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How To: Work with frozen puff pastry

When you need pastry or pie dough in a hurry, frozen puff pastry is the king of supermarket convenience foods. It's incredibly versatile and can be used to make a huge array of hors d'oeuvre, main courses, and desserts. Frequent Fine Cooking contributor and cooking teacher Jessica Bard demonstrates some tricks for getting the best results when working with frozen puff pastry. Work with frozen puff pastry.

How To: Make almond cake

Chef Martha Stewart demonstrates how to make almond cake. Martha makes the building block - the almond cake layers. She uses almond paste, sugar, butter, and eggs then blends it all together to make the first layer of the almond cake. Make almond cake - Part 1 of 15.

How To: Make harvest apple pie

Chef Jim Dodge demonstrates how to make harvest apple pie; A beautiful, old-fashioned apple pie - the techniques shown can also be used to make other pies, from cherry, rhubarb, or apple to steak or kidney. In part one, he demonstrates how to make the dough and peel the apples. Make harvest apple pie.

How To: Make an apple pie

Apple pie ingredients are 9 1/2 inch pie plate. For the crust you will need flour, shortening, salt, water, butter. For the filling you will need apples, lemon, cinnamon, allspice, sugar, butter or margarine. A little milk and egg might be used for the top of the pie.

How To: Make creme fraiche custard brioche tart

Chef Nancy Silverton demonstrates how to make creme fraiche custard brioche tart. Silverton fills buttery brioche dough with crème fraiche custard, beginning the creation of her tart. Silverton makes a sabayon and finishes assembling her crème fraiche brioche tart. Make creme fraiche custard brioche tart.

How To: Make bread and butter pudding

Julia Child and Graham Kerr demonstrate two recipes for bread and butter pudding - one with cinnamon and sugar and the other with dried fruits. The recipes are lower in fat than traditional recipes. Graham and Julia have a clever comraderie, as well. Serve with whipped cream. Make bread and butter pudding.

How To: Make poppyseed torte

Chef Farbinger demonstrates how to poach apricots and make Austrian poppyseed torte. The history of Vienesse pastry talks about the native ingredient of the apricot. Farbinger demonstrates how to decorate the poppyseed torte after it's finished baking. Make poppyseed torte.

How To: Make babas and savarin

Chef David Blom demonstrates how to make babas and savarin - A yeast dough, enriched with butter and eggs, baked in two different shapes. It's a very spongy dough. Chef Blom demonstrates how to prepare the molds with melted butter and then adds the dough to the molds. Make babas and savarin.

How To: Make Viennese cardinal slice

Chef Markus Farbinger demonstrates how to make Viennese cardinal slice - layers of genoise-like cake and meringue with a filling of espresso whipped cream. In part one, Chef Farbinger demonstrates how to prepare the pastry tray and make meringues with a pastry bag. Make Viennese cardinal slice.

How To: Make triple citrus meringue tart

Make triple citrus meringue tart. Lemon custard, meringue and flaky crust are combined with lime and orange flavoring, putting a unique spin on an original lemon meringue pie. In part one, they demonstrate how to take the orange zest off the orange, chop it up, make the dough, and slice lemons. Make triple citrus meringue tart.

How To: Make apple charlotte

A delightful take on the traditional apple charlotte, this dessert is made with toasted bread slices and chunks of apple, rather than the usual applesauce. This video discusses how to assemble this apple bread pudding. The traditional version uses applesauce which collapses out of the mold. Only use golden delicious or hard apples, to keep shape. Make apple charlotte.

How To: Make white chocolate pattycake

Chef Marcel Desaulniers demonstrates how to make white chocolate pattycake with chocolate tulips - using white and dark chocolate and fresh raspberries, sugar and egg yolk. Use a high powered egg beater or electric whisk to dissolve the sugar in the yolks and make the ribbon and soft peaks. Make white chocolate pattycake.

How To: Make homemade ice cream

In this series of dessert recipe videos, our experienced chef and caterer shares his secret for making delicious home-made ice cream. You will learn the steps in preparing strawberry and vanilla ice cream, with the added bonus of almond pralines to spice up the vanilla!