Puff Pastry Diamonds

This is a great versatile pastry shell for a breakfast treat, dessert, or to use with a savory filling. I have used this shape many times instead of individual vol-au-vents for large banquets (or when a customer’s taste exceeded his or her budget). The diamonds are less costly to produce, because you can just about eliminate any scrap dough and being much faster to assemble, your labor cost is lower. Because they look good on top of all that—why not?

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