This apricot pastry is a French classic dessert (Oranais aux abricots). Usually, this dessert is made with puff pastry, pastry cream and apricots, but this time I made the easier version of this ...

A galette is always an easier move than pie (rustic, un-crimped edges are our friends), but this one goes a step further. Instead of making dough from scratch, all you have to do is unwrap a sheet of ...

Puff pastry makes desserts look impressive without requiring a lot of effort. Its flaky layers do most of the work, while you ...

Although puff pastry may not rank quite as high as chicken stock and canned beans on your must-have food staples list, if you keep a package of it in your freezer, you’ll never be far away from a ...

Editor’s note: Living in the Colorado High Country is pure joy. Baking in it isn’t. High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall, and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level.

Ina Garten has a lot of favorite foods, but she called one simple yet elegant dessert her “all-time favorite.” The best part is it’s made with just four ingredients and uses a store-bought item that ...

Ready-made puff pastry has saved my bacon more times than I can remember. A packet of prerolled puff in the freezer means an impressive-looking dinner or dessert is never far away. It’s not that I don ...

When the dessert menu arrives in most restaurants, diners who want a little something sweet are often out of luck. Most of the choices will be over-the-top indulgent: molten chocolate cake with ...

Few things are as joyous as beef Wellington. Fillet of beef coated in paté and mushroom duxelles, encased in a buttery wrapping of wafer-like flaky puff pastry. Hand-made puff pastry (paté feuilletée) ...

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