Quick Puff Pastry Dough

Name: Quick Puff Pastry Dough
Ingredients: 2¾ cups (5½ sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes; 1 cup cold water, or as needed; 3½ cups all-purpose flour; ½ cup cake flour (not self-rising); 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes about
3 pounds

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Home Desserts

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

About

This puff pastry is made in a flash. Because there is more butter than flour by weight, it rises beautifully, even though it’s made without all of the traditional rests between turns. It freezes well.

Ingredients

3½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup cake flour (not self-rising)
1 te

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Cut in the butter, using a pastry blender, 2 knives or your fingers. Leave the butter in large chunks (about ¼ inch). Stir in just enough cold water to hold the dough together. At this point, the dough will look lumpy and not blended.</