Cream puffs were a specialty of my mother's, and every year she prepared a huge amount to serve at her sorority's Alumni Style Show. I can remember looking at the trays of large puffed pastries with ...

Pate a choux is the stuff of magic in the kitchen. Pipe a soft, sticky dough onto a baking sheet and slide it into a hot oven. In mere minutes the dough puffs up -- practically exploding to double, ...