Pastry Essentials & Techniques

In this session, you will discover how to make real butter puff pastry and croissant dough.  You will learn how to make the famous dark cacao puff pastry of Joel Robuchon as well as different brioches and choux pastries for different uses.

While the doughs are going through their “tours “and proofing stages you will hear about their history, how their commercial counterparts are produced and the highly questionable food additives they contain. See how dough can be frozen and stored for further uses and how their off cuts are recycled so that nothing is lost. The session ends by enjoying these delicate creations in the forms of bread, pastries, croissants, puffs, cushions and vol au vent sweet and savory.