Mon Cher Eclair And Other Beautiful Pastries, including Cream Puffs, Profiteroles, and Gougeres

Taking the love of French pastries into the kitchen, Mon Cher Éclair shows how rewarding it is to make these delectable treats at home. Using just a couple of simple techniques, home cooks can easily master the basic recipe for pâte à choux dough and use it to make beautiful éclairs with modern flavor combinations such as butterscotch-bourbon or Meyer lemon cream. The dough is also the base for an array of profiteroles and cream puffs, which make great appetizers and desserts. With more than 40 recipes ranging from traditional to trendy, savory to sweet, rustic to artistic, this small cookbook will make home cooks look like a very big deal.

Charity Ferreira is a food writer and recipe developer. She lives in Oakland, California.

Joseph De Leo is a San Francisco–based photographer.