Here are full, easy-to-follow recipes for Apple Pie, Matcha Croissant, Donuts, and Éclair 🍎🥐🍩🍫
🥧 Apple Pie (Classic Homemade)
📝 Ingredients
For the crust (double crust):
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2½ cups (315g) all-purpose flour
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1 cup (226g) cold unsalted butter (cubed)
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1 tsp salt
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1 tbsp sugar
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6–8 tbsp ice water
For the filling:
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6–7 medium apples (Granny Smith or Honeycrisp)
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¾ cup sugar
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2 tbsp brown sugar
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2 tbsp flour or cornstarch
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1 tsp cinnamon
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¼ tsp nutmeg
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1 tbsp lemon juice
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1 tbsp butter
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Make the crust:
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Mix flour, salt, and sugar.
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Cut in cold butter until crumbly.
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Add ice water gradually until dough forms.
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Divide into 2 discs, wrap, chill 1 hour.
2️⃣ Make filling:
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Peel & slice apples.
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Toss with sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, and flour.
3️⃣ Assemble:
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Roll out first dough, place in pie pan.
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Add apple filling, dot with butter.
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Cover with second crust. Seal & cut slits.
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Brush with egg wash.
4️⃣ Bake:
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375°F (190°C) for 50–60 minutes
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Cool at least 2 hours before slicing.
🍵 Matcha Croissant (Japanese-style twist)
⚠️ Traditional croissants take time (laminated dough process).
📝 Ingredients
Dough:
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3 cups (375g) bread flour
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¼ cup sugar
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1 tbsp matcha powder
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1 tsp salt
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2¼ tsp instant yeast
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¾ cup warm milk
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2 tbsp butter (softened)
Butter block:
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1 cup (226g) cold unsalted butter
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Mix flour, sugar, matcha, salt, yeast.
2️⃣ Add milk & butter → knead 8–10 mins.
3️⃣ Chill 1 hour.
4️⃣ Flatten butter into square.
5️⃣ Roll dough, place butter inside, fold.
6️⃣ Roll & fold 3 times (chill 30 min between folds).
7️⃣ Roll thin, cut triangles, shape croissants.
8️⃣ Proof 1–2 hours.
9️⃣ Bake at 375°F (190°C) for 15–20 mins.
Optional: Fill with white chocolate or red bean paste.
🍩 Soft Glazed Donuts (Yeast Donuts)
📝 Ingredients
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3 cups flour
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2¼ tsp yeast
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¾ cup warm milk
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2 tbsp sugar
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1 egg
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2 tbsp butter
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½ tsp salt
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Oil for frying
Glaze:
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1½ cups powdered sugar
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3–4 tbsp milk
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½ tsp vanilla
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Mix warm milk + yeast + sugar (rest 5 mins).
2️⃣ Add egg, butter, salt, flour → knead 8 mins.
3️⃣ Rise 1 hour.
4️⃣ Roll ½ inch thick, cut donuts.
5️⃣ Rise 30–45 mins.
6️⃣ Fry at 350°F (175°C) 1 min per side.
7️⃣ Dip in glaze while warm.
🍫 Classic Éclair (French Pastry)
Made with choux pastry.
📝 Ingredients
Choux pastry:
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½ cup water
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½ cup milk
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½ cup butter
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1 cup flour
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4 eggs
Filling (Pastry cream):
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2 cups milk
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½ cup sugar
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4 egg yolks
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3 tbsp cornstarch
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1 tsp vanilla
Chocolate topping:
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½ cup chocolate
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¼ cup cream
👩🍳 Instructions
1️⃣ Choux pastry:
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Boil water, milk, butter.
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Add flour, stir until smooth ball forms.
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Cool slightly, beat in eggs one at a time.
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Pipe onto tray.
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Bake 375°F (190°C) 30–35 mins.
2️⃣ Pastry cream:
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Heat milk.
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Whisk yolks + sugar + cornstarch.
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Slowly add hot milk.
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Cook until thick.
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Cool completely.
3️⃣ Assemble:
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Fill shells with cream.
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Dip tops in chocolate ganache.
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Chill 30 mins before serving.
If you’d like, I can also give:
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💎 Bakery-style professional version
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🏠 Beginner simplified version
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🥗 Eggless / vegan versions
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📏 Small batch measurements
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🎂 Business costing version
Just tell me 😊