pan heat the coconut cream/milk. In a bowl mix the sugar and the egg yolks. Add the heated milk. Stir well, then add the flour. Stir well again. Move back in the pan and cook at low heat until it gets thick.

Set in the pie crust a 5mm layer and thn add the strawberries on top. Ready to be eaten!!! 

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