Reddit reviews Patisserie at Home

One of the most beautiful books / series is Patisserie at Home by Melanie Dupuis. There are a couple more like The Complete Guide to Baking: Bread, Brioche and Other Gourmet Treats, French Cooking at Home and The Ultimate Book of Party Food. They are simply stunning!

It's from this book.

This week we went back to eclairs. Our last ones tragically deflated, and the cream was eggy, and the chocolate a mess. In comparison, these were amazing!

For Christmas I received this cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Patisserie-at-Home-Melanie-Dupuis/dp/0062445316/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=C61K2GF8TTX5QQAR714M, which is quite good. It has "Learn" and "Understand" sections about the various recipes. Additionally, the recipes are all for the individual components (creams, pastries, techniques, etc.) and so composition is quite easy.

The recipes all included good tells for knowing when components were cooked enough, particularly the choux, which had a nice crackling noise to listen for.

They took a very long time but were definitely worth it in the end, and a huge improvement over our last effort!