Pastry Crusts
A pastry or crumb crust sets the foundation for its filling. Butter dough, chocolate crumb crust, and rough puff preparations offer different textures for pies and other baked dishes.
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Puff Pastry
Puff pastry builds a layered structure that can carry sweet or savory ingredients. Rough puff and other dough preparations sit alongside cheese twists in this collection of pastry recipes.
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Flaky Pastry
This is somewhere between a rich traditional pie dough and puff pastry, and the traditional pastry for Eccles cake or Ecclefechan tart. It’s somewhat easier to make than…
Parmesan Cheese Twists
½ of a 17.3-ounce package Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry Sheets (1 sheet), thawed 1 egg 1 tablespoon water ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley…
Food Processor Quick Puff Pastry
Leave the frozen stuff on the shelf — chef Nick Malgieri’s fresh puff pastry pastry recipe is tasty and easy to make in your food processor. It appears…
Quick Puff Pastry
Use pastry chef Nick Malgieri’s easy puff pastry recipe from his cookbook “Bake! Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking.” 1¼ cups (2½ sticks) unsalted butter, chilled 2 cups all-purpose…
Rough Puff Pastry
Use this great recipe for rough puff pastry to make Olive Straws. 1 pound 2 ounces all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface 1 pound 2 ounces very…
Fast and Easy Puff Pastry
Wonderfully flaky, buttery, tender pastries, turnovers, cheese straws, elephant ears (palmiers), shells for savory fillings, and more can be yours with a minimum of effort. 1½ cups King…
Classic Puff Pastry Pate Feuilletee
The French call it “pate feuilletee,” which means “pastry made leaf-like.” In fact, it has so many “leaves” that it is also called “millefeuille,” meaning a thousand leaves.…
Ron’s Brandy Apple Pie
Ron Dube’s recipe for brandy apple pie won first place in Stone Barns’ 2006 pie contest. For The Crust 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for coating and…
Cream Cheese Pie Crust
2 teaspoons cold water 1 teaspoon cold cider vinegar 1½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface ½ teaspoon salt 4 ounces (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut…
Chocolate Crumb Pie Shell
1½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs ¼ cup unsalted butter; softened 1 tablespoon granulated sugar Preheat oven to 375ºF. In a large mixing bowl mix ingredients until thoroughly blended.…
