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Welcome To The Kitchen!

Welcome to the Paula’s Parisian Pastries Cooking School. The school was created in 2002 and teaches classes in all areas of cooking and baking, with an emphasis on French pastry and Jewish cooking. The school is unique in that in addition to scheduled classes throughout the year, I teach CUSTOM CLASSES to students OF ALL AGES where YOU DESIGN THE MENU.

My philosophy of baking is that it does not have to be difficult. I am a living testament to the French approach to desserts that you can eat anything in moderation and not be overweight (as long you exercise regularly!!). The goal is to create desserts that are so delicious that you are satisfied by one piece. Home baked desserts are so much healthier than packaged desserts and EASIER TO BAKE THAN YOU THINK.

Baking Tip Of The Month

Don't you sometimes get frustrated rolling out pie and cookie dough when the dough sticks to the rolling pin?  Then
you have to keep adding more flour which dries out the dough. Haven't you also been frustrated getting the dough into the pie plate or pan without the dough tearing??  The easy fix to all these problems is to roll the dough between TWO pieces of parchment or waxed paper.  Place the first sheet on your counter, add the dough and a little flour on top.  Next place the second sheet of parchment on top of the dough and roll the rolling pin ON TOP of the parchment paper. Every once in a while, peel back the top parchment and srpinkle A LITTLE flour all around before continuing to roll.   You can easily turn the bottom parchment in any direction to roll the dough evenly.  When the dough is the desired thickness, peel off the top layer and cut your cookies or for pies, reach your hand under the bottom parchment and turn the rolled dough into your pie pan and then peel off the parchment paper.  You can re-use
both pieces of parchment for rolling more cookies or use on top of your baking sheet when you bake the cookies or pie.

 

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