easy desserts & recipes: crunchy cookie topped cream puffs & profiterole’s & choux cream puffs

Cream puffs, profiterole, or as it is known in Japan, “choux cream puffs”, are a gift from the gods! There are so many types of pastries but no other can be as delectable as choux cream puffs. We oftentimes fail to think about just how such a delicious creation has come to pass because we are always enthralled with the burst of scrumptiousness whenever we bite into any pastry, most especially a choux puff. Pastries have been made to intoxicate the senses and it especially affects one’s senses of smell, sight, and taste. The choux cream is no exception. Its origin and the name “profiterole” is ambiguous, but many sources have traced it to North Eastern Italy, and this term has graced man’s lips in English and was borrowed from the French as early as the 16th century. At the time, it was a kind of roll that was baked... Read the Rest →

 

easy desserts & recipes: choux à la crème (meet marie)

The two creators of myFudo, one of the most fun and informative food community sites in the Internet, are great friends who have not yet seen each other in “real” life. If asked what they would do if they did get to meet, these would be their answers: If someone had told me years ago that I would find true friendship in the Internet, I wouldn’t have believed them. I would have shrugged of the very idea that I would find any remote semblance of a friend in any person I meet on the computer. But life is unpredictable, and gave me an unexpected gift in the form of Camille. Although we have never met in real life, I hold her dear to my heart and consider her a friend in every sense of the word. Would you believe that we have been friends for three years now? Wow! Managing... Read the Rest →

 

easy desserts & recipes: choux à la crème (meet marie)

The two creators of myFudo, one of the most fun and informative food community sites in the Internet, are great friends who have not yet seen each other in “real” life. If asked what they would do if they did get to meet, these would be their answers: If someone had told me years ago that I would find true friendship in the Internet, I wouldn’t have believed them. I would have shrugged of the very idea that I would find any remote semblance of a friend in any person I meet on the computer. But life is unpredictable, and gave me an unexpected gift in the form of Camille. Although we have never met in real life, I hold her dear to my heart and consider her a friend in every sense of the word. Would you believe that we have been friends for three years now? Wow! Managing... Read the Rest →