Cinnamon and Cream

Brown Butter Maple Tart with a Toasted Pecan Crust

This silky maple custard tart is built on a buttery toasted pecan shortbread shell and filled with a rich brown butter custard that tastes like autumn in every bite. It comes together with simple techniques and rewards you with a show-stopping dessert that looks far more difficult than it is.

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Almond Frangipane Tart with Vanilla-Poached Pears

A buttery shortcrust shell filled with fragrant almond cream and crowned with silky, wine-poached pears — this is the kind of tart that looks like it came from a Parisian patisserie but is absolutely achievable at home. Make it once and it will become your most-requested dinner party dessert.

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Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart with Flaky Sea Salt

A silky, bittersweet chocolate ganache nestled in a crisp cocoa shortcrust shell, finished with a shower of flaky sea salt that makes every bite absolutely electric. This is the tart you bring out when you want to genuinely impress someone, and the best part is that it comes together with surprisingly little effort.

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Banana Cream Pie with Silky Vanilla Pastry Cream

Layers of fresh banana and cloud-soft vanilla pastry cream nestle inside a buttery, flaky crust, all crowned with billows of lightly sweetened whipped cream. This is the banana cream pie you will make for every celebration and every ordinary Tuesday that deserves a little something special.

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Dark Chocolate Silk Cream Pie with Brown Sugar Whipped Cream

A satiny, deeply chocolatey filling made with real dark chocolate and egg yolks sets into a luscious, spoonable slice inside a buttery cocoa cookie crust. This is the pie you make when you want to genuinely impress someone, and it comes together without turning on the oven for the filling.

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Classic Crème Diplomate with Vanilla Bean and Whipped Cream

Crème diplomate is the silkiest, most elegant filling in the pastry kitchen, a cloud-light marriage of rich vanilla pastry cream and freshly whipped cream that holds its shape beautifully for tarts, mille-feuille, and layered cakes. Once you taste the difference a real vanilla bean makes here, you will never go back to extract alone.

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