What do you get when you level up on choux puff pastry? We had a eureka moment when the three of us taste-tested this Paris Brest recipe – perfect pastry with crunch, filled with a velvety smooth hazelnut mousseline made with creme patissiere, hazelnut paste, icing sugar and a whipped butter (which is so light!)…
Tag: Hazelnut
Gianduia stuffed chocolate cookies (or just Surprise Cookies!)
I’m borderline obsessed with hazelnuts. One of my favourite ways of incorporating them are in these bars. I have been planning on making something with the Hogarth Milk Chocolate Hazelnut logs and an idea came to mind as I was making my gazillionth cookie over the Easter weekend: how about stuffing these inside a cookie?…
Chocolate hazelnut mousse entremet
“What’s more delicious than a pot of velvety chocolate mousse?” I asked J, my 5 year old daughter. She looked puzzled, not that she didn’t understand me, but that it was already quite up there on her ‘best food moments’ list I think. “One decorated with all sorts of chocolatey bites and pearls, perhaps?” I…
Hazelnut cocoa nibs cookies
Today J helped me with some freezer cookie dough. These are the ones I always have in the freezer, to be whipped out in a second when cookies are called for in short notice. You can replace the hazelnuts with other nuts you like: pistachios, macadamias or cashews. Ingredients 1 cup hazelnuts, finely chopped 1…
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