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1 A Little Love Goes a Long Way: Basic French Macarons
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2 Sweet Success: 10 Tips For Baking the Perfect Macaron
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3 Burning Question: Is Macaron Another Spelling of Macaroon?
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4 Make Someone's Morning With a Breakfast Tart
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5 Reader Recipe: Raspberry Turnovers
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6 Taste Test: Starbucks Macarons
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7 Do You Know Where These Christmas Foods Came From?
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8 My Night as a Spanish Pastry Chef
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9 Yummy Link: Behind the Scenes With a Hotel Pastry Chef
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10 Kolaches Are a Taste of Central Europe in Texas
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11 Are You Flaky When It Comes to French Pastry Facts?
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13 Name That Dish!
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14 Name That Dish!
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15 Yummy Link: Poppy Seed Kolaches
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16 King Cake — Happy Mardi Gras Y'all!
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17 Iced Oatmeal Cookies
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With their vibrant colors and lacy frills, dainty, crisp-crusted French macarons are the perfect Valentine's Day baking project. But these lovely little delicacies are temperamental enough to stump even the most accomplished chefs. Even if you follow a detailed recipe down to the letter, a batch of macarons can go very wrong very quickly. Thanks to humidity, an unreliable oven temperature gauge, Read more
Perhaps it's the rainbow of cheerful hues, the adorable two-bite size, or — most likely — the perfect crisp-chewy texture, but I just can't get enough of French macarons. Even when I'm stuffed to the gills, I can always make room for these tiny, delicate pastries. True, macarons can be temperamental (meringue is the capricious culprit), but they do respond wonderfully to patience, Read more
Lately, I've been seeing towers of cream puffs, or croquembouches, appearing all over the place, particularly in bridal magazines or on wedding blogs. The croquembouche is most certainly a delicious trend – we had one at our wedding and it was quite a hit! — but these magnificent sweet sculptures are more complicated than they may appear. To get an inside look at how these profiterole towers Read more
After all that holiday baking, Christmas tree decorating, and edible gifting, there's little to do during the holiday season besides besides hang out with loved ones. Get into the holiday spirit by trying to match the yuletide dish to its area of origin. How well do you know your holiday pastries? There's only one way to find out. Source: Flickr User Matthew Bietz Take the Quiz Read more
Liberté, egalité, fraternité: Good morning and Happy Bastille Day! Today marks the anniversary of France's national holiday, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which began the French Revolution. While Parisians celebrate with fireworks and parades, I'll be starting my day off on the right foot with a pain au chocolat and a café au lait (and ending it with a glass of Burgundy or Read more
Happy Fat Tuesday! Don't you wish this plate of beignets were real rather than just a picture? Dice215 shared the image in the Savory Sights group in the YumSugar Community. Freshly made vanilla bean beignets with warm chocolate fudge sauce on the side. For the recipe, check out her blog. If you have a delicious photo to share, upload it to the Savory Sights group in the community! Read more
If you wanted to create a dessert with in-season lady apples, you could try making the classic upside-down French pastry pictured below. What is it? Read more
Empanadas would make the ideal stranded-on-a-desert-island staple. They freeze well, are great for using up leftovers, and are as suited to the beginner as they are the expert. But best of all, they can be filled with just about anything, so they shouldn't be overlooked as both a convenient finger food and an unexpected dessert.Make the cleanup easier than ever for your next fiesta by serving up Read more
Although I tested your knowledge of various French pastries, I didn't include the seductive rectangular sweet shown below. Do you know what it goes by? Read more
This month, some dear friends from college will be visiting me in San Francisco. Whenever I have out-of-towners, my favorite way to welcome them is with a small savory or sweet treat — always homemade, for a little personal touch. This time, I'll be making scones. After all, what puts one at ease better than a warm pile of just-baked breakfast breads? Since one of them has a sweet tooth, and Read more
