Decorative Shortcrust Pastry
Learn to make, fill and decorate beautifully detailed double-crusted pies using sweet shortcrust pastry.
Best-selling food writer and award-winning baker. Carlisle, UK
Bring your pie designs to life!
Chef Julie Jones, a renowned author of three specialist pastry books, showcases a variety of shortcrust pastry design techniques. From lattice patterns to intricate centerpieces featuring wild rose and feather designs, Julie will show you how to bring these designs to life and draw inspiration from them.
You will also learn the technical essentials of shortcrust pie-making, including how to make fillings with correct consistency and texture, ensuring that your pies look beautiful, taste delicious and maintain their structure.
At the end of this online course you will be able to:
- Know how to work with sweet shortcrust pastry.
- Get creative with your own pastry designs.
- Make decorative pies with crisp pastry and stable fillings.
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Course Syllabus
Course Content
Chapter 2 - Introduction to shortcrust pastry decoration
Chapter 3 - Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Chapter 4 - Fillings
Chapter 5 - Triangle Lattice
Chapter 6 - Double Lattice
Chapter 7 - Parquet Design
Chapter 8 - Template Design (Wild Rose)
Chapter 9 - Feather Design
Chapter 10 - Basket Design
Learn to perfect six visually appealing pie designs, emphasizing the importance of neatness and precision.
What you'll learn
Learn to build eye-catching designs following a very detailed step-by-step explanation.
Shortcrust Pastry: Learn to make sweet, short, crisp pastry. The sandy texture is key, and icing sugar is added for a smooth finish. This will be the base recipe used to create all of the pie designs within the course.
Rhubarb and Raspberry Filling: Learn the technique to create pie fillings that maximize flavor and perfect consistency and texture, to ensure that your decorative pies maintain their structure.
Triangle Lattice Design: Craft a triangular lattice design using pastry strips. Discover a simple hack to transform a simple lattice into an eye-catching triangle design.
Double Lattice Design: Learn to layer and weave fine pastry strips, which can be made using a fettuccine machine, or cut by hand.
Parquet Design: Intricately lay tiny pastry tiles in a stunning herringbone pattern, adding decorative elements such as leaves and pastry roses to personalize your design. This design highlights the use of pastry cutters and the importance of accurate measurements.
Dog Rose Template Design: Learn to build a design using a template and with this technique you can be free to create unlimited template designs of your own. See how Julie uses fine spaghetti strands to enhance key details.
Feather Template Design: Create a lifelike feather design using pastry spaghetti strands. Learn to enhance your finishes with edible decorations and powders.
Basket Design: Learn to recreate one of Julie’s signature designs. Work with spirals and enhance the design with decorative elements such as flower petals and leaves.
In addition to the recipes, you will also learn a variety of techniques that will be useful on many occasions.
The techniques you will learn are:
- How to make sweet shortcrust pastry
- How to roll and cut pastry with a pasta machine
- How to blind bake pastry
- How to make fruit pie fillings
- How to seal pies correctly
- How to bake decorative pies correctly
- Decorative techniques with pastry
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Meet your Instructor
Best-selling food writer and award-winning baker. Carlisle, UK
Winner of the 2008 Nestle Toque d’Or, judge and best-selling food writer, renowned for her decorative bakes, and mindful approach.
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very fun and inspiring class
while watching through chapters, I crave to just start doing any pie