Continuing with my bad experiences on the matter of food making… I created something using two packs of heavy cream that I bought for my Saint Honoré cake. I attempted to create a Saint Honore cake that uses two packs of heavy cream in the ingredients.
It’s a classic French pastry with a lot of caramel, profiteroles, whipped cream and puff pastry. When it’s well made it is delicious and beautiful. But in my case ended up really, really bad.
Before I go on, I do need to enfacise that making mistakes is actually the best way to learn.Mistakes are not onlyhelpful to learn from in the kitchen but also for life in general.
In this particular case, I did learn that when people say pastry is like studying chemistry its totally true. I will never, ever again make a dessert without the right measurements. What happened, as I’ve said here before, I was trying to switch measurements from my spanish book to my american tools.
I decided to make the same whipped cream that I was going to prepare for the cake and served it with a simple apricot pie. That, I have to confess, was purchased at a really cute and good bakery called French Memories.
Most people will say that buying the cream already whipped makes their lives a lot easier. I’m not talking about simplifying anybody’s life. I’m talking about great taste. It just takes about five minutes to mix some cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar. Another tip to impress the guests is to arrange the whipped cream nicely with a pastry bag (if you don’t have one just put the cream in a zip lock and make a little hole on the side to decorate the plates).
Something else that I love to make with cream is panna cotta – my favorite italian dessert.
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