Watch this pastry chef attempt a gourmet take on the classic Cheez-It

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Pastry chef Claire Saffitz is back at it again with some intense dedication to extremely detailed junk food recreation. 

On this episode of the YouTube series Gourmet Makes from Bon Appétit, Saffitz takes on the classic cheesy snack — Cheez-It. She can tell from the beginning that they will have to be baked, and sets out on a quest to get that iconic texture just right. 

To get those very crispy layers, she uses a technique called “lamination” with butter, which produces a flakiness similar to the layers of a croissant. 

However, it’s a struggle. Several people assist her in the math portion of calculating what size the dough will bake to and how much it shrinks in the oven. “How many college degrees did that take?” she remarks.  Read more…

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Making gourmet Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups is harder than you think

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Bon Appetit is back, and this time, Claire Saffitz is going a little nutty over Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. 

Saffitz decides to take on the beloved candy, figuring out not only how to make it from scratch, but to make it gourmet. 

The OG Reese’s, as she describes it, is almost “an assault of sugar.” But the pastry chef is deflated when she realizes that to achieve maximum gourmet, it’s suggested by multiple people that she temper the chocolate and make her own peanut butter from scratch.

For the base of the peanut butter filling, she draws inspiration from a Halvah recipe (a Middle-Eastern candy made from sesame paste) using peanuts to get that fluffy texture.n She freezes the peanut butter circles, melts milk chocolate, and then attempts the ultimate challenge — achieving the signature smooth top. Read more…

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