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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
Cook Time 18 minutes
Cooling time 10 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Servings 10 Pastry Bites

Ingredients
  

  • 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

Instructions
 

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

  • Into a bowl, add in the flour, sugar,salt and baking powder.
  • Stir and combine everything together using a whisk until all our ingredients get evenly distributed in the flour.
    Now get the cold butter cubes out of freezer and add into the flour mix.
    Toss the butter in flour.
    And now you can easily squish the butter and they will get separated into small butter cubes.
    Now we get small pea sized butter pieces homogeneously distributed in the flour.
  • Add cold milk, little by little into the flour mixture and, using a fork, gently toss and stir together until large lumps form and almost all of the flour has been moistened. 
    We need to be careful while adding milk..if we add more milk, the pastry will become tough and hard.
    So it is better to add milk little by little and stop when the dough can be squeezed and be pressed to form dough.
    We don’t want all our butter to get dissolved into the dough..and it is a good sign to see the butter pieces in between the 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

  • Before taking them into the oven for baking, to make the crust shiny and golden ,we can give an egg wash (which is optional) .
    In a small bowl, whisk an egg for the egg wash. 
    Remove the chilled pastry from the refrigerator, and lightly brush with the egg wash. 
    If you want, you can sprinkle the top with some granulated sugar as well.
  • Place the baking tray on to 425 degrees F or 220 C Preheated oven and bake for 16-18 minutes or until they turn golden brown on top.

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Notes

FOUR MOST IMPORTANT THINGS FOR MAKING THE BEST FLAKY PUFF PASTRY

  1. Use Cold Ingredients and try to keep the dough cold all the time
  2. Don’t Overwork the dough
  3. Don’t add too much milk while preparing the flaky pastry dough
  4. Work as fast as you can while working with the dough
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