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Food Friday 1/14/21: Comfort baking with Gail Sokol

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Chef Gail Sokol
Courtesy Gail Sokol

Chef Gail Sokol joins us to talk about comfort baking.. Call at 2pm and share a recipe, or ask Gail a question. 800-348-2551. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Chef-Educator Gail Sokol has been teaching children and adults about baking for over 20 years, beginning as an instructor at SUNY Schenectady in the Culinary Department and later at The Sage Colleges in the Nutrition Department. Chef Gail is the author of a professional textbook, “About Professional Baking,” and a cookbook “Baking With Success.”

Chef Gail has her own podcast -- “Baking Radio” -- she also has a series of YouTube baking videos where she teaches globally on all topics baking.

Here’s the video for Gail's Boston Cream Pie:

And here's the recipe for the Boston Cream Pie.

Here is the recipe to the Vanilla Pastry Cream that is used:

And here's a link to the Ganache recipe that is used.