An everyday-cooking recipe for a homemade, all-butter shortcrust pastry (AKA pie crust), plus everything you need to know about making one. ...Read More
The sour-cream-and-butter dough for these homemade Blackberry-Saskatoon Hand Pies is somewhere in between pie crust and pastry. A touch of glaze makes them perfectly sweet. They're sort of like Pop-Ta...Read More
This recipe produces the Polish kolachy that grandma made back in the day: cream cheese pastry dough with jam, jelly, or preserves (or maybe nuts) for filling, sprinkled with powdered sugar. It's thou...Read More
Bonjour Cafe Bakery - in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood - bakes up authentically French pastries that are among the best in the city. I was incredibly excited to have them cater the desserts for my ...Read More
Beurrage's vanilla glazed doughnut is unparalleled. You can get them in the South Loop at La Haven, or at the source in Pilsen. If you're not in a doughnut mood - if that's possible - Beurrage makes f...Read More