For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

Dufour Pastry Kitchens, based in New York, is adored by home cooks for its frozen puff pastry sheets — it has won awards — with an incredibly buttery flavor and all-natural ingredients. After thawing, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A pastry chef will open a commercial French pastry kitchen next year in Orlando’s Packing District. La Maison Du Macaron has said the kitchen will use locally sourced ingredients to ...

Unless you’re a professional pastry chef, you probably make just a couple of pies a year — at most. As we head into peak pie-baking season, we talked to people who bake hundreds of pies each year, and ...

Creating and enjoying delicious and decadent pastries requires care and control throughout the baking process. You’ll also need the right tools, including an effective pastry cutter, which maintains ...