Editor's Note: "Breaking Bao" is a cookbook that has 88 creative and delicious recipes focusing on Asian ingredients and techniques. It's an ideal book for the upcoming season to make delightful items ...

Not only is it important texture-wise, but chilling the dough first also gives you a leg up on flavor. “It gives the flour a ...

Ruby’s Kitchen brought the flavor to FOX 5’s Zip Trip! Pastry Chef Padua Player and Sous Chef Avery Thomas stopped by to ...

Nicolas Guercio, the executive pastry chef at Hôtel Lutetia. Julie Limont Guercio, who at one point also wanted to be a motorcycle cop, took a circuitous route to find his dream job. Despite his ...

It’s not often a chef gets to create something they can completely call their own. Eric Dale’s brunch dessert is the result of an ingenious combination of treats — and a desire to bring yeast-raised ...

Whether you are considering a career in baking, or just curious about the job titles you see at your favorite restaurant, you may be wondering about the difference between a pastry chef and a baker.

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and filling. But even the pros appreciate a good shortcut … ...

We all have a nostalgic connection to the sweet treats we ate as children — especially pastry chefs. Many of them pull inspiration from the textures and flavors of their favorite store-bought cookies, ...

If you’ve noticed the increasingly sparse dessert menus around D.C. lately or been disappointed that the sweet offerings are often basic and blah (panna cotta and bread pudding, we’re looking at you), ...

Croissants and macarons are just the beginning. Here are 10 traditional French pastries you don’t want to miss.