Homemade puff pastry sheets are made plain flour and butter to create a beautiful laminated dough. The dough is enriched with butter and laminated with butter to create the flaky layers. In this blog post, I have shared two ways of making puff pastry sheets at home using butter and shorteni...
(Kyle Books, 2015)details clear, step-by-step instructions for every type of pastry dough you can imagine. Here, we’ve provided Nick’s instructions on how you can successfully create that ever-elusive perfect puff pastry. Give it a try and be sure to check out the rest of the amazing...
1. Cut the dough for the puff pastry into three equal rectangular pieces. The size of the puff pastry pieces is up to you. Use a fork to poke some little holes in the pastry and sprinkle a thin layer of powdered or granulated sugar on the surface. Set the oven at 200 °C (392 ...
Many instructions state that it is necessary to make 6 turns in your pastry. When you’re making it by hand, you should only make 3 or 4 turns. It simply isn’t that practical to try so many turns without the consistency of a machine – your odds of tearing your dough or squeezing ...
How to Make Puff Pastry I used my food processor to bring this puff pastry dough together and it was so easy, a few pulses and you are ready to go! Place the flour and some of the butter cubes in the food processor. Pulse until the butter is worked into the dough. Add the rest ...
Place a dollop of cream cheese and preserves at one end of the dough. Cut three little slits into the other end of the dough. Moisten the edges of the dough(with water)then fold the bottom half over the cream cheese/preserves and crimp the edges to seal. ...
This recipe needs puff pastry dough, which you can find in the freezer section of the grocery store. Pepperidge Farm brand was what I tended to use when we were still in the US, now I tend to use President’s Choice brand, here in Canada. ...
This is pretty easy recipe for sugar sprinkled puff pastry cookies which can be made from either ready-to-use puff pastry dough, or homemade one. Either way the recipe isn’t too complicated to follow. I used whole sheet of puff pastry dough prepared for last week recipe (that was made...
It's traditional to use a pastry bag, with the 1/2 inch plain tip, to pipe the choux dough onto your baking sheet. You could just spoon it out into little mounds, or for éclairs, shape the dough into little cylinders with your hands. But a pastry bag will definitely give you a ni...
Use a good quality puff pastry dough. This will make a big difference in the final product. Make sure the dough is cold when you work with it. This will prevent it from sticking to your hands or the work surface. When wrapping the dough around the cream horn molds, make sure to overl...