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Mille Feuille

February 26, 2021 in Puff Pastry

Mille Feuille is a dessert made of 3 layers of puff pastry, filled with a rich Crème Patissiere and decorated with a glaze that is feathered. My version of this dessert uses a Crème Diplomat filling which is a little bit lighter. Also in the recipe, I made a Cheats Puff Pastry which saves a lot of time! I decided to stick to the classic design of this dessert but I made a little change which I think makes the Mille Feuille taste a lot better.

GBBO Technical Challenge S5W3 - Ciabatta

January 29, 2021 in GBBO Technicals

The Technical Challenge for bread week in Series 5 was Ciabatta! This is a super tricky bread to make as it has a high hydration percentage which makes it difficult to knead and shape. Be sure to add all the water in the recipe as this is what makes these big air bubbles in the Ciabatta!

Croissants

November 30, 2020 in Enriched Bread

These Croissants are something that I have been practising over the past few months. It has taken me several attempts to try and get the perfect Croissants and now I think I have finally baked a Croissants that you would find in a French Bakery! If you do want to make your own Croissants keep in mind it is a very lengthily process which can take 2-3 days. I get better results when I do it over 3 days but you can easily do it over 2 days.

Throughout my many attempts some tips that are really important are: To make sure your dough is chilled, this will prevent your butter from melting and oozing out of the dough and my other tip is to prove your Croissants for at least 3 hours, this will create that open amazing looking honeycomb structure in your Croissants.