Pastry Maestra https://pastry-maestra.local Free Video Tutorials on Baking, Pastry making and Creating Desserts. Have a sweet life! Sun, 13 Feb 2022 13:18:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pastry-maestra.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/favicon.png Pastry Maestra https://pastry-maestra.local 32 32 How to Make Lady Fingers https://pastry-maestra.local/doughs-and-batters/make-lady-fingers/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:08:34 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=6911 W

hen I imagine how a lady's hand should look like, what comes to my mind is an image of a thin, silky smooth hand and elegant, elongated digits with manicured, buffed fingernails. And maybe, jut maybe, some discrete jewelry, if any. Now, who, in God's name, could find any resemblance between the image I have just described and soft sponge cake cookies that got exactly the same name, is beyond me!

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ould it be that some bored Swiss banker, sitting in the vault and making endless rolls of money, came to an idea of making a cake that looks like – a roll of money? Or the inventor of the Swiss roll was a tired clock maker that became dizzy of looking at the countless cogwheels swirling back and forth? Nobody knows.

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s it a cake, or a sponge cake? Is it meringue? Dacquoise [da-kwaz] can be a layered cake, a cake component, and it always contains meringue, however – it isn’t just meringue. It is one very special sweet treat!

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n this post you will learn how to make dark, chocolate flavored Madeleines, and since I love the combination of chocolate and orange, I am sharing this recipe with you.Now – if you are a person that always needs a ‘good’ reason, you can say that Madeleines are a must with your afternoon tea (or coffee for that matter). Me personally – I don’t need any excuse; I simply nibble them all day long.

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o Grandpa is having a birthday? And chewing is quite an adventure for him? Do not despair – there is a solution and it's called – a sponge cake!]]>