French Pastries Made Bite-Sized with Sylvie Gruber

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What’s on the Menu:
Blueberry Almond Tartlets
Homemade Pâte Sablée

Croissants, profiteroles, crème brûlée, chocolate fondant cake: we love French desserts. But too often, the recipes for them produce enormous quantities and come with intimidating, complex instructions. It doesn’t have to be that way. Join guest chef Sylvie Gruber, author of the new cookbook “Bite-Sized French Pastries,” for a livestream class where you’ll learn a set of key techniques and ingredients that put classic French pastries well within reach—and produce quantities you actually want to eat. We start with one of the fundamentals of French pastry, a pâte sablée—which literally means “sandy crust”—that’s manages to be buttery but not greasy and delicate but not too sandy. Containing just four common ingredients, a pâte sablée is the start of countless French dishes, so you need to know how to whip up a good one. Sylvie will show you how to measure, mix and shape your crust like a pro, providing instructions as we go for miniature tartlets and for larger showstopper tarts. Our filling of the day also sounds fancy: Crème d'Amande, or almond cream. But our little secret is that almond cream also has just four ingredients, can be made ahead and is easy to riff on. We put it all together with some fresh fruit—Sylvie loves blueberries, but you can choose the berry or summer fruit of your liking—and a quick bake to produce a Blueberry Almond Tartlet that wouldn't look out of place in the display case of an upscale French bakery. Join us to make French baking more accessible, right-sized and fun.

About Sylvie: Sylvie Gruber is the creator of the blog A Baking Journey, where she shares tutorials and beginner pastry and dessert recipes for home bakers. She is certified in Classic French Pastry Training. Born in Belgium, Sylvie currently resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her family. “Bite-Sized French Pastries for Beginner Chefs” is her first cookbook.

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Bonus: All attendees of this class will receive a one-time 20% off coupon to the Milk Street Store after class.

This event has limited spots, and you must register in advance via Eventbrite. One sign-up covers one device. Closed Captioning is available for this event.

Immediately after registering, you will get a confirmation email that contains the Zoom meeting log-in information. One week prior to class (or within 48 hours of registering, if you sign up less than a week in advance), you will receive an email with the ingredients, equipment and prep you'll need to cook along with us, if you choose.

After class, you will receive a recording of the event, as well as a folder of recipes and resources that we discuss during the event. Class recordings are available to all registered attendees for two weeks following each event.

Payments for Milk Street live stream classes are non-refundable. If you find yourself unable to attend, you may transfer the ticket to someone else, but we are unable to refund fees and all payments are final. Classes are subject to cancellation at any time. In the case of cancellation by the event organizer, all paid tickets will be fully refunded.

Proceeds from live stream cooking classes support Milk Street's non-profit work with The Big Sisters Association of Great Boston, The Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester, and other partners.

If you have any questions about this class, please don't hesitate to get in touch via cookingschool@177milkstreet.com.