My Pastry Journal
Recipes, Tricks & Tips in The Persuit of All Things Sweet.
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"Colourful Egg" - Easter Plated dessert
Indulge in a modern Easter plated dessert with our 'Colourful Egg' creation. Crafted with a blood orange mousse, strawberry insert, matcha ganache, matcha sponge, and blood orange gel, this delightful dish is a feast for the eyes and taste buds. Prepare all components in advance and focus on presentation.
Popcorn Foam
Elevate your culinary creations with my popcorn foam recipe, a delightful plated dessert component that adds a light and airy touch to your desserts.
Halloween Simple Plated Dessert
My Halloween plated dessert is the perfect choice for those who crave a blend of simple preparation and spooky satisfaction. With minimal effort, you can create a dish that's certain to terrify and tantalize in equal measure.
Mastering Panna Cotta for Plated Desserts
Elevate your dessert menu by transforming traditional panna cotta into a modern and visually stunning masterpiece with our creative recipes and plating suggestions
“Carbon Black” - Plated Dessert
I decided to challenge myself by creating a plated dessert using only a sample of Dezaan's Carbon Black
Gluten-Free Chestnut and Hazelnut Sponge
This Gluten-free Chestnut and Hazelnut sponge is perfect for those who are looking for a light and airy sponge cake that is also gluten-free. The chestnut flour and hazelnuts give the cake a wonderful flavor and texture, and the sponge itself is incredibly moist and fluffy.
Salted Caramel and Milk Chocolate Ganache
The Salted Caramel and milk chocolate ganache is unbelievably silky, tasty, shiny, and easier to make
Vegan Strawberry Meringue
These Vegan Strawberry Meringues are so simple to make and the perfect component for your vegan plated dessert.
Berry Frozen Yogurt
Frozen yogurt is one of my favourite ice cream. It's light, refreshing, and has a lovely tanginess that isn't too overwhelming.
Perfect Mirror Glaze
Mirror glaze is an eye catching technique to decorate mousse cakes, entremets, and pastries. Deeply rooted in French tradition of haute pastry, this simple and easy technique will give your pastries a professional polish.
Cereal Milk Bavarois & Cookie Dough Ganache Cake
Let me show you how to create a cereal milk bavarois, cookie dough ganache, and cocoa biscuit covered with a super shiny mirror glaze!
“Naughty Coal” - plated dessert
This “Naughty coal” is made from a Choux pastry with a black sesame craquelin, filled with a gingerbread mousse and a rhum caramelised banana centre!
Choux pastry & Cocoa Craquelin
Flour, eggs, butter and water are all you need to make it.
A pastry with a light and crisp outer shell, and a delicious, soft, creamy, custard-like inside.
Mascarpone and Coffee Mille-Feuille
Mille-feuille is French and means something like “thousand leaves”, referring to the many layers of the puff pastry. There are no really a thousand layers, but we are getting close !
How to make Puff Pastry
Puff pastry is a delicate, light, and flaky pastry that can be used in countless different ways. You might also know it by its French name: pâte feuilletée
Cherry Frangipane Tart
Pâte sablée is a classic French shortcrust pastry dough that once baked, becomes the base for pretty much any tart you can imagine.
Strudel Tart
How easy is it to make sweet shortcrust pastry?
Shortcrust pastry is not hard to make, but you have to be very careful not to overwork the pastry dough too much!
Carrot Cake Plated Dessert
This dessert is a reinterpretation of the classic carrot cake. If you love carrot cake, you should give this version a go!
Raspberry Inspiration Crémeux
Today’s recipe is a Raspberry inspiration cremeux. Aromatic, fresh, rich and super creamy with just the right hint of sharp raspberry to excite the palate!