Author: Renee Shelton

Pastry Sampler Tip Catalog and Pictorial Tip Family Guide

Pastry Sampler Tip Catalog and Pictorial Tip Family Guide

The new Pastry Sampler tip catalog is now up on MagCloud. It contains all the major pastry tip groupings for easy reference. Enjoy!         Pastry Sampler By Renee Shelton in Pastry Sampler Reference Guides & Catalogs 36 pages, published 6/6/2012 The Pastry Sampler Pastry Tip 

St. Honoré – The Cake, The Saint, and The Pastry Tip

St. Honoré – The Cake, The Saint, and The Pastry Tip

The St. Honoré tip is by far the most requested of the specialty pastry tips I carry. It looks like a large plain tip with a v cut in the front. And if you have ever had this dessert, you would understand its elegant appeal. 

‘3’ Cakes: Tres Leches and Trois Freres

‘3’ Cakes: Tres Leches and Trois Freres

I was going to talk about a Tres Leches cake but thought about the Trois Frères cake, too. Completely different cakes, but both revolve around the number three. So, I decided to talk about both. Tres Leches Cake As the name suggests, this Mexican dessert is 

Classical Pastry Terms & Definitions: The Pièce Montée

Classical Pastry Terms & Definitions: The Pièce Montée

A friend asked me recently if couverture and chocolate were interchangeable terms. They are not (chocolate is a general term; couverture is premium chocolate with a specific amount of cocoa butter inside) but this made me think of other pastry terms that were vague or 

Pastry Chef Tshirt in an Etsy Treasury

Pastry Chef Tshirt in an Etsy Treasury

My Pastry Chef tshirt was recent listed in an Etsy Treasury. It’s always fun to see them in different treasuries, collections of different products on a them. This one is different though, and not food orientated. It is called: “Searching for Stephen Foster’s Song…”Some Folks” …A 

May Newsletter – May Flowers and Mom’s Smiles

May Newsletter – May Flowers and Mom’s Smiles

Spring time is here and depending on where you live, the farmer’s markets are filling with gorgeous fruits. For me, May’s the time for making pies even when the best of the crops haven’t arrived yet. The easiest fruit desserts for me to make are 

Catching Up: Cookie Recipes

Catching Up: Cookie Recipes

Latest cookie recipes on Pastry Sampler: Chocolate Clove Drops with cocoa and clove spice frosting Cinnamon Stars made with a two-step procedure Crispy Crispies – simple vanilla sugar cookie made with Rice Krispies or any brand of crisped rice cereal Financiers – great for tea 

Orlando Festival of Chocolate

Orlando Festival of Chocolate

Coming soon: The Orlando Festival of Chocolate. April 27th to April 29th at the UCF Arena in Orlando. Demonstrations and seminars include the Cocoa Couture Fashion Show, How to Taste Chocolate, The Art of Creating Chocolate Figurines with Nicholl Notter, and all kinds of hands on 

Pastry Sampler Giveaway 3 – All-Girls Molds and Cutters

Pastry Sampler Giveaway 3 – All-Girls Molds and Cutters

This Giveaway is all about the girl – molds and cutters are all themed together. Great for girls’ birthday or tea parties. Included are chocolate, fondant, mint, and candy molds, and cookie cutters. A dozen items in all, retail value over $25.00. Lots of ways 

Upcoming Commercial Bakery Equipment Auctions

Upcoming Commercial Bakery Equipment Auctions

Here is a listing of bakery auction and auctions with bakery, pastry, commissary equipment. Supermarket, Bakery and Commissary Public auction – double rack oven, proofer, spiral mixers, dough dividers, grinders, ovens, etc. April 25th – begins 11:03am eastern 1224 NE 7th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 

Peach Cobbler – Variations and Versions

Peach Cobbler – Variations and Versions

Today is National Peach Cobbler Day. My go-to recipe for peach cobbler at home comes straight from the pages of Southern Living Magazine. I was a fan of the magazine long before my big move to the South, and have yet to try a recipe 

National Chinese Almond Cookie Day

National Chinese Almond Cookie Day

Celebrate National Chinese Almond Cookie Day by making these crisp almond flavored sugar cookies, often baked with a whole blanched almond on top. Brush the tops with a simple yolk glaze to create a shiny surface after baking. Here’s one version to get you started. 

Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw

Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw

Kim Laidlaw’s Home Baked Comfort has fast become a favorite read. Not only does she provide tips, and lists her favorite kitchen tools, all the recipes are enhanced with gorgeous photography by Eric Wolfinger. The photos alone are worthy of a book all to themselves. Laidlaw’s Amazing Baking 

Latest Read: Fine Cooking Cookies

Latest Read: Fine Cooking Cookies

Making cookies is a holiday pastime for me and the family, and I have a few tried and true cookbooks I reference back to just about every season. Fine Cooking Cookies: 200 Favorite Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars & More contains great recipes to try 

Photos from the Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich

Photos from the Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich

Here is a slideshow of the gorgeous models wearing chocolate from the Salon du Chocolat in Zurich, on March 29, 2012. I still don’t know how they can look so calm wearing chocolate – without fear of it melting on the runway. http://photogallery.thestar.com/1153738, courtesy thestar.com, 

Two Great Cake Pop Books

Two Great Cake Pop Books

Like other people, I’m addicted and attracted to cake pops. I even have a cake pop board on Pinterest with all the cake pops I want to try for my kids when I have the time (yeah, right). Cake pops are everywhere. If you’ve never