Best Pastry Chefs 2012

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Each month, Tasting Table's Monthly Editions explores a single topic from a variety of delicious angles. Our February issue, Sugar, examines the ways that sweetness adds nuance to our eating and drinking, from cocktails to short ribs to, of course, dessert. And to kick things off, we've taken inspiration from pastry chefs, those beloved meal-ending masters. Click through the photo-essay below for our picks for Best Pastry Chefs 2012, along with their most delicious recipes.

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Comments

[Punks]

10:14 AM on 02/13/2012

Having spent some years in California both cooking in restaurants and eating my way across the Napa Valley, I am a consummate lover of creative rich yummy food. And pastry is on the very top of the list. Kudos to these wonderful chefs.

[dagny2222]

08:55 AM on 02/13/2012

I clicked a link to a recipe, and it brought me to a completely different recipe... Check your links, HuffPo!

[Alex Fidelibus]

07:27 AM on 02/13/2012

I like pie.

[AquaBuddha]

06:01 AM on 02/13/2012

Beet Cake With Goat's Milk Ice Cream... AGAIN?

[cyril10]

01:01 PM on 02/13/2012

It's the stems strewn all over the whatever-it-is that put me off. Who wants stems in your food?

[AquaBuddha]

02:34 PM on 02/13/2012

That's for the goats.

[ArChiMi]

02:32 AM on 02/11/2012

Going to Austin...

[Happy Kine]

06:27 PM on 02/09/2012

i was a pastry chef in a small French restaurant for a couple of years ages ago. it was very fun, but very stressful. i developed a love of Belgian beer and a distaste for chocolate.

[milomilano]

07:55 AM on 02/13/2012

A distaste for chocolate? How does that happen!

[biodieselvw]

01:31 PM on 02/09/2012

Yea for Heidi!

[Al Schrader]

10:39 AM on 02/09/2012

Something I've been working with are wafers. These were originally reserved for Kings and Queens.
They are made by putting wafer batter into a special wafer maker that is heated over the stove.
The result is this incredible thin crispy wafer with a decorative design cast right into it. Dipping them half into semi-sweet chocolate, well you get the idea...Alfie-

[Paintio]

11:55 AM on 02/13/2012

Do you ever make them savory?

[Al Schrader]

04:37 PM on 02/13/2012

Sounds tasty...Alfie-