Quickest Puff Pastry

This is the best way to prepare the dough easily and quickly. It’s really a machine-made version of quick puff pastry: large cubes, as opposed to a single block, of butter are incorporated into the dough to create the layers that will later puff apart. After you’ve prepared this dough once or twice, you’ll be able to go from start to finish in about 15 minutes—maybe a world record for puff pastry production.

Quickest puff pastry works like this: Large pieces of butter are embedded i