I love when ATK does more complex recipes, especially pastries. Shows that anyone can make an outstanding show-stopping dessert and have the confidence that the recipe is going to work. They can do it because they know exactly how each step should look! Thank you for making something that could be intimidating actually doable.
I lived in France for about 9 months and LOVED these. I live in NYC/NJ and haven't been able to find any bakery or French restaurant that can make this anywhere near what they had in France. I think I'm going to have to try my hand at this.
OK I don't usually comment but this was an *excellent* episode. I'm an intermediate level home cook but always shy away from French pastry due to the intimidation factor. This actually makes a classic pastry look entirely doable and I think I'm going to try it. Two huge thumbs up for breaking down, ATK-style, a dessert I've always assumed would be too complex/difficult to tackle. Also just a little note regarding the glass receptacle on the burr grinder - some people (me included) actually look for glass rather than plastic components in the kitchen. It's more breakable obviously but for health reasons I'm moving away from plastic where possible. No one has to agree or do the same as me but just wanted to point out that glass, even if it's more breakable, isn't always a bad thing for all people. Again great ep, thank you!
I worked at a French restaurant and the baker made the most amazing, classic French desserts. None stays in my memory like the Paris-Brest. Perhaps a bit complicated for me, but I love watching Bridget make - and explain the many steps - this.
My friends think I'm possessed cooking these amazing recipes. I act like I've cooked like this all my life but it's from watching this channel. They make excuses to come for dinner, I love it.
This really isn't all that complicated. It's pretty much just following the technique that they lay out. There's no need for perfectly level layers or attempting to smooth fussy icing. Like cream puffs, it looks a lot more complicated and difficult than it is. I made one years ago for my mother-in-law's birthday, with fresh fruit along with the pastry cream and a drizzling of melted chocolate over all. Everyone loved it and it was a big hit! I didn't use the praline paste in my pastry cream but I've made praline for other deserts.
That looks so good!. Kind of long process, but worth it at the end. ATK makes fantastic recipes that are easy to make. They make current recipes better by tweaking it and make it easier to cook. Cooks Country also does a great job with recipes. I never miss an episode and DVR all of the shows. I was a terrible chef until I started watching these shows from the beginning many, many years ago. Great shows from PBS to which I donate to them.
Hello Tera How are you doing? You know you can always create room to try out new things right? It is always fun getting busy in the kitchen trying out new recipes and new tastes lol. I hope you are staying safe?
@@vincentgriffin1382 yes, I love trying new things...maybe someday I will give it a go...when I have my own kitchen lol...I'm doing my best to stay safe...hoping you're staying safe as well...
Wow!!! You gals really hit it outta the park with such a sophisticated French pastry! Shoulda made a great cup of coffee with that using the grinder that won the best selection earlier. Oh this is what I will make for my son's birthday...he will love it! Last time we had Paris-Brest was in Quebec City many years ago...
I don't think my uneducated American palate could appreciate the effort that goes into this. Unfortunately, I have a severe allergy to Hazelnuts so after the first crumb of Hazelnut, I would be off to the Hospital for a month of recovery. It looks fabulous though.
And it is an AMAZING chocolate bar! We made a cake from Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Cake Bible" that has chocolate sheets with the praline powder wrapped around it. The chocolate is crunchy. with tiny golden sweet or nutty grains. Yum! I once molded the praline chocolates for decorations on my sister's birthday cake. I, ahem, kept back some, er, test runs for sampling...to ensure quality control.
This was my very fave dessert from culinary school! If someone made this for me, I would prob marry them. Well, I'll stay married to my baker hubby, but he doesn't really like making choux, he's a whiz at bread, but doesn't get how to not burn his choux on the stove lol. He prob would if I walked him through it again, but he has bad memories from exam day.
I have never had choux collapse completely while in the oven before, now I tried to make this two times and it was disastrous both times. I blamed it on opening the oven to take the small ring out, so for the second attempts I didn't bake them simultaneously. The small ring worked perfectly. The big ring collapsed after about 25 minutes in the oven, without any interaction from me other than me turning the heat down.
Can’t someone address this? My choux experience is limited to basic cream puffs & profiteroles. I wonder if more heat at the beginning of the bake would set the crust better?
I wonder if it is indeed four eggs. The egg on the far right in the measuring cup looks like it might be optically distorted by the glass and liquid whites to create the appearance of an extra yolk. But, I'm not 100% sure.
A hand cranked food or nut mill will grind the nuts very fine. My original Betty Crocker cookbook has a recipe for almond paste that refers to using a food grinder. And before that in my White House Cookbook from 1884, they used a mortar and pestle.
Hello Donna How are you doing? I have heard about such machines before but don't know how helpful that can be in trying to make good meals lol. It is always fun getting busy in the kitchen trying out new recipes and new tastes lol. I hope you are staying safe?
At 2:10 she says we have 4 eggs but there are clearly 5 yolks in there... they are going for 1 cup so they'll discard any extra but it comes out to almost exactly one cup.
Another great video by ATK. Two requests: 1. equipment test sieves 2. please start testing and developing recipes that are sugar free that taste as good as recipes that have sugar. Not all sugar-free sweeteners are created or taste equal. My family and my son-in-law’s family are diabetic and it’s hard to stay away from carbs when ATK’s recipes are so good.
I recently purchased a burr grinder, I went for a more midrange cost as the one recommended here was far to expensive for me to justify it (Canadian pricing that is). I'm happy with the one I chose. HOWEVER!! one thing I need to recommend and stress for all grinders. Being that it's winter, my climate is very dry.... Whenever I need to buy a new grinder, I will NOT buy one with a plastic hoper or catch. The STATIC charge created with grinding is a nightmare! It sends grounds everywhere!! It's an absolute mess... I've since learned a trick about stirring a few drops of water into the beans prior to grinding them and it has made a dramatic difference. But overall, I think glass or even maybe a metal material would be a better choice in the future. So buyer beware, considering how dry it is where you live and maybe look at glass as an alternative. Or you may be spending your mornings sweeping your kitchen and counters....
Wow- another reason to choose glass. I was disappointed to hear Adam advocate plastic. Plastic is terrible on so many levels - 1. environmental is most important to me - plastic is a petroleum product and enormous warehouses full of plastic trash which can’t be used in any way (9% of your ‘recycled’ plastic is actually recycled), 2. Plastic scratches & looks terrible after a few washes, 3. The chemicals imparted to your food through gasses, or tiny bits scratched off. Come ON, ATK!
I made this. It sucked. French desserts are lame. By comparison, the timeless dessert from Zimbabwe, Uhm Fufu, made with baboon livers, is absolutely delicious! Though, it might be difficult to find those livers in many places. But in South Africa, they are plentiful and inexpensive.
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Things cost what they cost. Upgrading to grinding your coffee is purely optional and $100-140 is a nominal cost over years vs. how much it costs to consume coffee regularly, even home made.
@@TheGreektrojan Or one could just go with a $50 model that works just as well and use the $50-$90 you save to buy more delicious coffee. I own one of the "cheap" models they tested, have had it for 6 years, and it does a perfectly fine job of, wait for it... grinding coffee. I'd love to know exactly what they think the $100 "best buy" does SO much better than the $50 model that it's worth spending twice as much. But this is the typical ATK mentality: expensive is always better. Thing is, it's not. Not everyone wants to, or can, spend twice as much as they need to, and ATK doesn't really seem to get this. It's why I find all of their equipment and product reviews to be a total joke.
@@sandrah7512 Not sure the point you're trying to make. Which ones did they absolutely not recommend? The cheapest ones. Which got some level of recommendation? The most expensive. This is way all ATK reviews go. Expensive is always better, and the most expensive is almost always the "best". While I can't read the actual reviews because I don't subscribe (and why would I since I know which is going to be the "best" before I even watch), I'm sure they ding the cheaper models for not having conical burrs (which in their own testing made no appreciable difference in taste), fewer grind settings (ya just need 1 that works for you), or some other nonsense that ultimately makes little difference in the end result, that is, ground coffee that tastes good. If you can't taste the difference between coffee ground on a $130 grinder versus a $30 grinder, why spend $130? So you can thump your chest knowing you have the "best" one? It's ridiculous.
I love when ATK does more complex recipes, especially pastries. Shows that anyone can make an outstanding show-stopping dessert and have the confidence that the recipe is going to work. They can do it because they know exactly how each step should look! Thank you for making something that could be intimidating actually doable.
I made Paris-Brest at home with a friend a few years ago. I highly recommend doing it with a friend to share in the labor. Absolutely delicious!
Yeah, took the whole episode for one item. I hope the used the extra dough and cream to make a smaller one. Maybe with some strawberries.
I lived in France for about 9 months and LOVED these. I live in NYC/NJ and haven't been able to find any bakery or French restaurant that can make this anywhere near what they had in France. I think I'm going to have to try my hand at this.
OK I don't usually comment but this was an *excellent* episode. I'm an intermediate level home cook but always shy away from French pastry due to the intimidation factor. This actually makes a classic pastry look entirely doable and I think I'm going to try it. Two huge thumbs up for breaking down, ATK-style, a dessert I've always assumed would be too complex/difficult to tackle. Also just a little note regarding the glass receptacle on the burr grinder - some people (me included) actually look for glass rather than plastic components in the kitchen. It's more breakable obviously but for health reasons I'm moving away from plastic where possible. No one has to agree or do the same as me but just wanted to point out that glass, even if it's more breakable, isn't always a bad thing for all people. Again great ep, thank you!
I worked at a French restaurant and the baker made the most amazing, classic French desserts. None stays in my memory like the Paris-Brest. Perhaps a bit complicated for me, but I love watching Bridget make - and explain the many steps - this.
My friends think I'm possessed cooking these amazing recipes. I act like I've cooked like this all my life but it's from watching this channel. They make excuses to come for dinner, I love it.
I made this for Christmas a couple years back. Everyone loved it!
What a beautiful dessert. You are so talented. Really enjoyed watching you make this.
This really isn't all that complicated. It's pretty much just following the technique that they lay out. There's no need for perfectly level layers or attempting to smooth fussy icing. Like cream puffs, it looks a lot more complicated and difficult than it is. I made one years ago for my mother-in-law's birthday, with fresh fruit along with the pastry cream and a drizzling of melted chocolate over all. Everyone loved it and it was a big hit! I didn't use the praline paste in my pastry cream but I've made praline for other deserts.
You guys have really upped your game. Everyone looks so polished. Hair, make-up, etc. And, you can still cook! Great!
Bravo Bridget!
I’m so excited to make this!! Excellent episode!!
That looks so good!. Kind of long process, but worth it at the end. ATK makes fantastic recipes that are easy to make. They make current recipes better by tweaking it and make it easier to cook. Cooks Country also does a great job with recipes. I never miss an episode and DVR all of the shows. I was a terrible chef until I started watching these shows from the beginning many, many years ago. Great shows from PBS to which I donate to them.
Nobody has ever worked harder for a filling/icing. This is the apex of skill
I am very glad new videos are back and everyone is doing well!!
The bike ride is 750 miles that has a time limit of 90 hours.Little sleep and night riding makes for a very tough ride. Only happens every four years.
All those calories get burned up in a hurry!
Loved the new intro, and so happy to see new videos coming out!
I will never make this lol... But I sure loved watching you do it!! Really beautiful and I bet it's absolutely delicious!!!
Hello Tera
How are you doing? You know you can always create room to try out new things right? It is always fun getting busy in the kitchen trying out new recipes and new tastes lol. I hope you are staying safe?
@@vincentgriffin1382 yes, I love trying new things...maybe someday I will give it a go...when I have my own kitchen lol...I'm doing my best to stay safe...hoping you're staying safe as well...
Wow!!! You gals really hit it outta the park with such a sophisticated French pastry! Shoulda made a great cup of coffee with that using the grinder that won the best selection earlier. Oh this is what I will make for my son's birthday...he will love it! Last time we had Paris-Brest was in Quebec City many years ago...
Bridget and Julia... my favorite!!! If anyone is keeping score :-)
That's one fancy dessert. I'm drooling.
Making for Valentines Day! Thanks 😊
Better start NOW, you might have it done by then.......good luck!
@@mrbear1302 It's not that difficult. Just takes planning. I've done something like this before. You should give it a try!
They really need to invent a working wonkavision so I can reach through my phone and get some of that paris-brest.
I want to work here when I grow up 😍
Wow Julia looks great. They both keep looking better with age.
Do you have a good pudding skin singles recipe?
I don't think my uneducated American palate could appreciate the effort that goes into this. Unfortunately, I have a severe allergy to Hazelnuts so after the first crumb of Hazelnut, I would be off to the Hospital for a month of recovery. It looks fabulous though.
I want to try this method. I tried Bruno Albouz method but I could never get the choux pastry to bake right. This method will hopefully work!
Those candied hazelnuts can easily be turned into a chocolate bar.
And it is an AMAZING chocolate bar! We made a cake from Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Cake Bible" that has chocolate sheets with the praline powder wrapped around it. The chocolate is crunchy. with tiny golden sweet or nutty grains. Yum! I once molded the praline chocolates for decorations on my sister's birthday cake. I, ahem, kept back some, er, test runs for sampling...to ensure quality control.
WOW!!! Can’t wait to try!!!
Too good ❤
Great new intro!
@@sandrah7512 No way! I can't believe I haven't noticed! Thanks
This is a wonderful recipe
That citric acid, basically, turns the
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Wow!! Looks so good
What brand of food processor do you use?
Cuisinart. They are a bit pricey but worth it.
This was my very fave dessert from culinary school! If someone made this for me, I would prob marry them. Well, I'll stay married to my baker hubby, but he doesn't really like making choux, he's a whiz at bread, but doesn't get how to not burn his choux on the stove lol. He prob would if I walked him through it again, but he has bad memories from exam day.
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Looks amazing. I am going to try this using avocado oil instead of vegetable oil since vegetable oil is inflammatory.
You can do whatever you want.
@@kappadappa avocado oil can be used. It’s healthier than vegetable can ever be.
@@carlisle8696 no it’s not.
What are you supposed to do with the remainder of that pastry cream half of it was still in the bag
Other chefs say we need to add one egg at a time, mix, then add another and so on. Why do you add them all at once?
I love to eat; therefore I cook.This dessert looks good but too much work for me; but I love to watch it anyway.
I wanna see this made with a different/easier form factor
Try the Betty Crocker box version available at your local grocer.
you can just use the creme filling for eclairs
I have never had choux collapse completely while in the oven before, now I tried to make this two times and it was disastrous both times. I blamed it on opening the oven to take the small ring out, so for the second attempts I didn't bake them simultaneously. The small ring worked perfectly.
The big ring collapsed after about 25 minutes in the oven, without any interaction from me other than me turning the heat down.
Can’t someone address this? My choux experience is limited to basic cream puffs & profiteroles. I wonder if more heat at the beginning of the bake would set the crust better?
i watched this
Did anyone try using 2% milk instead of whole milk+water?
while saying “this is four whole eggs” video shows container holding five eggs
Good catch. Someone obviously made an error in the number of eggs.
@@kappadappa thanks!
I wonder if it is indeed four eggs. The egg on the far right in the measuring cup looks like it might be optically distorted by the glass and liquid whites to create the appearance of an extra yolk. But, I'm not 100% sure.
@@AD10894 Yes. It’s just an optical illusion for sure. Looks that way to me.
@Jeff, the God of Biscuits the wonky yolk on the left makes it look like six!
Thumbs up just for twisting the bag!
I think they should have used filberts instead of hazelnuts.
Aren’t they one & the same? Same nut, two names
How did people do the nut filling before food processors were a thing?
tons of chopping and maybe mortar and pestle or are they more clever methods?
A hand cranked food or nut mill will grind the nuts very fine. My original Betty Crocker cookbook has a recipe for almond paste that refers to using a food grinder. And before that in my White House Cookbook from 1884, they used a mortar and pestle.
@@marcilk7534 thanks for the insight, super fascinating how labor intensive these recipes once were.
Family in Seattle, they buy raw beans, have one machine that toasts those bean, grinds them, then brews the coffee. Me, I use Keurig cups.
Hello Donna
How are you doing? I have heard about such machines before but don't know how helpful that can be in trying to make good meals lol. It is always fun getting busy in the kitchen trying out new recipes and new tastes lol. I hope you are staying safe?
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video starts at 1:00
At 2:10 she says we have 4 eggs but there are clearly 5 yolks in there... they are going for 1 cup so they'll discard any extra but it comes out to almost exactly one cup.
Yeah - that's true. Another person posted it. There was obviously an error as to how many eggs.
So.... instead of arm day at the gym?
I think almost doing anything but arm day at the gym is a good thing.
Another great video by ATK. Two requests:
1. equipment test sieves
2. please start testing and developing recipes that are sugar free that taste as good as recipes that have sugar. Not all sugar-free sweeteners are created or taste equal.
My family and my son-in-law’s family are diabetic and it’s hard to stay away from carbs when ATK’s recipes are so good.
Maybe you could request recipes from your family who is diabetic. That seems an easier thing to do.
I recently purchased a burr grinder, I went for a more midrange cost as the one recommended here was far to expensive for me to justify it (Canadian pricing that is). I'm happy with the one I chose. HOWEVER!! one thing I need to recommend and stress for all grinders. Being that it's winter, my climate is very dry.... Whenever I need to buy a new grinder, I will NOT buy one with a plastic hoper or catch. The STATIC charge created with grinding is a nightmare! It sends grounds everywhere!! It's an absolute mess... I've since learned a trick about stirring a few drops of water into the beans prior to grinding them and it has made a dramatic difference. But overall, I think glass or even maybe a metal material would be a better choice in the future. So buyer beware, considering how dry it is where you live and maybe look at glass as an alternative. Or you may be spending your mornings sweeping your kitchen and counters....
Wow- another reason to choose glass. I was disappointed to hear Adam advocate plastic. Plastic is terrible on so many levels - 1. environmental is most important to me - plastic is a petroleum product and enormous warehouses full of plastic trash which can’t be used in any way (9% of your ‘recycled’ plastic is actually recycled), 2. Plastic scratches & looks terrible after a few washes, 3. The chemicals imparted to your food through gasses, or tiny bits scratched off. Come ON, ATK!
I want Lisa McManus back....
I think this is the fanciest thing they’ve ever made on this show…..
I made this.
It sucked.
French desserts are lame.
By comparison, the timeless dessert from Zimbabwe, Uhm Fufu, made with baboon livers, is absolutely delicious! Though, it might be difficult to find those livers in many places. But in South Africa, they are plentiful and inexpensive.
Dayum.
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Please marry me. This looks amazing
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Go away
@@elengariepy4686 I forgive you and will never quit sharing truth
@@ShepherdsChapelonYT lol it’s YOUR OPINION, not the truth. Hail Satan
@@elengariepy4686 I forgive you and will share truth all the more
Not sure I can trust a cook who mispronounces "praline."
Not the very best until Lan confirms.
Make it a Q yeah President Trump
OK......I gotta know......what the heck is that ending?????? I watch it after every episode and it has my imagination running wild. Not good!....lol!
When $100 is a "best buy" something is very, very wrong.
Things cost what they cost. Upgrading to grinding your coffee is purely optional and $100-140 is a nominal cost over years vs. how much it costs to consume coffee regularly, even home made.
@@TheGreektrojan Or one could just go with a $50 model that works just as well and use the $50-$90 you save to buy more delicious coffee. I own one of the "cheap" models they tested, have had it for 6 years, and it does a perfectly fine job of, wait for it... grinding coffee.
I'd love to know exactly what they think the $100 "best buy" does SO much better than the $50 model that it's worth spending twice as much.
But this is the typical ATK mentality: expensive is always better. Thing is, it's not. Not everyone wants to, or can, spend twice as much as they need to, and ATK doesn't really seem to get this. It's why I find all of their equipment and product reviews to be a total joke.
@@CaptainFabulous84 Chill out dude.
@@sandrah7512 Not sure the point you're trying to make. Which ones did they absolutely not recommend? The cheapest ones. Which got some level of recommendation? The most expensive. This is way all ATK reviews go. Expensive is always better, and the most expensive is almost always the "best".
While I can't read the actual reviews because I don't subscribe (and why would I since I know which is going to be the "best" before I even watch), I'm sure they ding the cheaper models for not having conical burrs (which in their own testing made no appreciable difference in taste), fewer grind settings (ya just need 1 that works for you), or some other nonsense that ultimately makes little difference in the end result, that is, ground coffee that tastes good. If you can't taste the difference between coffee ground on a $130 grinder versus a $30 grinder, why spend $130? So you can thump your chest knowing you have the "best" one? It's ridiculous.
the intro is too long
the camera should be on the food being prepared not the person talking
Why don't you send the show an email.
about 19 children in america died because they dont have the scraps that they threw in the trash
Then get off the internet and help these children by volunteering.