In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine the all-purpose flour, bread flour, granulated sugar, yeast and salt. Pulse several times to blend. Add the cold butter cubes and ...

Some desserts demand time and precision—but not these. Puff pastry is the ultimate shortcut for creating bakery-worthy sweets ...

Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

When hunger hits and you need something quick, these snacks come through every time. They're fast, simple, and loved by ...

When it comes to cooking, I find that the “simplest” recipes are often the hardest to perfect. But my Achilles’ heel, I’m afraid, is shortcrust pastry. I know it should be simple. It only involves ...

If you’re like me, from time to time, you buy a package of puff pastry to make a special treat, use one sheet and then put the rest in the freezer, thinking you’ll bake something else with it someday.

When in doubt, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to dessert tarts. Because tissue-thin ...

Puffed pastry dough is a totally underappreciated ingredient, at least as far as time-crunched families are concerned. It’s so versatile and easy to use, I’m not sure why it isn’t in the rotation in ...