Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Paramount Desserts

By Christine Manfield

Published 1998

  • About

The nature of puff pastry lies in its preparation, where layers of butter and flour are multiplied through repeated folding and rolling. With the application of heat, the air that has been trapped between the layers expands and the water evaporates, causing the layers to separate and push up.

Puff pastry is the most complicated of all pastries: the temperature at which it is made is as important as the resting time between turns, and the rolling of the dough must be carried out with