Deirdre Balao Rieutort-Louis is the Chronicle's 2026 Best Pastry Chef award winner for her creative, playful desserts that ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

Easy tips or add-in ingredients can upgrade any boxed cake mix. As a pastry cook, these are my favorite ways to make a box of ...

These effortless pastry ideas are winning attention for their taste and simplicity. Try these three recipes and see why ...

Camari Mick, former pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Musket Room in New York City, offers tips for pro-quality baking results at home Camari Mick opened a donut pop-up during the pandemic. Her ...

For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

In what feels like another lifetime (2016), I was working as a pastry cook in a French restaurant in New York City. Baking in a professional setting, I picked up many tricks to work efficiently and ...

If you count yourself a fan of Ina Garten, you’re probably familiar with at least a handful of her most talked-about recipes. There’s the chicken Marbella, the giant cosmopolitan, the engagement ...

Eight-week intensive blends classical technique, modern pastry training, hands-on production, and career support for aspiring pastry professionals and serious home bakers DENVER, April 9, 2026 ...

The Butter Book® has been named the winner of the 2026 F&B@Sea Trailblazing F&B Technology Award, earning industry ...