Beyond the Set | Baker makes French pastries with Filipino twist
Beyond the Set | Baker makes French pastries with Filipino twist
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00:00With the Olympics happening right now in France, most people like myself, we can't go to Paris.
00:26So don't worry, I got you guys covered because we're bringing Paris here in Manila with my
00:30dream of flavors.
00:32So learn French cuisine, pastries, and culture right here with me.
00:37Meet Chef Chesca, a pastry chef based in Monte Carlo, France, who recently brought her love
00:42of French pastries to Manila.
00:45I'm so excited today for my segment.
00:47I'm here with Chef Chesca.
00:49She's going to teach me how to make French pastries.
00:51As a baker myself, a home baker, not professional, I know chef pastries are very hard to make.
00:57So we are going to learn why it's hard to make and how to do them.
01:02Today Chef Chesca is teaching me how to make eclairs.
01:06For the eclairs, you only need a few ingredients, flour, butter, and eggs.
01:12This is actually the most important part in doing eclairs or pâte à choux, the drying
01:19stage.
01:20And yeah, so you have to do it and then out of the fire, and then you really have to mix.
01:26You need your muscles here.
01:27Ah, okay.
01:28I could think right now.
01:29Yes.
01:30And then you really have to dry it out because you have to cook the starch in our flour.
01:37Inside the mixing bowl with the paddle attachment.
01:40So just dump it in?
01:42Ah, yeah.
01:43This is how it is.
01:45Okay.
01:46And then we're going to start to mix it.
01:50After we make the dough, we can start piping the eclairs and bake them.
02:04You guys think you can do this?
02:06Because it's kind of hard, but I think I'm good at it.
02:20Not only does Chef Chesca make authentic French pastries, she has some with a Filipino twist,
02:31and that's what you're seeing us make here with these calamansi eclairs.
02:36And for the finale, we decorate the eclairs.
02:39I took this opportunity to ask Chef Chesca a few questions as well.
02:43So tell me more about your French pastries with a Filipino twist.
02:47I'm so intrigued.
02:48So the usual is like a lemon, right?
02:51So I'm trying to fuse everything with the local market.
02:55So what we have here.
02:56So since we have calamansi here in the Philippines.
03:00How did you come up with Mon Rêve Paris?
03:03I've been in France for 10 years, and then I worked there.
03:06And it's really been a dream of mine to open up my own dream shop.
03:12I said, why not my dream, which is Mon Rêve in French.
03:16And then, people are having a hard time with Mon Rêve this summer.
03:21So I'm branding with Mon Rêve Paris.
03:23So it's basically my dream of Paris.
03:26We offer actually not just French pastries here in Mon Rêve.
03:30We actually offer different flavors around the globe.
03:35And now we've come to my favorite part of the segment where we actually get to try what I created.
03:41And today we made calamansi meringue eclairs.
03:45Just look how beautiful this is.
03:47And I'm actually going to eat it in front of you all.
03:52Oh my gosh.
03:55I have no words, guys.
03:56The calamansi, the asim goes perfectly with the creamy and sweet meringue.
04:02So delicious.
04:03This has been Monique Tuzon from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.