Puff Pastry

Recipe: Quick puff pastry

Recipe: Puff pastry

What makes puff pastry so light and crispy? Well, the secret is in the folding. Puff pastry is made by placing chilled butter (or sometimes lard) between sheets of dough, then folding and rolling it many times to create hundreds of layers. As it cooks, steam lifts and separates the layers, resulting in a crisp, flaky pastry suitable for the tops of pies or the classic French dessert, mille-feuille (translates a "a thousand leaves").

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Recipe: Classical puff pastry

Go to the bottom of the recipe for instructions on how to do a few basic things with puff pastry:

For thinly rolled dough ... Bouchee ... Criss-cross Tartlet ... Puff Strip ... Vol-au-Vent

Recipe: Katherine's Puff Pastry

If dough is too sticky or dry, you may need to use extra flour or water. It is very important for good puff pastry that everything is kept very cold. Puff pastry is better made with bread flour because of the higher gluten content.