This sleek French-style apple tart gets a nutty depth from a layer of peanut butter frangipane, which grounds thin slices of sweet, crisp apples on a buttery puff pastry base. Dufour puff pastry is ...

Here's the thing about pastry. It doesn't forgive like other forms of baking. You can get away with a slightly overbaked cookie or even an underbaked cake center, yet pastries, those buttery layers of ...

Go ahead. Lick your fingers. You know you want to. You know you’re going to. When you make pastry, licking your fingers is part of the deal. It’s the payment you give yourself for making it. If you ...

Cookbook collectors will enjoy reading the stories bakers shared with Greg Patent in “A Baker’s Odyssey.” The more than 130 recipes in the book were collected by Patent from some of America’s best ...