I love Caneles. My wife and I first gobbled the small and caramelly bunts while on a Paris vacation, years back. For the last several years we lived in Bangkok, Thailand, where we explored incredible cafes with superb cappuccinos, and, to my surprise, there were Caneles in many of the shops. Again we gobbled. Well, you can imagine my surprise to find them in Thailand. There, with each bite, we had the enjoyment of memories back to Paris. Now I'm in the US midwest where Caneles are not easy to find. This article takes me back to both Bangkok and Paris.
Awe....beeswax. Love this. And as someone with some skills in the kitchen who has never successfully made a popover, Yorkshire pudding, or Dutch baby pancake, i.e., anything with a crêpe-like batter that is supposed to puff, I can relate.
The problem with the caneles actually used to be that they'd puff too much and pull themselves out of the molds. Is your failure mode flatness or blowouts?
I love Caneles. My wife and I first gobbled the small and caramelly bunts while on a Paris vacation, years back. For the last several years we lived in Bangkok, Thailand, where we explored incredible cafes with superb cappuccinos, and, to my surprise, there were Caneles in many of the shops. Again we gobbled. Well, you can imagine my surprise to find them in Thailand. There, with each bite, we had the enjoyment of memories back to Paris. Now I'm in the US midwest where Caneles are not easy to find. This article takes me back to both Bangkok and Paris.
...Caneles, oh how I miss you...
Awe....beeswax. Love this. And as someone with some skills in the kitchen who has never successfully made a popover, Yorkshire pudding, or Dutch baby pancake, i.e., anything with a crêpe-like batter that is supposed to puff, I can relate.
The problem with the caneles actually used to be that they'd puff too much and pull themselves out of the molds. Is your failure mode flatness or blowouts?
These are greased with 50/50 beeswax/butter.
I see. Flatness is my problem.
Now I might need to explore these... I haven't done much of this in the past, popover type things do much better with convection, IIRC...