I am French, I studied in Bordeaux back when no one outside of Bordeaux knew of canelés. This is a perfect recipe, they look really perfect. One small note, as Claire said, rest time is essential, 12h is a minimum. it does make a world of difference
Something I appreciate about Claire Saffitz is that she manages to explain why recipes can fail and has simple solutions for those failing points. I have been working on my canele recipe for about 2 years now and would have consistently inconsistent batches. Something I never thought about was that reincorporating the batter prior to baking can incorporate air, which can cause the canele to balloon out of the molds. I would typically shake the batter vigorously before pouring it into the molds, but after watching this video I decided to hold off on that one step and instead used a spoon as Claire described. Immediately I noticed a difference. The batter didn't balloon at all for any of the 11 canele. This was my most consistent batch ever (minus one single canele that had a white top). I will definitely be buying her next book whenever that comes out!
My husband and I have made this recipe at least 5 times now with different flavor variations like adding orange zest, cardamom, or subbing rum for bourbon. We use nice french silicone molds and they always come out INCREDIBLE. My suggestion for adding citrus zest: rub the zest into the sugar with your fingers before adding the other ingredients to release the oils. For silicone molds, you need to bake at a higher temp, maybe 25-50F hotter, compared to copper molds. I skip the step that Claire does where she skims off the top portion of the batter after it's been rested overnight. All the vanilla bean bits tend to rise to the top so I just mix that layer back into the rest of the batter so I don't waste any of the vanilla bean. It totally bakes fine and results in a higher yield.
Hi ! French from Bordeaux here 🖐!! Canelés are one of my fav', perfect with coffee. Usually when buying some people ask for their preferred texture. I usually like them well done but my parents like their canelés lighter in colour. Thanks for sharing this delicious pastry to the world.
I may have had caneles in the past but I really can't recall. However, I was in Japan middle of last year and my wife and I found ourselves in a NY-style pastry cafe in Tokyo for brunch, our first meal of the day. I would have found a stone delicious as I was so hungry. As someone with a weakness for plain donuts, the moment I saw my first canele (in this cafe, the caneles looked like bracelets with big beads so they looked like ring doughnuts), my curiosity got the better of me. I got one for each of us. As usual, I got a black coffee as that's my preferred drink with doughnuts. The moment I sank my teeth into the canele, I was addicted. That moment, alternating between a bite of the canele and a sip of a nice warm black coffee, was an epiphany. I'm now here watching this video (and 5 other videos just before this) to learn to make it myself because this humble Bordeaux pastry is going to be a permanent part of my life from now. So, yes, you hit the nail on the head....canele and coffee is a bit of an enlightenment.
Ah, Canelés, this takes me back when I used to work in a French macaron café in Budapest. We baked them every morning, sometimes two batches, as people went crazy for it. Not sure if the ratio of butter and beeswax matters, but we did have a hard time to get them out sometimes. Or it could've been the thickness of the coating as everyone did it a bit differently.... We rarely had any leftovers, but when we did I took them home for my mom who fell in love with them. I might have to invest in some molds. :)
@pierrethemonkey was it Chez Dodo? I am a canelé fiend and ate them all over France when I lived in Germany. Chez Dodo’s were seriously top 2 of all the canelé I’ve ever eaten. My daughter and I visited Budapest twice and fell in love with the place. We wandered around the corner from the Basilica and saw that place, it was one of the best random finds of all our European travels.
I never EVER write comments… but I’m in Marseille for work, and today at tea time they brought these! I had no idea what they were but they were delicious…. And 8 hours later I see this video. Spooky! Plus I thought I tasted the rum .. thanks Claire!!
I had these for the first time about a year ago--but the local bakery that made them stopped! I was blown away by the slightly crisp, deeply caramelized exterior and the lovely cakey, eggy interior. I don't bake often, but might have to learn to make these.
I was having a very bad week in terms of my mental health, but my Claire fix every Thursday is always so uplifting. I can be having the worst day ever and just having Claire on the background being the most awesome human ever makes my day better. Never fails 💙
I just made these for the first time (not the last)- one piece of advice is to line your sheet pan with foil. The butter/wax mixture boiled over onto the sheet pan and I'm doing my best to keep butter/wax shrapnel from going down my drain! Thanks for another great recipe and video Claire!
I saw these at my local pastry place last Friday. I bought one, ate it and immediately had to buy a second which was promptly eaten too. They were absolutely divine, I can’t believe I’d never tried them before!
Pound for pound, they are the most delicious pastry there is. Very unassuming because of their size and they often just don't look impressive if they amongst colourful and more extravagant looking cakes and pastries, but if you get one fresh, the combination of the caramelised crispy shell and soft, pillowy custard inside will stay with you.
Canelés have started popping up a little all over my city since this summer! I don’t know if it’s just one person who distributes batches to a bunch of different stores/cafés but either way I’m happy, these really are delicious 😋
There is a bakery in my city I know I have seen these before but I never knew what they were so I haven't tried! I will scoop one up next time I go! Maybe I will go during lunch tomorrow!
Claire you are a noteworthy teacher. I love that you said head space when referring to space for the batter to rise. I had just finished using Headspace before watching, lol. Thanks for helping me ID another fantastic treat to try! We are all waiting patiently as possible for your book, too! So excited :)
I’ve never tried a canelé but now I will keep my eye out for them, these look delicious! Also, I really hope this becomes a technical challenge on the Great British Bake-off 😁
So excited to see this video! It never occurred to me these pastries could be made at home. I remember canelés fondly from my college days in France. I'm unclear as to how the process would be different using silicone molds. The copper molds I found online are very expensive! But it would definitely be worth the experiment to try my hand at baking these using a silicone mold.
silicone is a worse conductor than copper, therefore the silicone holds will impart less of a heat shock onto the canelés, so they will have less of a crunchy, caramelised crust :)
This video is exceptional in the clarity of instructions. Not only was this my first time baking canelés but also my first time baking anything. And dare I say mine came out even better than Claire's. Great video!
Woo, woo! I’ve got vanilla beans, rum, eggs, beeswax, and new copper molds just came in the mail!!! I tried making these a couple of years ago in silicon molds & didn’t think they were worth the effort. Will try again now that I have proper molds and Claire’s instructions. Thank you, Claire!
This looks delicious! Claire really inspired me to start baking. I’ve make her croissants, danishes, and more! I agree with Claire that danishes are best eaten the day of and fresh out of the oven!
I'm not even 5 minutes in and I can already tell that Claire genuinely ADORES this recipe. There's a different sparkle in her eye and she hasn't even started baking yet! I guess I have to buy some canelé molds somewhere. But in the meantime, if anyone knows a French bakery in NYC that makes these, lmk!
Such a great video. I wonder if anyone who has baked these has noticed a green color to beeswax that drips from the molds during cooking? The molds I'm using are supposed to be tin lined copper, and they're not magnetic, but I have not seen the coloring mentioned anywhere and I'm wondering if it's common, or something to be concerned about?
Yesss - it’s about time canelés get the credit they deserve! They’re not overly common here in Australia but that makes me even more excited when I find them! They’re like these little rare gems that are so delicious and have such an awesome texture contrast. Thank you, Claire!!
Hello from my small village of Gensac, about an hour from Bordeaux. I love popping by the shops that sell them. They have so many sizes! Last Friday my village had its annual auberge espagnole (potluck) and my neighbor had a platter of small ones…but it was apéro and not dessert. She had made savory ones with chorizo! They were delicious!
Story goes that in the wine making region of Bordeaux, vineyards use egg whites to remove particles from the wine, leaving them with a lot of egg yolks. Bordeaux was also a huge port, bringing in exotic goods such as rum and vanilla from their colonies, thus giving you the building blocks of a canelé...
I'm from Bordeaux and I have to say, the copper molds REALLY make a difference compared to silicone molds. Every time I made them using a silicone mold they came out soft and not crunchy at all on the outside, so now I only use copper ones.
I was first introduced to this pastry from Emmymade when she tried to make it and I’ve never seen it before! It was only until I went to CDMX that I found these for soooo cheap. It was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten and I had to go back for more the next day.
just passed through Paris this morning and bought myself one of these for breakfast which i would have never paid any attention to if it werent for this video. it was delicious indeed!
Thanks for this video. I discovered caneles in Paris many years ago. They are not common in bakeries in the US, but lucky for me a Saturday Farmer's Market near me has a San Francisco bakery that sells them. They are a little bit of heaven for the weekend.
I love all of these videos, they literally get me through the rest of the week! Also the anticipation I feel every taste test waiting to see if we get another "MMM" is so good!
Make these often. My family loves them. I had an uncle with cancer and he was losing his ability to eat solid foods. He asked me to make these for him. I drove 2 hours in horrible traffic to deliver to him one of his absolute fav foods. One of the last things he would ever eat. 😢
Never had or even seen these before. But they looked so good I wanted to try them. Drove by a French bakery randomly while far from home and there they were! I ate them as I drove home and they were amazing. Thank you for showcasing them and inspiring us all to try something new! Delicious
I was so incredibly excited when I saw that you uploaded a video on how to make Canelés - they are my uncontested favourites when it comes to French bakery, and I'm so lucky there's a place in my town where I can get them. So to anyone who's never had them - GET THEM OR MAKE THEM for the love of god, these little things might not look like much but they are heavenly.
My son came back from Copenhagen and proclaimed he found his new favorite dessert, canelés. Since then I’ve baked several dozen, more than 100, in batches of 8. I should really shell out for more copper molds.
I feel lucky there are at least 3 bakeries that have these regularly. My friend from France introduced me when she was living here. I hope to go to France in 2023 and will try to get the authentic molds. I always have beeswax around for making things so that won't be a problem. Can't wait to try these. Oh and I'm going to make them gluten free. That will be a risky experiment but successful I hope.
Stunning! I think they rise out of the molds while baking because there's a water component to butter that evaporates and makes a bubble underneath the pastry. With such an intricate mold and a pastry that then fits perfectly inside, it makes sense to me that the bubble pushes the pastry up just enough to break the seal so gas can escape - hence the rise. Obviously there's always a little air in the batter no matter what that will expand and contract with temperature, but if the pastries are able to settle back down, it means it's not pure expansion of the batter that results in the pastry over-topping the mold. I wonder if using oil or clarified butter or ghee instead of regular butter would help with this?
there’s a bakery that does incredible caneles,,,and creme brulees,, and madeleines,,,it’s a shame it’s kinda far from my place, but seeing the process makes me appreciate them so much more,,,
Canelés are my favorite pastry in the world. The custard interior and crunchy outside are so delicious. But it's a little expensive to make good canelés. I only know one single bakery in my city that makes vanilla and Earl Grey canelés. I'd have to make an effort to go there, but so worth it.
YAY canelés are getting the love and attention they deserve! Claire yours are perfect and I want to bake them again. Well worth the time and effort. They're so boozy and fragrant with the perfect level of caramelized sweetness.
I love caneles but have only made them with silicone molds. Been scared about the copper molds but it seems reasonably manageable to make using the techniques you shared. Thanks!
Great video! I had caneles once from a farmer's market in Chicago, which was the first and last time I had seen them until this video. I'm so glad to finally be reminded what they are called so I can search them out with more efficiency (and maybe even bake them myself?!)
I’ve wanted to make these for years. First, I was pronouncing them wrong, second, I didn’t know about the beeswax coating, and third, I didn’t realize the batter needed to rest for so long. I think I have all the tips to try and make them successfully now. We’ll see… 💗
Yesss, I first had a canele a few years back in a fancy restaurant with my parents and found a cafe last year that had them. I would always get the orange oil ones and a espresso macchiato: THE BEST. Its creamy, sweet, bitter
Hi there, Canelés always look so intriguing !! I can imagine the wonderful flavour, the richness of the rum and vanilla. Quite a few techniques to use here, following the preparation of the moulds will make you a winner and needless to say the oven temperature!! You wish to bake something out of the ordinary, take time and follow instructions. Have a happy day - after eating canelés!!
The combination of the crunchy carmelized exterior matched with a custary soft, tender center is reminiscent of a kouign amann pastry- which is definitely a good thing! I will definitely be looking for these at my local bakery and maybe even making some myself.
A few years ago I decided to try making these after trying one in a local shop and then seeing some friends in Europe share photos of the ones they made at home. I've made them four times - the first two as traditional canelés, the third as a matcha version (very nice) and the most recent as a cherry/dragon fruit version. The first three were perfect. I let them rest long enough. This last batch I made I only let rest a couple of hours and used too much egg white, so they puffed up too much, but they were still straight. I'll go back to letting the batter rest overnight and using just yolks (although usually one egg white doesn't hurt), since I added a bit more egg than I should have anyway. BTW, I use a Chefmade canelé pan and it works perfectly, and even this last batch tasted amazing.
I first saw these at the Union Sq Farmers Market in NYC and have been trying to make these since. Every other one I have tried has been dry and sad... THANKS! Looking forward to trying your recipe.
Claire, I absolutely love your videos and they're definitely the highlight of my Thursdays! I was wondering if you could add CC to your videos for people like me that enjoy following along with captions. :)
I did a side by side test of silicone versus metal canale molds a few years ago and quickly learned that you do not get the correct browning with silicone. Worth spending a bit more for that caramelization. Yum
Caneles are my favourite pastry by far! Made them countless times. For me one of the key moments was not to overheat milk/butter mixture and don't let it boil - 80C or 180F is the go to. When I had it boiling batter cooked like a choux pastry with huge air pockets inside. And NEVER use rum extract, always use good rum, the difference is night and day! I've tried it once and the flavour of rum extract is so noticeable, that now I can smell it without tasting if a pastry shop used it instead of a rum lol. Pale bottoms is a constant checkbox of improvement, it depends on your moulds and exact temperature profile of your oven hugely, so be ready to develop your own baking routine for them. But my God they worth it!
I looooove caneles. The Night Oven bakery in saskatoon always has them and I buy one (or three) every time I shop there. Sometimes I just go for the caneles. The texture is amazing.
I love canelés! I even found a gluten free canelé maker in Bordeaux and so got to enjoy them for the first time in forever. It’s such a special dessert, unlike anything else I’ve tried.
Wow, amazing timing for this video. We're in Bordeaux this week eating lots and lots of canelés ! It's a new favorite we discovered, and we enjoyed watching you make them, Claire. Thanks!
Ina Garten Moment- "if you don't have copper Caneles molds from the original bakery in Bordeaux, silicone is fine" 🤣 love you Claire
Every week I still forget that Thursdays are for Claire and desserts! I always feel so uplifted every time I see the thumbnail and go “oh YES”
oh yes!
Oh, yes, me too! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
same
Mmm
I seriously love how all of Claire's pastries are her favorite. It's so refreshing to see someone passionate about what they create!!!!!
It makes me giddy seeing her giddy about food.
For Claire to choose just one to be her favorite would be like choosing a favorite kid.
Except for donuts I guess
My mom said that every time she made a great meal. Everything was her favorite ❤️
I am French, I studied in Bordeaux back when no one outside of Bordeaux knew of canelés.
This is a perfect recipe, they look really perfect.
One small note, as Claire said, rest time is essential, 12h is a minimum. it does make a world of difference
48 hours is best.
can you freeze them?
Why does it need that rest, as opposed to say, pancake batter, which one would cook right away?
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 Flavor development
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 also, it is actually recommended to rest pancake batter to ensure the gluten relaxes and the flour can hydrate with less mixing
Something I appreciate about Claire Saffitz is that she manages to explain why recipes can fail and has simple solutions for those failing points. I have been working on my canele recipe for about 2 years now and would have consistently inconsistent batches. Something I never thought about was that reincorporating the batter prior to baking can incorporate air, which can cause the canele to balloon out of the molds. I would typically shake the batter vigorously before pouring it into the molds, but after watching this video I decided to hold off on that one step and instead used a spoon as Claire described.
Immediately I noticed a difference. The batter didn't balloon at all for any of the 11 canele. This was my most consistent batch ever (minus one single canele that had a white top). I will definitely be buying her next book whenever that comes out!
My husband and I have made this recipe at least 5 times now with different flavor variations like adding orange zest, cardamom, or subbing rum for bourbon. We use nice french silicone molds and they always come out INCREDIBLE.
My suggestion for adding citrus zest: rub the zest into the sugar with your fingers before adding the other ingredients to release the oils. For silicone molds, you need to bake at a higher temp, maybe 25-50F hotter, compared to copper molds.
I skip the step that Claire does where she skims off the top portion of the batter after it's been rested overnight. All the vanilla bean bits tend to rise to the top so I just mix that layer back into the rest of the batter so I don't waste any of the vanilla bean. It totally bakes fine and results in a higher yield.
Do you do the pre-bake with the silicone molds that Claire does with the copper ones so the canalés don't stick?
@@birchiebaby No need to! No prep or preheating needed for the silicone molds. Just pour the batter in and stick into the oven.
As someone from Bordeaux, yep, canelés are the best pastry ever made
Hi ! French from Bordeaux here 🖐!! Canelés are one of my fav', perfect with coffee. Usually when buying some people ask for their preferred texture. I usually like them well done but my parents like their canelés lighter in colour. Thanks for sharing this delicious pastry to the world.
I may have had caneles in the past but I really can't recall. However, I was in Japan middle of last year and my wife and I found ourselves in a NY-style pastry cafe in Tokyo for brunch, our first meal of the day. I would have found a stone delicious as I was so hungry. As someone with a weakness for plain donuts, the moment I saw my first canele (in this cafe, the caneles looked like bracelets with big beads so they looked like ring doughnuts), my curiosity got the better of me. I got one for each of us. As usual, I got a black coffee as that's my preferred drink with doughnuts. The moment I sank my teeth into the canele, I was addicted. That moment, alternating between a bite of the canele and a sip of a nice warm black coffee, was an epiphany. I'm now here watching this video (and 5 other videos just before this) to learn to make it myself because this humble Bordeaux pastry is going to be a permanent part of my life from now. So, yes, you hit the nail on the head....canele and coffee is a bit of an enlightenment.
Ah, Canelés, this takes me back when I used to work in a French macaron café in Budapest. We baked them every morning, sometimes two batches, as people went crazy for it. Not sure if the ratio of butter and beeswax matters, but we did have a hard time to get them out sometimes. Or it could've been the thickness of the coating as everyone did it a bit differently.... We rarely had any leftovers, but when we did I took them home for my mom who fell in love with them. I might have to invest in some molds. :)
@pierrethemonkey was it Chez Dodo? I am a canelé fiend and ate them all over France when I lived in Germany. Chez Dodo’s were seriously top 2 of all the canelé I’ve ever eaten. My daughter and I visited Budapest twice and fell in love with the place. We wandered around the corner from the Basilica and saw that place, it was one of the best random finds of all our European travels.
What's that café called? Is it the A table! chain of bakeries, perhaps?
Bringing home caneles to your mom is the best substitute for a rose!
I never EVER write comments… but I’m in Marseille for work, and today at tea time they brought these! I had no idea what they were but they were delicious…. And 8 hours later I see this video. Spooky! Plus I thought I tasted the rum .. thanks Claire!!
I had these for the first time about a year ago--but the local bakery that made them stopped!
I was blown away by the slightly crisp, deeply caramelized exterior and the lovely cakey, eggy interior.
I don't bake often, but might have to learn to make these.
Dessert person brings all the good things in the world together. Claire, cats, and baking. It just really makes my day!!!!
I was having a very bad week in terms of my mental health, but my Claire fix every Thursday is always so uplifting. I can be having the worst day ever and just having Claire on the background being the most awesome human ever makes my day better. Never fails 💙
They kinda look like miniature bunt cakes. So cute!
These are some of my FAVORITE deserts! We had these, and ferero richer croquembouche for our wedding treats!
I just made these for the first time (not the last)- one piece of advice is to line your sheet pan with foil. The butter/wax mixture boiled over onto the sheet pan and I'm doing my best to keep butter/wax shrapnel from going down my drain! Thanks for another great recipe and video Claire!
I saw these at my local pastry place last Friday. I bought one, ate it and immediately had to buy a second which was promptly eaten too. They were absolutely divine, I can’t believe I’d never tried them before!
Pound for pound, they are the most delicious pastry there is. Very unassuming because of their size and they often just don't look impressive if they amongst colourful and more extravagant looking cakes and pastries, but if you get one fresh, the combination of the caramelised crispy shell and soft, pillowy custard inside will stay with you.
Canelés have started popping up a little all over my city since this summer! I don’t know if it’s just one person who distributes batches to a bunch of different stores/cafés but either way I’m happy, these really are delicious 😋
There is a bakery in my city I know I have seen these before but I never knew what they were so I haven't tried! I will scoop one up next time I go! Maybe I will go during lunch tomorrow!
Did you go? Did you love them?
Claire you are a noteworthy teacher. I love that you said head space when referring to space for the batter to rise. I had just finished using Headspace before watching, lol. Thanks for helping me ID another fantastic treat to try! We are all waiting patiently as possible for your book, too! So excited :)
I’ve never tried a canelé but now I will keep my eye out for them, these look delicious! Also, I really hope this becomes a technical challenge on the Great British Bake-off 😁
I can only agree... partly lived in france for three years and this is exactly what I will miss. Cannelé is such a perfect dessert....
The faux Bake-Off music during the oven-watching was perfect.
Canelés are my literal favourite and I was low-key hoping Claire would have a recipe for it. Very stoked 😊
So excited to see this video! It never occurred to me these pastries could be made at home. I remember canelés fondly from my college days in France. I'm unclear as to how the process would be different using silicone molds. The copper molds I found online are very expensive! But it would definitely be worth the experiment to try my hand at baking these using a silicone mold.
silicone is a worse conductor than copper, therefore the silicone holds will impart less of a heat shock onto the canelés, so they will have less of a crunchy, caramelised crust :)
This video is exceptional in the clarity of instructions. Not only was this my first time baking canelés but also my first time baking anything. And dare I say mine came out even better than Claire's. Great video!
Woo, woo! I’ve got vanilla beans, rum, eggs, beeswax, and new copper molds just came in the mail!!! I tried making these a couple of years ago in silicon molds & didn’t think they were worth the effort. Will try again now that I have proper molds and Claire’s instructions. Thank you, Claire!
This looks delicious! Claire really inspired me to start baking. I’ve make her croissants, danishes, and more! I agree with Claire that danishes are best eaten the day of and fresh out of the oven!
I bought vanilla beans yesterday without a specific recipe in mind, but I knew I could use them for one of Claire's recipes.
I'm not even 5 minutes in and I can already tell that Claire genuinely ADORES this recipe. There's a different sparkle in her eye and she hasn't even started baking yet! I guess I have to buy some canelé molds somewhere. But in the meantime, if anyone knows a French bakery in NYC that makes these, lmk!
Madeleine's in the UES sells them! Great croissants there too
Such a great video. I wonder if anyone who has baked these has noticed a green color to beeswax that drips from the molds during cooking? The molds I'm using are supposed to be tin lined copper, and they're not magnetic, but I have not seen the coloring mentioned anywhere and I'm wondering if it's common, or something to be concerned about?
Yesss - it’s about time canelés get the credit they deserve! They’re not overly common here in Australia but that makes me even more excited when I find them!
They’re like these little rare gems that are so delicious and have such an awesome texture contrast. Thank you, Claire!!
Hello from my small village of Gensac, about an hour from Bordeaux. I love popping by the shops that sell them. They have so many sizes! Last Friday my village had its annual auberge espagnole (potluck) and my neighbor had a platter of small ones…but it was apéro and not dessert. She had made savory ones with chorizo! They were delicious!
A fascinating and unique recipe...one wonders how it developed. A courageous episode; thank you.
Story goes that in the wine making region of Bordeaux, vineyards use egg whites to remove particles from the wine, leaving them with a lot of egg yolks. Bordeaux was also a huge port, bringing in exotic goods such as rum and vanilla from their colonies, thus giving you the building blocks of a canelé...
I'm from Bordeaux and I have to say, the copper molds REALLY make a difference compared to silicone molds. Every time I made them using a silicone mold they came out soft and not crunchy at all on the outside, so now I only use copper ones.
I love how every recipe she makes is her absolute favorite in the world.
So excited for the new recipe book!! Pre-ordered it a month ago and I'm pumped!
The new kitchen looks amazing. What a glow up.
I’ve made these several times and they are so good! Now I’m experimenting and making them with fireball😂
This is my favourite desert of all times! I live in Montreal so thank God for the accessibility. Love you Claire!
I made cannelés for the first time yesterday and now this video appears. Lovely coincidence. Mine turned out beautifully, I was so happy.
I was first introduced to this pastry from Emmymade when she tried to make it and I’ve never seen it before! It was only until I went to CDMX that I found these for soooo cheap. It was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten and I had to go back for more the next day.
just passed through Paris this morning and bought myself one of these for breakfast which i would have never paid any attention to if it werent for this video. it was delicious indeed!
I have never heard of these but oh boy they look unreal. That custardy goodness with the crunchy outside sounds like heaven!
Thanks for this video. I discovered caneles in Paris many years ago. They are not common in bakeries in the US, but lucky for me a Saturday Farmer's Market near me has a San Francisco bakery that sells them. They are a little bit of heaven for the weekend.
I love all of these videos, they literally get me through the rest of the week! Also the anticipation I feel every taste test waiting to see if we get another "MMM" is so good!
I just made these and this recipe was so helpful to follow compared to others I researched. Yum!!
Make these often. My family loves them. I had an uncle with cancer and he was losing his ability to eat solid foods. He asked me to make these for him. I drove 2 hours in horrible traffic to deliver to him one of his absolute fav foods. One of the last things he would ever eat. 😢
Hi from blind artist in Hollywood! I love your channel! You are so inspirational! 👩🏻🦯✨🥑💖
I just made these and they came out perfect. Thank you!!!
Never had or even seen these before. But they looked so good I wanted to try them. Drove by a French bakery randomly while far from home and there they were! I ate them as I drove home and they were amazing. Thank you for showcasing them and inspiring us all to try something new! Delicious
I'm from Bordeaux and as a Canelés lover I have to say yours look pretty good (perfect I mean). The outside crunch deserves a chef's kiss
The Bake Off-esque music as Claire watches the oven is sending me.
making canelés with the boys lets gooo
I was so incredibly excited when I saw that you uploaded a video on how to make Canelés - they are my uncontested favourites when it comes to French bakery, and I'm so lucky there's a place in my town where I can get them. So to anyone who's never had them - GET THEM OR MAKE THEM for the love of god, these little things might not look like much but they are heavenly.
My son came back from Copenhagen and proclaimed he found his new favorite dessert, canelés. Since then I’ve baked several dozen, more than 100, in batches of 8. I should really shell out for more copper molds.
Great recipe. I’ve made these a bunch…It helps minimize crazy rising to get the batter to room temp before baking..
I would die for Claire from the Dessert Person kitchens
I feel lucky there are at least 3 bakeries that have these regularly. My friend from France introduced me when she was living here. I hope to go to France in 2023 and will try to get the authentic molds. I always have beeswax around for making things so that won't be a problem. Can't wait to try these. Oh and I'm going to make them gluten free. That will be a risky experiment but successful I hope.
Stunning!
I think they rise out of the molds while baking because there's a water component to butter that evaporates and makes a bubble underneath the pastry. With such an intricate mold and a pastry that then fits perfectly inside, it makes sense to me that the bubble pushes the pastry up just enough to break the seal so gas can escape - hence the rise. Obviously there's always a little air in the batter no matter what that will expand and contract with temperature, but if the pastries are able to settle back down, it means it's not pure expansion of the batter that results in the pastry over-topping the mold. I wonder if using oil or clarified butter or ghee instead of regular butter would help with this?
there’s a bakery that does incredible caneles,,,and creme brulees,, and madeleines,,,it’s a shame it’s kinda far from my place, but seeing the process makes me appreciate them so much more,,,
Canelés and Kouign-amann are my absolute favourite French pastries.
Canelés are my favorite pastry in the world. The custard interior and crunchy outside are so delicious. But it's a little expensive to make good canelés. I only know one single bakery in my city that makes vanilla and Earl Grey canelés. I'd have to make an effort to go there, but so worth it.
YAY canelés are getting the love and attention they deserve! Claire yours are perfect and I want to bake them again. Well worth the time and effort. They're so boozy and fragrant with the perfect level of caramelized sweetness.
I love caneles but have only made them with silicone molds. Been scared about the copper molds but it seems reasonably manageable to make using the techniques you shared. Thanks!
Great video! I had caneles once from a farmer's market in Chicago, which was the first and last time I had seen them until this video. I'm so glad to finally be reminded what they are called so I can search them out with more efficiency (and maybe even bake them myself?!)
I’ve wanted to make these for years. First, I was pronouncing them wrong, second, I didn’t know about the beeswax coating, and third, I didn’t realize the batter needed to rest for so long. I think I have all the tips to try and make them successfully now. We’ll see… 💗
I go to a cafe that has these with matcha cream in them, they are my favorite, I cannot wait to make these!
I have a colleague that lives in Bordeaux and he always brings canelés when visiting the office! The dream
Yesss, I first had a canele a few years back in a fancy restaurant with my parents and found a cafe last year that had them. I would always get the orange oil ones and a espresso macchiato: THE BEST. Its creamy, sweet, bitter
Caneles are so delicious. I go every Saturday to a local bakery for one. They only make them on Saturday.
Hi there, Canelés always look so intriguing !! I can imagine the wonderful flavour, the richness of the rum and vanilla. Quite a few techniques to use here, following the preparation of the moulds will make you a winner and needless to say the oven temperature!! You wish to bake something out of the ordinary, take time and follow instructions. Have a happy day - after eating canelés!!
The combination of the crunchy carmelized exterior matched with a custary soft, tender center is reminiscent of a kouign amann pastry- which is definitely a good thing! I will definitely be looking for these at my local bakery and maybe even making some myself.
Kouign Amann is bread dough, sugar and butter though (amann mean butter in brittonic). Traditionally their is no milk or eggs in it.
Thank you for the info on these. Will try. Love your kitty cameo.
Love your hair with the beautiful white streak. You rock that look.
A few years ago I decided to try making these after trying one in a local shop and then seeing some friends in Europe share photos of the ones they made at home. I've made them four times - the first two as traditional canelés, the third as a matcha version (very nice) and the most recent as a cherry/dragon fruit version. The first three were perfect. I let them rest long enough. This last batch I made I only let rest a couple of hours and used too much egg white, so they puffed up too much, but they were still straight. I'll go back to letting the batter rest overnight and using just yolks (although usually one egg white doesn't hurt), since I added a bit more egg than I should have anyway. BTW, I use a Chefmade canelé pan and it works perfectly, and even this last batch tasted amazing.
claire referencing great british baking show is everything. she’s just like me fr
I first saw these at the Union Sq Farmers Market in NYC and have been trying to make these since. Every other one I have tried has been dry and sad... THANKS! Looking forward to trying your recipe.
Canelés are my favorite pastry ever. Claire is my favorite baker ever. This is my favorite video of all times! 🎉🤩🥳
im in the middle of a canelé phase right now so this is just such perfect timing thank you miss saffitz
Claire, I absolutely love your videos and they're definitely the highlight of my Thursdays! I was wondering if you could add CC to your videos for people like me that enjoy following along with captions. :)
I always thought they were a type of petit four and I couldn't find them again after having them in Paris like 10 years ago! They are amazing!
I did a side by side test of silicone versus metal canale molds a few years ago and quickly learned that you do not get the correct browning with silicone. Worth spending a bit more for that caramelization. Yum
I worked for a bakery that made these and even the less than perfect ones were so effin good.
Finally….come back from Nice with a rum canele and eating it as watching Claire! Bucket list ✔️
Caneles are my favourite pastry by far! Made them countless times. For me one of the key moments was not to overheat milk/butter mixture and don't let it boil - 80C or 180F is the go to. When I had it boiling batter cooked like a choux pastry with huge air pockets inside. And NEVER use rum extract, always use good rum, the difference is night and day! I've tried it once and the flavour of rum extract is so noticeable, that now I can smell it without tasting if a pastry shop used it instead of a rum lol. Pale bottoms is a constant checkbox of improvement, it depends on your moulds and exact temperature profile of your oven hugely, so be ready to develop your own baking routine for them. But my God they worth it!
My absolute favorite pastry on the entire planet!!!
I had these at a French bakery. Tasted like heaven
I looooove caneles. The Night Oven bakery in saskatoon always has them and I buy one (or three) every time I shop there. Sometimes I just go for the caneles. The texture is amazing.
i made these for my french class once in high school for a fake cooking show and they turned out surprisingly well but i wanna try again now
I make caneles in my metal mould... Its great and got lots of compliments... But this copper mold really great ya.. Wow
My favorite pastry!!!! I've been too nervous to try to make them but I feel like now I could! Ordering molds now!
A long overdue follow up but it went BEAUTIFULLY and I've now gotten many others hooked on them 💕
I love canelés! I even found a gluten free canelé maker in Bordeaux and so got to enjoy them for the first time in forever. It’s such a special dessert, unlike anything else I’ve tried.
Woah, what was the name of the bakery?
@@7HPDH I bought them at a grocery store by searching for “Canelés d’Audrey”.
I first heard of these in the Hakumei & Mikochi manga, where they are prepared by a baking badger! Maybe I'll have to give them a try...
that airy center gets me every time🥰🥰
My local French restaurant in New Zealand would give a free small canelés with your coffee. Simply the best pastry!
Love that you brought us back to something hard to make
Wow, amazing timing for this video. We're in Bordeaux this week eating lots and lots of canelés ! It's a new favorite we discovered, and we enjoyed watching you make them, Claire. Thanks!
Best part of the week: new video of Claire every thursday
I knew Claire was my favorite person ever canelés are my favorite too