Monday, October 27, 2008

LCB first week - Pastry







Ok, for last week, we made some shortbread biscuits in varying forms and shapes.  We also started on butter and pound cakes.  We made madeleines, I swear, one of the best I've tasted.  All those times, I tried so many recipes to get a perfect one!  Now, I got it!
We explored 2 techniques of mixture - Sablage (aka rubbing in method) and Cremage (creaming softened butter with sugar).







Gateau Basque is a butter cake baked with pastry cream (creme patissiere) inside.  Ok, let's move on!






















1 comment:

Bing said...

The pound cakes look good! Especially the marbled one.