For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

Dufour Pastry Kitchens, based in New York, is adored by home cooks for its frozen puff pastry sheets — it has won awards — with an incredibly buttery flavor and all-natural ingredients. After thawing, ...

Miso-spiked caramel is the secret to these buttery, apple-filled pastries. Paige Grandjean is a food editor, recipe developer, and food stylist with over seven years of experience in food media. Her ...

Unless you’re a professional pastry chef, you probably make just a couple of pies a year — at most. As we head into peak pie-baking season, we talked to people who bake hundreds of pies each year, and ...

It’s easy to become a better baker if you have these kitchen tools. Liv Dansky has worked for Food & Wine since 2019 as a recipe tester and developer and, more recently, as a writer. Her work can be ...

You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and filling. But even the pros appreciate a good shortcut … ...

Ah, the art of the puff pastry. The seemingly humble dough is used as a flaky base for all number of bakes, from pot pies to turnovers, tarts, and even beef Wellington. But don't let its simplistic ...