Pastry Maestra
Free Video Tutorials on Baking, Pastry making and Creating Desserts. Have a sweet life!
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o you like survival reality shows? You know – the ones where people eat bugs, sleep in the mud and drink their own…I won’t even go there, phew! Anyway, imagine how nice it would be if the caterpillars were like this one – yummy and scrummy, made from Palmiers and chocolate! Now – that would be a survival reality show for me!
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e just love bright, colorful food, just like we like shiny objects, so it’s no wonder that artificially colored juices, candy, and sauces look so appealing to us! Sadly, the real, natural food looks bland and unappetizing, but that is the fact of life, so, let’s learn something about the stuff we eat.
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hese awesome cookies are a must at Christmas time, but I’m sure that Santa wouldn’t mind having them every other day! So, why wait for Christmas – let’s have some right away!
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ere is the riddle: It weighs at least four pounds and you can make it look like anything you want – even a British pound! Your heart will be pounding when you stand on your bathroom scale because you will gain a pound by eating it and – yes – it is also unbelievably easy to make. What is it? It’s -a butter cake!
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ave you always wanted to be a Postmaster General? Or to give a stamp of approval? Or just to send a (not so) subtle message to your significant other? Well, stamp away!
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here is an interesting story about the origin of the baguette’s shape. The legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte himself requested his army boulangers to create a thin, elongated loaf, so his soldiers could carry the bread effortlessly – in their trousers!
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ou can’t afford a BMW luxury sedan? No problem! There is another gem from Bavaria, almost equally good – the Bavarian cream! And this one you can make yourself!
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runus cerasus, AKA sour cherry is thought to have originated as a natural hybrid between sweet cherry and dwarf cherry in the Persian Plateau or Eastern Europe, where the two species come into contact.
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oppy seeds are dried, kidney-shaped seeds of the annual plant Papaver somniferum (En. sleep-bringing poppy). The plant is used in production of opium, and just in case you ask yourselves – yes, you can fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds, for real!
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id you like playing with modeling clay when you were a kid? Well, playing with rolled fondant will be even better because you can eat your creations! And how fantastic is that?
