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FALL OFF THE CAKE before you’re done with it. Italian, french, whatever...I haven’t found a truly heat proof buttercream yet. My SO requests a cake with buttercream every year for his June birthday, so I go thru this...

There is a pastry called a FRENCH WAFFLE which is a long puff pastry with buttercream in the middle along with a light layer of raspberry jam. I have only been able to find them at a Danish bakery in Santa Barbara called...

I was taught that an Italian Mereingue buttercream uses egg whites only. Maybe another meringue buttercream uses creme anglaise (e.g. Swiss, French, some other European country!)? Not sure.

Have you ever been to Butter Lane? They do cupcakes with both American style buttercream and French style buttercream. Maybe the French style would be more to your liking.

This is the cheater’s version I was taught in cooking school where you were too pressed for time to make a real, french buttercream. I no longer have original class notes, but this is the recipe from Professional Baking...

I’ve done a French buttercream, which is pastry cream and butter, and have just added chocolate ganache at about a 12:1 ratio. As for the cake, cocoa does suck the moisture out of things. But you shouldn’t ever need...

results. And, overall I was really pleased with how the frosting came out—rich but not so buttery as to resemble a french/italian buttercream, and sweet but not so sweet as to resemble the typical american buttercream. The...

got sick and threw out the batch. I tried some buttercream frosting recipe, with eggs. The eggs won’t cook properly (very gunky), and I’m throwing it out. So my plea is in two parts: (1) can you share a buttercream...

to consider a French buttercream which uses egg yolks instead of egg whites. Nonetheless, there’s no reason you couldn’t add either of the coconut or coffee flavors at the end of the mixing. If you’re going to...

. Also, it can be shockingly sweet. Of course, I would like to find the ultimate buttercream recipe: easy, bakery-like, light (to the touch...I know it will in no way be good for me!) and hopefully not made w/a cup of Crisco. I...

. i don’t really know any of this technical stuff. but you could do a meringue that is stabilized with hot sugar syrup, then fold in passionfruit pulp and, if you like, some whipped cream. not a buttercream, but kind of a...

Where can I find a reasonably priced good french pastry shop. I would love to put away some tasty french pastries with rasberry season coming on.

I just returned from Paris where I fell in love with French Macarons... Yummy wasabi/greentea, chocolate/orange, caramel/fleur de sel, and more... Does anyone know a bakery shop in town that makes them? I heard through an...

You might try finding The French Cookie Book by Bruce Healy with Paul Bugat. William Morrow, 1994; ISBN: 0-688-08833-3. It has 20 macaroon recipes.