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Emma Knowles

Choux pastry wreaths with a dipping sauce
Explainers

How to make a basic choux pastry

Overwhelmed by the idea of making a choux pastry dessert? This simple but delicious choux pastry recipe makes baking a Paris-Brest, ice-cream Beignets or a dark chocolate éclair much more manageable.
Six twisted buns, dusted with icing sugar, on a black background.
Dessert

Sweet cinnamon buns

There's nothing quite like the smell of baking to whet your appetite - and even more so when sweet spices like cinnamon and cardamom are involved.