Fruit Tarts Without Mold

Yay! I just learn to make tart shells without mold. All you need is cupcake liners and something to cut the dough. I used a flower cookie cutter. Recipe for shell I used Cook Kafemaru. The shell tastes pretty good, light and buttery. The filling I just use my leftover diplomat cream. 

Make dough and roll out flat on plastic wrap. Refrigerator for 30 minutes. Cut dough out with desire cutter. Place on 2 cupcake liners. Refrigerate for 20 minutes before baking at 360F for 12-15 minutes.  Since after 12 minutes still not golden can turn on broil for about 2 minutes. 

Opera Cake

 I went to Paris a year ago with my sister and we tried some desserts there. I told my family I'll make some for them. Which I did baked some last year but never finish my list. On my list is the opera cake. Hihi...so after a year I'm in the mood to try to make it. It's not perfect but it tastes good and not overly sweet at all. 😋

I used Joconde's Baking recipe.

Croissant Tarts and Cronuts

I saw pictures of croissant tarts by Chef Antonio Bachour and it totally caught my attention! So beautifully done. I want to try but there is no recipe or instruction on how to create a shell out of croissant dough. So I just use one of the croissant dough and experiment.  I totally fail...😅 The shape and crispiness didn't look like picture at all. I only experiment on 4 shells. Instead of continuing with all tarts, I turned the rest of croissant dough into cronuts. Wow..so crispy and yummy with the mascarpone cremeux and lemon icing. Anyhow, experiment fail but we still love the tarts and cronuts.😋 

Pain Aux Raisins- Raisin Bread

 Have not bake these raisin bread for a long while and my raisins expiring soon. Making croissant dough is not easy and I kinda lost track during folding.😅 Anyhow...still turn out delicious!😋

Followed recipe from Bruno's Kitchen.  After 20 minutes baking still not golden enough so I took out the rings and bake until crispy on the outside yet still soft inside. Delicious!