Chocolate Puff Pastry

Name: Chocolate Puff Pastry
Yield: Makes 640 g
Ingredients: 100 ml water; 50 g cocoa powder (sifted if lumpy); pinch of salt; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 200 g butter, slightly softened; 25 g butter; 250 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
640 g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

You will need to set aside a bit of time to make this, but homemade chocolate puff pastry really is something else and it is a great recipe to have in your patisserie arsenal. For successful results, it is key that the dough packet (known as a ‘détrempe’) and chocolate butter packet reach a similar consistency.

Ingredients

For the dough ‘packet’

25 g butter
250 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
100

Pastry
Microwave
Vegetarian

Method

To make the détrempe (dough packet), melt the butter in a small pan or in the microwave and then set aside to cool. Put the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the water and mix it together with a wooden spoon. Then add the vinegar (this will help to give a more tender puff pastry) and the melted butter along with the salt and stir to combine.

Knead the dough for