Creating and enjoying delicious and decadent pastries requires care and control throughout the baking process. You’ll also need the right tools, including an effective pastry cutter, which maintains ...

Working in professional kitchens, I got pretty used to always having certain things at my fingertips: a fully stocked pantry, the highest quality produce, a large staff to battle the prep work. But ...

Cookie cutters are valuable tools in any kitchen because they add precision and whimsy to whatever you’re baking. Picture rows of heart-shaped cookies tumbling from gleaming copper cutters or chonky ...

‘For me, this was an opportunity to create tools that would be as good for amateurs as they are for professionals,’ says famed pastry chef Cédric Grolet (who shares a summer dessert recipe, below) ...

Few things make people as nervous in the kitchen as making pastry dough. This is understandable because it’s easy to get wrong, and you can end up with something tough or soggy, instead of a light and ...

Select independently determines what we cover and recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Biting into a warm cookie is pure bliss whether you prefer soft, melt ...

Welcome to our new(ish) column, “Ask the Pastry Chef,” by Amy Morris, a pastry sous chef at J&G Steakhouse. Have a question for Amy? Leave it in the comments section. There are many directions to go ...