French pastry includes inimitable desserts. Among them is the famous rum baba, made with brioche dough soaked in rum and baked in the oven in cork-shaped moulds until golden brown. These cakes take centre stage on a dessert table.
Рубрика: Desserts
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Kouign-Amann
This pastry is made using bread dough, butter and sugar. It lends itself beautifully to various compositions. As it bakes, the layers of butter create flakiness and the sugar caramelizes, resulting in a texture that’s crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, somewhere between a croissant and a brioche.
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Spiced Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
These cookies are inspired by the flavours of Mexican hot chocolate, with their vanilla dough slathered with a chocolate and hazelnut spread sprinkled with a spiced cocoa crumble. The beauty of it? Make cookie dough rolls and keep them in the freezer. It’s perfect for sweet munchies you can improvise on the spot.
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Pavlovas with Passion Fruit Crémeux, Pineapple, Coconut and Basil
In this pavlova recipe, the little meringue nest is garnished with fruit full of sunshine, coconut and basil whipped cream, for a surprising and delicious blend of flavours.
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Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Bring back childhood memories with this festive dessert that gives a tip of the hat to pound cake—and puts lemon under the spotlight. First in the dough, then in the icing made with icing sugar. With its delicate taste and moist texture, thanks to the use of olive oil, this cake is irresistible. Here’s a snack option that’s just sweet enough, perfect to serve with tea or coffee, in good company.
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Peanut Butter Mousse with Caramel and Chocolate Crunch
Some people swear by creamy peanut butter and others, only by the crunchy kind. In this case, it’s mostly frothy. Make this mousse by preparing a jellified peanut butter crème anglaise, then incorporate whipped cream to get a dense and rich texture. Pour caramel and cereal coated with chocolate, peanut butter and honey over the surface. It’s the marriage of textures that makes this dessert a winner.
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Light Yogurt Mousse with Fruit Salad
To get back to your good habits following the indulgences of the holidays, opt for a low-fat dessert that will still satisfy your sweet tooth. Make a mousse with yogurt, gelatin and stiff-whipped egg whites. Top this airy mousse with a green, energizing fruit salad.
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Banana Cake with Cream Cheese and Brown Butter Icing
There’s no classic dessert quite like banana cake. But when you mix brown butter into the dough and icing, you’ll experience a completely different world of taste. To make brown butter, cook butter in a pan. The flavour of the heated butter intensifies and its colour changes to a hazelnut brown. The cake becomes super moist and the cream cheese icing remains slightly salty.
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Mint-Chocolate Profiteroles
Mint and chocolate, a match made in heaven, come together in this classic dessert: profiteroles. In this case, the chocolate choux pastry is garnished with delightful mint whipped cream. A warm dark chocolate sauce coats the dessert. Easy to make just one bite of these tasty little pastries!
