🥛🍫✨ Explore the science of dairy while mastering the elegant techniques behind homemade éclairs and pastry cream!

Students will learn:✅ The role of dairy products in baking and pastry arts✅ Differences between milk, cream, butter, and other dairy ingredients✅ How to prepare classic pâte à choux dough for éclairs✅ Techniques for making smooth pastry cream fillings✅ How to create rich chocolate ganache and professional pastry finishes✅ The science of steam, structure, and texture in baked pastries

Students gain hands-on experience creating bakery-style éclairs while learning how dairy ingredients contribute flavor, texture, and structure to desserts.

Perfect for Culinary Arts, FCS, homeschool programs, life skills classes, baking units, pastry arts courses, and food science lessons.

✨ Includes editable Google Slides, printable worksheets, attendance questions, cooking show viewing questions, interactive activities, dairy science lessons, and hands-on culinary labs.

👩‍🍳 Classroom-tested with 150+ teen chefs and designed to combine pastry skills, dairy science, baking techniques, and real-world culinary applications in one engaging unit.