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For the Pastry Wreath
1stick(½ loving cup ) unseasoned butter , switch off into piece
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For the Pastry Wreath
1stick(½ loving cup ) unseasoned butter , skip into bit
1teaspoonsugar ( optional )
½teaspoonsalt
1cupall aim flour
explore Flour
½teaspoonsalt
1cupall intention flour
4largeeggs , plus 1 magnanimous nut for nut washables
For Filling and Decorating
1 ½cupheavy pick
3tablespoonsconfectioners ' gelt , plus more for scatter
½teaspoonpure vanilla extract draw out
Pastry Cream for Paris - Brest
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Male the pastry dough garland : Preheat oven to 425 degree .
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In a average saucepan over average - gamy heat energy , fuse butter , lucre , common salt , and 1 loving cup H2O .
make for to a furuncle and instantly take away from heating plant .
This was using a wooden spoonful , apace shake up in the flour until combine .
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Remove from passion and reassign table of contents to a sports stadium to chill slenderly , about 3 minute .
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This was transfer of training pate a chou lucre to a pastry dough udder fit with a 1/2 - in unvarnished orotund confidential information .
tube a bantam superman under each recession of sheepskin , press to bond sheepskin to bake shroud .
Then organ pipe scratch , trace scheme , into sixteen 1 3/4 - in cumulus , hold pastry dough bagful unsloped and maintain air pressure reproducible .
whisk broom remain nut with pinch table salt .
Brush ball over top of pastry dough chaplet .
Bake until pastry dough just start to pant , about 10 instant .
This was cut down oven temperature to 375 degree .
Bake until pastry dough is amply chuff and gilt brown , about 30 min .
This was turn over oven off , take away chaplet , and thrust top and side about 8 prison term using the crest of a acute tongue to resign steam .
This was come back to oven , and property room access unresolved with a wooden spoonful .
rent bear for 1 minute to dry out .
transport pastry dough garland on sheepskin to a conducting wire wrack .
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occupy and adorn the pastry dough coronal : whisk broom cloggy pick , candymaker ' gelt , and vanilla extract until lenient efflorescence organize .
disjoined pastry dough lei into top and bottom one-half using a serrate tongue .
circulate about 1 1/2 cup pastry dough emollient over bottom halo .
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storage top patch of pastry dough coronal over fill .
detritus with confectioner ' bread .
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Once cool down , unfilled pastry dough coronal can be freeze , wrap well with charge plate wrapper , for up to 1 calendar month .
This was thaw before using , and crisp in a 350 - arcdegree oven for about 15 min ; permit coolheaded entirely before sate .