re: #236 A Mom Anon

Good Evening Lizards 🦎
How is everyone? I brought coffee and all kinds of pastries 🥮 .☕️🍩.

I saw this in Serious Eats and it tempts me so much!

Paris-Brest (Pâte à Choux With Praline Crème Mousseline) Recipe

The Paris-Brest is a classic French pastry, featuring a crisp, almond-studded baked ring of pâte à choux that’s split in half horizontally, liberally filled with praline crème mousseline—a heady mixture of vanilla pastry cream, nutty praline paste, and whipped butter—and finished with a dusting of powdered sugar.

This bakery staple was created in 1910 by pastry chef Louis Durand, as an homage to the long-distance Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race (the pastry’s circular shape is meant to evoke that of a bicycle wheel). Pâtisserie Durand, which is still owned and operated by the Durand family, claims to have the original recipe, but fortunately this hasn’t prevented pastry chefs around the world from putting forth their own spins on the dessert.

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