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Cream-Filled Pastries

Cream puffs, éclairs, and beyond! Your kitchen will feel like a French patisserie in no time.
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Cream-Filled Pastries

About this Class

You don’t need to hop a flight to Paris to enjoy patisserie-worthy cream-filled pastries, but you do need to learn a few key techniques. In this class, we’ll begin with pâte à choux, the classic French pastry dough used to make cream puffs, éclairs, and profiteroles. You’ll learn the stovetop-to-oven method that creates light, airy, well-puffed pastry with a delicately crisp crust. Since you can’t make a cream-filled pastry without cream filling, you’ll also learn how to make pastry cream—the classic rich, creamy custard—in different flavors. Then you’ll learn how to load a pastry bag and pipe the filling into pâte à choux to make some unforgettable desserts.

Meet Your Instructors

Author: Christie Morrison

Christie Morrison

Editorial Director, Classes

Christie Morrison is Editorial Director, Classes and an on-screen test cook for Cook’s Country. As editorial director, she creates the curriculum for ATK Classes and is executive producer for Classes video content. She has been a cooking class instructor since 2016. As a senior editor for Cook’s Country magazine from 2013 to 2016 and an associate editor on the Books team prior to that, she developed, tested, and edited recipes. Christie was also a culinary producer for Cook’s Country for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Christie has a BA in English from Dickinson College and an MA in English from Bucknell University. A midcareer change brought her to Boston, where she received her culinary diploma from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (CSCA). In addition to teaching professional and recreational cooking classes at CSCA, Christie has worked in restaurants and catering kitchens in Boston.

Lessons

Class Progress

1Pastry and Piping Basics

2Put Your Choux Paste to Work

3Choux au Craquelin