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Week V: Resto week
So this week was a bit different from the previous weeks, because we had to make the dessert for the school restaurant! We made millefeuille for the restaurant, made macarons for two days, a succès...
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Weekend Tasting: Europain + Mori Yoshida
I’m posting about weekend before before this week’s and the weekend before together as blogging didn’t happen.. Last weekend my parents and aunt visited me. We did some sightseeing and went to Jacques...
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Week #UNKNOWN
I’m not even sure what school week we are in. I tried to count, and apparently it’s week 10 already Ö … Somehow time flies very very hard and I lost track of everything that’s been happening. I even...
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Weekend Tasting: La Galerie at George V
Last weekend we had tea at Four Seasons George V hotel. We took the set Goûter à la Française (€60) at La Galerie, the salon du thé. This includes 1 glass of champagne, an assortment of sandwiches,...
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Weekend Tasting: Dessance
A couple weekends ago I went to Dessance with some friends. This is an all-dessert restaurant. Yes dessert only. The chef is Christophe Boucher (ex chef patissier of Ledoyen and Grand Vefour)....
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5 months in Paris
Five months in Paris have passed. I’ve had five months of pastry training in school and I have gained a kilo for each month. These five months were most definitely the fastest five months in my life....
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Strawberry Basil Dacquoise
Hey there! I’m back home and I have been baking a lot for my birthday, a bbq and some cake orders. Last Friday we had a BBQ with the neighbors and I made this summery dacquoise cake for dessert. A...
View ArticleBirthday sweets
My birthday was a while ago now (July 6th) but I haven’t posted the birthday cakes I made yet. If you are following me on Facebook or Instagram you might have seen them already, but for those who...
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Millefeuille
Millefeuille is a traditional French pastry. I believe the English speaking world knows it as a Napoleon. Traditionally, a millefeuille consists of three layers of puff pastry and in between those...
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Coconut buns
Hmmmm.. checked my drafts today and this one was never posted. This is a post from December 2012!! >.< Here it is now. Just over one and a half years later….. Ahum. I won’t be posting recipes...
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Tea time at Les Heures – Le Prince de Galles
After a break from testing pastries in Paris I’m back in the game! A week ago I checked out the bar Les Heures inside the palace hotel Prince de Galles. The bar is the “casual” dining place of the...
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Goûter d’anniversaire de La Pâtisserie des Rêves!
So last weekend La Pâtisserie des Rêves celebrated it’s 5th birthday with a huge picnic! Come dressed in pink and white, bring your blanket and get a box of free pastries! There was space for 5000...
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Weekend tasting: Sadaharu Aoki
One of the chefs I work with asked me if I tried Sadaharu Aoki. Sadly I had to answer with a no, not yet. He told me the tarte au caramel salé is really good. So off I went, to get that tart! So the...
View ArticleQ&A’s about Paris and pastry school
I have been getting emails with questions about my experience at Ferrandi, living in Paris and doing an internship here. Instead of emailing everyone similar answers back, I’ll try to sum it up in this...
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Weekend tasting: Aoki again
I was checking out the new Gourmet section in the Galeries Lafayette. And because I liked Aoki quite a lot the other weekend, I decided to try something again! I chose the half sphere Citron Praliné...
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La Pâtisserie des Rêves by Philippe Conticini
So somehow La pâtisserie des rêves never really made it to the blog, although it is one of my favorite pastry shops! The chef is Philippe Coniticini. He is a well known pastry chef. His shops are one...
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Weekend tastings: Pastry tour
I had a little “pastry tour” with a wonderful blogreader – Hey Samantha!! ^^ – and my new flatmate (+ sister later)! We started off with Mori Yoshida, proceeded to Rue du Bac where La Patisserie des...
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Weekend Tasting: Pierre Hermé
The other weekend I went to Pierre Hermé with my friend to try some pastries we hadn’t tried yet. We picked up two macarons and three pastries. The one you see above is the tarte café. Every component...
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Cinnamon Buns
This is the recipe I have been making for years, but somehow I never posted it here. Before I knew I could make these things myself (before I really got into baking at home), I used to eat them during...
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Weekend Tasting: Pralus
If you haven’t eaten this bread before, it looks odd. If you have, I bet you just want to eat it again now you think about it. This bread is called La Praluline by François Pralus. It’s a rich buttery...
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