Choux pastry is most often used to make the base for eclairs and cream puffs. However, it can be used for so much more—like as the base for a beautiful karpatka cake. This layered dessert is ...

Meant to be a showstopper, this celebratory dessert doesn't just look impressive — it's delicious too! It gets its wonderful flavour from elderflower crème Chiboust, caramel sauce and the lemony zing ...

This impressive layer cake is a traditional Polish dessert called karpatka, featured in baker Laurel Kratochvila’s new cookbook, Dobre Dobre. Its gorgeous, airy choux-pastry crusts sandwich a silky, ...

We had something of a feast the other night. A pan of scallops grilled and basted with basil butter, a mound of lemon mashed potatoes and an extravagant pudding – a choux pastry cake filled with an ...

We've all grown up admiring chocolate éclairs in cake shops. I remember my first taste of profiteroles slathered in hot chocolate sauce, after my mum let me help with her glamorous dinner party ...

Created during the late 1800s to celebrate the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race, the ring shape of this choux pastry cake clearly symbolises a wheel. Classic, rich and generous, it is certainly a ...

If you're not a fan of the usual Yuletide fruitcake, pastry chef Shane Smith's decadent, decorative Christmas cakes are guaranteed to impress your guests. Serves 10 1. For the coconut and white ...