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Gourmet Pastries

Learn to make fermented doughs, including croissants, brioches, puff pastries and ensaimadas

Daniel Álvarez

Pastry chef, chocolatier, dough specialist, owner of Dalúa pastry shop, and member of Relais Desserts (Alicante, Spain)


Make croissants, brioches, ensaimadas and puff pastries with perfect flavor and texture

In this course, Daniel Álvarez, a renowned chef specializing in bakery and pastries, shares his knowledge, techniques and advice to enable you to make spectacular pastry creations with flavors and textures worthy of haute cuisine. This is a course where you can learn how to make high-quality doughs, and how to ferment, laminate, shape and bake them correctly. Discover and learn how to make coveted and delicious preparations, including inverted puff pastry.

Working with fermented doughs to execute these types of products requires great skill and delicacy. In this online course, chef Daniel Álvarez teaches you all the factors to take into account when preparing different types of sweet and savory doughs (brioche, croissants, puff pastry and ensaimada) and using them to develop derivative products of the highest quality.

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Course curriculum

What you'll learn

Fermented doughs; theory and practice

In this online course you will learn all the necessary theory about ingredients, including flours, yeasts, and types of butter. You will see how to correctly knead, laminate and bake fermented doughs.

Daniel Álvarez will teach you, from start to finish, how to make different sweet and savory pastry products using different doughs (brioche, croissants, puff pastry and ensaimada). You will discover specific products, such as the Bostock, and preparations as exclusive as inverted puff pastry, a variation of puff pastry that results in a unique flavor experience. Chef Daniel Álvarez, an expert in these techniques and products, will explain everything you need to take into account. He will teach you the importance of fillings, as well as the recipes for their preparation.

Who is it for?

This course is aimed at both professionals and foodies who love gastronomic quality and who want to master all the elements that influence work with fermented dough and pastries to achieve final products with outstanding texture and flavor.

What you’ll need

  • Stand mixer
  • Rolling pin
  • Laminator (optional)
  • Microplane grater
  • Dough cutters
  • Extendable ‘bicycle cutter’
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Keletso Molaotse

I learned a lot from this course, everything was perfect and understandable. Instructions are not complicated, easy to follow.

Love it!
Vanessa Yu

i learn the basics and the proper way of treating dough. Best lesson.

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Angeleduardo Machado

Estaba buscando cursos asi tan bueno y bien explicados. Ya suspendi la suscripcion de netflix jajaj esta pagina tiene la programacion que yo esperaba.

I love it
Claudia Suarez

I really like this course and the instructor is excellent!

i enjoy watching the video it's a good review for what I lear at Cooking school.
Maelle Martin

the text was great i learn a lot and love the recipe books

Daniel Álvarez is undoubtedly a master of pastries, due to the ingredients he works with, which are of the highest quality, as well as the techniques he uses, which he complements with originality, tradition and creativity.

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What's included?

  • 2h 25min HD video
  • 21 Lessons
  • 6 Recipes
  • Recipe Book (English, Spanish, French, German)
  • 5 Quizzes
  • Certificate
  • Español, English
  • English, Español, Italiano, Français, Deutsch, Português
Difficulty
  • Advanced

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Daniela Tamareo
Posted 1 week ago
Excelente !!!

Un profesor claro absolutamente y seguro, un pastelero estrella, se puede apreciar claramente el buen producto que a finalizado, Gracias

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Bernice Dornukwor Ayim
Posted 4 weeks ago
great insigt

corrected all my mistake within these minutes of demonstration . thank you scoolinary

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jaydengodwin62
Posted 1 month ago
Cold butter in my Brioche

This was helpful, to deeper understand why we do certain things in the process of makeing good doughs

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Pradeep Kurup
Posted 1 month ago
Dough temperature

I like everything.

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Angeleduardo Machado
Posted 3 months ago
Lo que estaba Buscando

Estaba buscando cursos asi tan bueno y bien explicados. Ya suspendi la suscripcion de netflix jajaj esta pagina tiene la programacion que yo esperaba.

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Keletso Molaotse
Posted 3 months ago
Pastry work

I learned a lot from this course, everything was perfect and understandable. Instructions are not complicated, easy to follow.

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vedant newatia
Posted 3 months ago
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Great

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ORESTIS TSOUVALAKIS
Posted 3 months ago
great course

mostly for professionals but still a great watch

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kalla2003
Posted 4 months ago
Easy to follow

This is a great course. The instructor does a great job of breaking down complicated processes into do-able steps. I can't wait to start making these recipes, especially the apple tart!

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Jeet Ram
Posted 4 months ago
Gurmet pastry

Thanks for sharing the recipe method for bakery dough needing lamination dough resting formation very very perfect guidance! Jeet Ram

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