Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School

The chefs of the Le Cordon Bleu Institute present more than 100 pastry recipes, fully illustrated step-by-step, and reveals all its secrets to make you a real pastry chef

Le Cordon Bleu is the highly renowned, world famous cooking school noted for the quality of its culinary courses, aimed at beginners as well as confirmed or professional cooks. It is the world's largest hospitality education institution, with over 20 schools on five continents. Its educational focus is on hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The teaching teams are composed of specialists, chefs and pastry experts, most of them honored by national or international prizes. One of its most famous alumnae in the 1940s was Julia Child.

In Pastry School there are 100 illustrated recipes, explained step-by-step with 1400 photographs and presented in 6 chapters: Pastries, cakes and desserts; Individual cakes and plated desserts; Pies and tarts; Outstanding and festive desserts; Biscuits and cupcakes, Candies and delicacies, and finally the basics of pastry.

Discover a wealth of recipes:
-Great Classics known to everyone (madeleines, Black Forest Gateau, macarons, mille-feuilles);
-East-to-Make Family Recipes (cheesecake, financiers, hot vanilla souffl s, apricot tart, brownies);
-Innovative Creations (black currant and praline lollipops, matcha tea treats, aloe vera and wild strawberry desserts).

There are famous classics such as apple strudel, carrot cake, strawberry cakes, profiteroles... Simple family recipes including molten chocolate cake, cake with candied fruit, hot souffl with vanilla, Tart Tatin... Delicious and original desserts like yuzu with white chocolate, chocolate marshmallow and violet tartlet, cream cheese and cherry velvet, pistachio cristalline.

And at the end of the book there is a presentation of all the utensils and ingredients needed for baking and also a glossary explaining the specific culinary terms.

For each recipe, there is a picture of the final presentation and a tip from the chef to guide you.

This is THE book for pastry lovers everywhere, from beginner to the advanced level and is the official bible for the Cordon Bleu cooking schools around the world in Europe: Paris, London, Madrid, Istanbul; the Americas: Ottawa, Mexico, Peru; Oceania: Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney; and Asia: Tokyo, Kobe, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Shanghai, India, and Taiwan.