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World-famous pastry chef Dominique Ansel (creator of the Cronut) joins Bon Appétit to demonstrate how to make the perfect croissant at his NYC bakery. Learn every step, from mixing and fermenting the dough to laminating with French butter, shaping, proofing, and baking for that signature flaky, golden crust and moist honeycomb interior.
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“We make about 13 to 14,000 cookies every week. For wholesale it's about 28,000 items weekly. We can get all of these things done with planning, a great team, and really big mixers.” Bon Appetit spends a day on the line with Brianna Fortiz, pastry chef at The Good Batch in Brooklyn, a small bakery that also operates as a mini factory for 200 wholesale clients in New York.
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Return to your childhood with class and try our Croque Monsieur recipe!
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“In a tasting menu restaurant, everybody gets a dessert. So if you have 80 a day, you gotta have 80 desserts a day. We have to be very fast. There's only a couple of other restaurants in the city that has two Michelin stars.” Go behind the scenes at Providence with pastry chef Mac Daniel Dimla for a day crafting decadent desserts in the heart of Hollywood.
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Bon Appetit's Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet Twinkie without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients. The first test is Genoise cake, an Italian sponge cake. For the creamy filling, Claire uses 7 minute frosting. The second test is yellow cake and buttercream filling. Next comes chiffon cake, a light cake that uses vegetable oil. Finally, with some help from Test Kitchen Manager Brad Leone, Claire decides to "Frankenstein" the recipe.
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Gooey inside, crispy outside. That's a pizza roll. (Also, burning the heck out of the roof of your mouth). Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Totino's Pizza Rolls.
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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Claire Saffitz takes on another challenge, this time to recreate the tastes of the rainbow... Gourmet-style.
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This Super Bowl season, you can have cold—and likely congealed—seven-layer dip from the supermarket, or…you can make this warm, melty version begging to be scooped up and eaten. Join food editor Shilpa Uskokovic in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she prepares her warm and cheesy seven-layer dip, the perfect palate pleaser for game-day.
Get the recipe: Warm Seven-Layer Skillet Dip
Get the recipe: Warm Seven-Layer Skillet Dip
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Everyone loves Lucky Charms! Watch Claire's attempt to recreate your favorite childhood cereal.
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Learn how to make the perfect brioche French toast with chef Neil Kleinberg of Clinton Street Baking Company. Discover the restaurant secrets behind custardy French toast, from thick-cut brioche and balanced batter to caramelised bananas and rich maple butter for a delicious brunch recipe at home.
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Chocolate puff pastry meets sugar meets your new favorite cookie.
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Starting with store-bought pizza dough makes the dream of weeknight calzones actually attainable. Most doughs are sold in 1-lb. bags, but certain brands give you more. Roll any extra dough into ropes, tie in knots, and brush with a little olive oil mixed with a grated garlic clove. Bake until golden brown to make the easiest garlic knots.
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Alright, look. We're warning you now. Don't mix Mentos and Coke at home unless you want to spend way too long cleaning up afterwards. Anyway, making Mentos should be just like making Skittles, right? So this shouldn't take too long... hmm.
Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she makes gourmet Mentos.
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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Follow Executive Pastry Chef Caroline Schiff of Gage & Tollner through an entire day preparing the breads and dessert menu at an iconic 143 year-old New York restaurant. From feeding her beloved sourdough starter "Edna" to trying new cheesecake creations and flaming baked alaskas, see how these professional chefs keep a kitchen humming day in, day out.
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How many of you experience sense memory when you think about eating Warheads when you were kids? You know, that sour feeling on the back of your tastebuds? Well, pastry chef Claire Saffitz is setting out to recreate that sensation as she attempts to make gourmet Warheads.
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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There’s nothing like a moist, fluffy, berry-streaked cake to make any weeknight (or, um, weekday morning) feel special.
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We show you how to make four simple and delicious pastry recipes to impress your friends.
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Edan Leshnick, head pastry chef at Breads Bakery in New York, takes us behind the scenes to demonstrate and explain every tool he and the staff use in preparing their supremely popular baked goods. Joined for the tour by Darwin Castillo, head of the bread department, get an in-depth look at a professional high-volume bakery in action - with massive dough mixers and immersion blenders supplying roaring deck ovens.
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Nougat. Caramel. Peanuts. Chocolate. The building blocks of a Snickers bar. Each taken alone is simple enough (well maybe not the nougat), but together they become a different monster. Join Claire Saffitz as she attempts to make a gourmet version of a Snickers bar!
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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Grated coconut may not be everybody's cup of tea, but there is no denying that this candy is an absolute classic. In this episode, Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet version of Almond Joys, that almond, coconut and chocolate Halloween staple.
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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Is there any time of day when a pancake isn’t welcome at the table? What about a Savory Dutch Baby that mixes up in seconds? Didn’t think so.
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Join pastry chef Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet Starburst.
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/
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Reese's Pieces, Reese's Miniature Cups, Reese's Sticks, Reese's Big Cups, Reese's Big Cups Stuffed with Crunchy Cookie, Reese's Big Cups Stuffed with Reese's Pieces(!), Reese's Pumpkins and a million other Reese's variants. But there can only be one Reese's product that Claire can gourmet-ize: the classic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of Reese's.
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Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make a gourmet version of everybody's favorite chocolate candy that melts in your mouth, not your hand: M&M's!
Check out Claire's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/