You can make this pastry in a food processor or by hand. Cream together the butter, sugar and salt and then rub or pulse in the flour and egg yolks. When this mixture has come together, looking like ...

Even more than hors d’oeuvre, a New Year’s party needs dessert. Ringing in the New Year with something sweet symbolizes the wish for a sweet year ahead. Besides, if you’re celebrating late into the ...

If you love apples and almonds, this is your dessert :) This pie (tarte) is a culinary specialty from Normandy made with almonds, eggs, sugar, and cream, over an almond sablé crust. A true delight for ...

Put away the matzo meal. Bay Area blogger Andrea Potischman of Simmer + Sauce has bestowed upon us the secret to delicious Passover from-scratch baking: almond flour. We caught up with Potischman of ...

Combine butter, sugar, salt, and eggs in mixing bowl. Mix on low speed until mixture is creamy. Slowly add flour to mixture. Mix as little as possible to incorporate flour. Remove dough from bowl.

Crumbs carry a reputation as crummy. But they can come in handy, breading chicken or bolstering meatball. Once, I watched a chef slip a layer of crumbs between fruit-tart pastry and fruit-tart fruit.

In a food processor, pulse the flour, sugar and salt for a few seconds until combined. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture becomes crumbly and resembles coarse meal, about 10 pulses. Beat the ...

This fig and almond tart is gorgeous. The frangipane melts into the almondy crust. Fresh figs burst with flavor. The dough is delicate and somewhat difficult to handle, but well worth the effort. It’s ...

Juicy ripe strawberries make a refreshing topping for this rich, buttery tart from London's The River Café. At the restaurant, the pastry dough is chilled and coarsely grated into the tart pan, then ...