Daring Bakers: Danish Braid

Danish braid

One summer afternoon, Sara-Piperita goes to her usual Support Group: Anonymous Daring Bakers Challenged With Some Basic Preparation, ADBCWSBP (meetings every end of the month, day vary).
As usually, she meets with her fellow companions (some very skilled!!!), but this time is her turn to step in front of everybody and speak about the dreadful challenge of all…
“Hi, my name is Piperita and I’m puff pastry (and similar) challenged…”
A cheerful “Hi Piperita” comes from the audience…
Then she begin, tears dropping form her eyes, to tell her story…
“My problems with puff pastry began many years ago. Everybody love to make puff pastry. And many people told me that it is so simple that even a child can do it… I never could… I was always too hasty, or too afraid, or the room was too hot, or the pastry simply wouldn’t puff…
I tried many recipes, work it in many ways, but nothing: I simply couldn’t… It has always been one of the big flaws of my life…”
When she finishes, everybody stand up and begin to hug her… She feels sightly relived…
Then Kelly and Ben come up to the group and they begin to explain that they have the perfect recipe for Danish puff pastry. [Danish is slightly different form “normal” puff pastry, as it uses yeast to boost puffness…]
Piperita begins to cry again, mummling: “No, no, I possibly cannot… I even tried Nigella Lawson’s recipe for Danish, where she allegedly says it’s possible to make it with a mixer, with not so many turns and time, but even with that easy peasy recipe, I couldn’t!”
Kelly and Ben try to comfort her, to convince her to give a try…
She finnaly surronder…
Sara- Piperita gave a try to Kelly and Ben Danish pastry…
Sara-Piperita isn’t anymore afraid of Danish pastry or puff pastry!
Sara-Piperita succeded!!!
Now she can concentrate on the rest of her unberable flaws…

Viennoiseries

11 Comments

  1. comidademama

    I love Danish Pastry. I discover it living in USA. I stick to Rose Levy Beranbaum recipe, and the recipe from the book “Falling cloudberries”.
    The puff pastry is rather too fat, I get enough since the very first bite.
    I made it from scratch just because I have to try it once, it was lots of fun. I found a nice tutorial from two former Cordon Bleu&Pier Herme students.

    Today your shots are remarkably fine, did you use some lights?

    I’m about to come back to Italy, maybe we will see in the next GGD in Milan, I’d like to meet you in person, once.

  2. DaviMack

    Congratulations! Me, I’m blogging from Scotland, so I’m only just now working on mine!

  3. Dolores

    Looks to me like Kelly and Ben found the cure to your puff pastry woes. Congratulations… great job!

  4. Dharm

    Love your post! Congrats on conquering the challenge. Well Done!!!

  5. A World in a PAN

    When I lived in China, the big news was the opening of a Danish Pastry (1987) and we loved that (expensive) treat once in a while.
    Thanks to your recipe, now I can not only remember but make them.

  6. Jigginjessica

    I love your story in the beginning 🙂 It turned out great

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