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A No-Fuss Guide to the Delicious Art of Pâtisserie

Unleash your inner pastry chef with Molly Wilkinson’s approachable recipes for all of your French favorites. Trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Molly takes the most essential techniques and makes them easy for home bakers, resulting in a collection of simple, key recipes that open up the world of pastry. With friendly, detailed directions and brilliant shortcuts, you can skip the pastry shop and enjoy delicious homemade creations.

Master base recipes like 30-minute puff pastry, decadent chocolate ganache and fail-safe citrus curds, and you’re on your way to making dozens of iconic French treats. You’ll feel like a pro when whipping up gorgeous trays of madeleines and decorating a stunning array of cream puffs and éclairs. Along with classics like The Frenchman’s Chocolate Mousse, Profiteroles and Classic Mille-Feuilles, learn to assemble exquisite showstoppers such as Croquembouche and Caramel Mousse Tartelettes with Poached Pears in Ginger. This go-to guide shows you all the tips and tricks you need to impress your guests and have fun with French pastry.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Page Street Publishing (June 8, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645672174
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645672173
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.45 x 8.95 inches
Reviewer: Monica
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Truly French Pastry Made Simple
Review: Visually beautiful and well organized, French Pastry Made Simple, by Molly Wilkinson, breaks down 10 foundational French pastry recipes (pâte sucrée, pâte feuilletée, pâte à choux, ganache, crème pâtissière, crème au citron, meringuée to name a few), then clearly explains and gives examples of how these 10 pillars of French pastry can be combined, reconfigured and reimagined to make over 60 others. It’s everything you need to know to successfully create showstoppers like the mighty croquembouche or a tower of deliciously delicate macarons … and that little jar of leftover lemon curd so good you can eat with a spoon. (Not to mention that both the French and Italian meringue methods are demystified step by step here.)Author Molly Wilkinson’s education at Le Cordon Bleu and countless hours of experience both baking and teaching French pastry are evident here. Her book gives bakers much more than the standard “mix to combine, then bake.” There are historical facts, explanations of French baking terms, and handy reference charts for piping tips, quantities, and whipped “peaks.” This book not only contains gorgeous pictures of featured finished works of art, but also helpful photos and explanations of what texture a batter or meringue should achieve before baking. “Bec d’oiseau” anyone? Bonus: recipes are written with both U.S. and metric measurements. Also included are specific baking notes, storage, and make-ahead instructions.This is a foundational book of French Pastry, written for everyone from the experienced baker to the aspiring pastry chef. It’s a recipe book, yes, but the beautiful pictures and elegant feel of the book quickly transport readers to the pastry shops, fresh fruit and flower markets of Versailles. Highly recommend!

Reviewer: Taren
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Cheerful and Approachable Guide to French Pastry
Review: If you’ve ever thought that a puff or macaron or tart was beautiful but something you’d never be able to recreate, this book is going to prove you wrong in the most delightful way! It’s chock full of gorgeous photography sure you please both fans of modern French culture and culinary. Bright and cheerful in both writing and imagery, it is a beautiful volume to add to your shelf and visit often.Molly Wilkinson has created the ultimate comprehensive guide to making French pastry fun and easy for even the most novice baker. Through teaching classes to bakers around the world, she’s compiled a list of the most common and most intriguing questions and used them to fuel the tips, tricks, anecdotes, and shortcuts provided throughout. Her guidance is thorough, but also friendly. You really get the feeling that she wants you to succeed and that her greatest joy is your incredible finished product. Every recipe is sure to help you create something much more ambitious and beautiful than you ever thought possible with tools and ingredients that are accessible to everyone. The care that has gone into each recipe is evident, with the author researching the differences in American flour vs. French flour in recreating each recipe as just one example. Molly not only holds your hand as she guides you through the process, but she’ll cheer the loudest when you unveil your finished product.Everyone’s got a great chocolate chip cookie recipe or a delicious no-fail pound cake, but Molly Wilkinson aims to broaden your baking horizons to croquembouche and tartlettes, and she does it with infectious enthusiasm. If you’ve ever wished for someone to break down the complexities of French pastry, you NEED this book, a fantastic first offering from a talented and down-to-earth chef.

Reviewer: rae reyes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: whats the most exciting thing that happened in our house this week?
Review: this morning Molly's new book arrived finally....it is beautifully written and beautiful to look at....and i promise you that the things you bake from it will be beautiful and delicious too. i am not a baker...i have struggled with it all my life...i am impatient and unskilled. but then the pandemic happened ....and how do you get through a catastrophe? its easy ... you stumble on Molly and get to spend some time in France when you are stuck in your own four walls andyou learn to make holiday cookies that are the envy of your hundreds of new instagram friends and then move on to gallettes ( who even knew there was such a thing ) and even macarons in every conceivable flavor. who needs Laduree any more. Molly is just a sweetheart....her laugh is contagious, she truly wants everyone to love baking as much as she does and her recipes work and are manageable even in an small New York City kitchen. do my macarons look like hers - well not yet - but they do taste great and maybe six more classes with her and all the extensive tips in the book and well maybe one day they will. so now it is summer and we are coming out of isolation and we all want our friends around, so now more than ever it is time to get Molly's book and start having dessert parties. it is strawberry season here and so my book is already stained on the fruit pies and berry treats pages. as you can tell by now i am a big fan. what can i say...you need to buy this book. five stars. go get yours now.

Reviewer: Karen_In_Calif
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: FABULOUS, BEAUTIFUL, PRACTICAL — YOU CAN MAKE THESE RECIPES!
Review: This is the book that has gotten me into French baking and cooking. I follow Molly on Instagram and watched her make the molten lava cakes and the chocolate mousse. I've made both in the last 14 days, and they are super easy and fun to make.But the best part? The RAVE comments of all who get to taste the creations. My chocolate mousse came out a little lumpy — distinguishing between light, medium and high meringue peaks is something I need to work on — but by morning the lumps had settled and the flavor wasn't affected one bit. When I served it that evening it was bananas how quiet the table got when the first tastes hit palates.Get this book and don't look back! Vive la Molly!

Reviewer: Jennifer Miller Gaubert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I'm one recipe in (Tarte au Citron) and a total fan. I would not say the recipes are simple per se: each involves time and attention, as all good homemade food does. But Molly breaks them down into a series of steps so precise, and so well explained, that you really can't go wrong. I especially love the tips about what can and should be done ahead, and what can be frozen. The pictures are not quite as spectacular as her Instagram account (highly recommended for inspiration and decorating ideas), but the layout is lovely.

Reviewer: Jessica
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Never before has it seemed possible to me to make French pastry at home. Molly’s charm and talent leap from the very beautiful, super well organised pages. The clear instructions and breakdown of the basics create comfort and confidence with the warm voice of a best friend.

Reviewer: Pauline Teo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Received item in good condition,yet to look thru.. The cover of the book looks tempting..lol.. Thank you very much.

Reviewer: rod case
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great simple recipes that give excellent results!

Reviewer: Lyn Henri
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very easy to follow the impressive looking pastries/cakes recipes.