Flaky Pastry Bites (with quick and easy puff pastry dough)
Bincy Chris
Flaky Pastry Bites made with quick and easy puff pastry dough.You can make this flaky pastry dough in less than 15 minutes.
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 18 minutes mins
Cooling time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 38 minutes mins
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American, British
- 270 g All-purpose flour or 2 cups loosely packed
- 3 g Salt 1/2 teaspoon
- 85 g Unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces or 6 tbsp
- 12.5 g Sugar or 1 tbsp
- 4 g Baking powder 1 tsp
- 150-165 ml Milk or 3/4 cup -1 or 2 tbsp
Before Preparing the flaky pastry dough
Before preparing the dough, Slice very cold butter into small cubes.Use a knife to slice butter and then a butter knife to detach the butter (try not to touch the butter as it may start to melt)To keep the butter solid, I like to keep the small butter cubes in freezer, while we mix the dry ingredients.
PREPARE THE FLAKY PASTRY DOUGH
BUILD THE LAYERS
Transfer the dough on to a lightly floured work surface.Using hands, squish the dough from sides and form a dough ball.Again squish and pat from top to form a flat square sheet.The dough may be slightly crumbly ,but we don’t want it to be doughy in texture.Now using a bench scraper, cut the dough into 4 equal parts.Stack them one over the other.Squish and pat again to form a rough square.Again cut into 4 parts and stack them one over the other and then form a flat sheet of approximately 1/2 inch thick.
CUT THE FLAKY PASTRY BITES
We can use cookie cutter of different shapes to cut the dough and make flaky pastries.I used a small 2 1/4 inch round cookie cutter.In this way, we can make around 10 flaky puff pastry bites in total.We can stack the remaining pastry dough ,squish and pat again to form pastry sheet. Place the cut pastries on a non stick tray or a parchment lined baking tray.Keep the tray covered in freezer for 5-10 minutes.We need the butter to be cold and almost solid while we take it into the oven for baking.
BAKE THE FLAKY PASTRY BITES
FOUR MOST IMPORTANT THINGS FOR MAKING THE BEST FLAKY PUFF PASTRY
- Use Cold Ingredients and try to keep the dough cold all the time
- Don’t Overwork the dough
- Don’t add too much milk while preparing the flaky pastry dough
- Work as fast as you can while working with the dough
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