Win Mother's Day With These 10 Recipes For Procrastinating Pastry Chefs

Mom-Approved Recipes For Your Busiest Brunch Service

May 6, 2016

Calling all procrastinating pastry chefs! Here are 10 mom-friendly recipes you can make with ingredients you already have in the walk-in and dry storage. Brace yourselves for brunch service, and don’t forget to take Monday off! 

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1. Chocolate Honey and Passion Fruit Gateau

A brownie made with intensely dark 73% Inti Couverture is a decadent base for creamy milk chocolate mousse, honey cremeux, and passion fruit gelée. Moms won’t be able to resist, even though all they really want is to spend time with the family.  

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2. Strawberry Mint Pâte de Fruit

For the mom who just wants a bite of dessert, trick out your cookie and candy plate with a new confection selection. The bright spring flavors of this pâte de fruit will leave them wanting more.

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3. Raspberry-Marmalade Crumb Bars

Make them now, stash in the freezer until Sunday morning, slice and serve in your pastry basket. BOOM! BRUNCHED.

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4. Vanilla Tasting Plate

Play with textures and temperatures in this plated dessert that is the answer to every dessert menu’s death by chocolate option. 

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5. Chocolate Caramel Tart

Speaking of death by chocolate, how about a stunningly beautiful chocolate tart? Moms will go nuts for those precious little daisies.

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6. Strawberry Tartlet

A pulled sugar décor, rose fragments, and decorative perle turn this simple strawberry tart into a special occasion dessert.

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7. Mini Cocoa Madeleines

You know what moms can resist? Forget about moms—you know what any human with taste buds and a nose can’t resist? Warm madeleines. Cocoa powder takes this tea service staple to the next level. 

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8. Orange-Thyme Sorbet

Keep dessert light with this refreshing sorbet. The sorbet base needs to chill for at least 6 hours before spinning, so don’t procrastinate too much!

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9. Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Cake

Creamy chocolate mousse, crisp hazelnut streusel, and tender hazelnut sponge make this plated dessert a not-too-heavy chocolate indulgence. Whip up the components and build and freeze the frame on Saturday, then slice and serve on Sunday with a quenelle of cream and luxurious gold leaf.

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10. Mango-Passion Fruit Toaster Pastries 

Can we all agree that these delectable little hand pies don’t belong on a stick? Regardless, you can’t lose with flaky pastry crust, sweet-tart marmalade, and a drizzle of frosting in your brunch bread basket.

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About the Author
Carolyn Crow is an experienced pastry chef and chocolatier who has traded in emulsifying ganaches for organizing events and tradeshows as AUI’s Event Manager. Even with a Culinary Institute of America Pastry Arts degree and a University of Maryland English Literature degree, Carolyn still believes the best dessert is a brownie sundae and the best book is anything with Harry Potter in it.