16 Impressive Puff Pastry Recipes That Are Secretly Easy - XO, Katie Rosario (2024)

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Puff Pastry is a versatile ingredient that can be used in many recipes savory or sweet. With these puff pastry recipes you can easily make impressive looking dishes.

Every smart lady has a few clever tricks to help them make things easier in the kitchen; puff pastry is one of my favorites!

Puff pastry is one of those magical things where it bakes perfectly every time. Oh and did I mention its buttery and flaky too? Simply top it or fill it with a variety of things like meat, veggies, fruit or chocolate.

These recipes feature the puff pastry in many ways like beef empanadas, nutella croissants and cheesy baked eggs.

These puff pastry recipes are no fuss and will surely impress whoever eats them.

Here’s 16 Impressive Puff Pastry Recipes That Are Secretly Easy!

Let’s Get Cooking!

1. Beef Empanadas Olives

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Found from Diethood

These delicate pockets of beef and olives will hit the spot with the spicy and briny filling. The flaky crust is crispy and perfectly golden brown. The filling you can make ahead of time and fill as needed. These empanadas are quick to prepare and will be devoured quickly!

2. Ginger Pear Puff Pastry Tart

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Found from Fork Knife Swoon

This beautiful dessert looks impressive and is secretly easy. The nearly translucent, thin layers of fresh pear brushed with a sweet, spiced ginger sauce nestled seductively a top flaky, golden puff-pastry was just too much to resist!

3. Chicken Pot Pie

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Found from Lovely Little Kitchen

When the weather turns colder it’s nice to snuggle up next to the fire and enjoy a comforting bowl of chicken pot pie. This simple chicken pot pie recipe will soon be a family favorite that you will happily make again and again. The puff pastry is woven into a lattice pattern which completes the pot pie!

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4. Pepperoni Puff Pastry Pizza

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Found from How Sweet Eats

Craving pizza? You definitely will after you see this recipe. Making pizza can be quiet time consuming and difficult to make from scratch. But this puff pastry pizza is everything you want on a busy night. Under 30 minutes you will have crispy delicious homemade pizza!

5. 3 Ingredient Nutella Croissants

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Found from Gimme Some Oven

Here’s a dessert that is a take on a french pastry favorite. These nutella croissants are only 3 ingredients that include puff pastry, water and of course nutella! These buttery pastries will bring joy to everyone who has them!

6. Pepper Steak Pie

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Found from Simply Delicious Food

These delicious pepper steak pies are made with steak, onions, garlic, rosemary, thyme, and tomatoes stuffed inside to pieces of puff pastry. The golden brown crusts holds all these delicious flavor inside like a pretty little packet!

7. Simple Cherry Pastry Pies

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Found from Sally’s Baking Addiction

Think of these cherry pastry pies like the ultimate pop tart. The homemade cherry filling inside is insanely good and makes it the perfect handheld treat!

8. Spinach Puff Pastry Rolls with Feta Ricotta

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Found from Picture The Recipe

Here’s a delicious bite of savory pastries! What’s even more appealing about this recipe is that using puff pastry and the filling (which you can make ahead of time) you can shape or cut these anyway and size you like. This makes them so easy to prepare as a bite-sized appetizer, a midday snack or as lunch serve with a green salad!

9. Puff Pastry Glazed Donuts

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Found from Six Sisters’ Stuff

Craving donuts but don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen? Use puff pastry dough to create your donuts. The puff pastry fries perfectly golden brown with buttery flaky layers that will be devoured so fast!

10. Asparagus Egg and Prosciutto Tart

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Found from Half Baked Harvest

This puff pastry recipe has everything you ever want in a delightful package. You start with a layer of puff pastry and sprinkle everything spice (you know the stuff made for bagels) fresh basil, a little Gruyère cheese, asparagus and prosciutto. Bake that all up in the oven and allow the pasty to get puffy golden brown, the cheese to melt, the asparagus to roast, and the prosciutto to get extra crispy. When it comes out of the oven add soft boiled eggs with salt and pepper. Slice and serve. This tart is perfect for every occasion like brunch, lunch, dinner, appetizers and so much more!

11. Blueberry Puff Pastry Pies

Found from Dinner with Julie

This will be one of those recipes that you can keep in your back pocket and use all year round. The puff pastry is rolled and cut into squares then fill the center with a fruit filling like raspberries, strawberries, peaches, figs or in this case blueberries. Then bake until golden. My favorite part is serving these individual pies with a scoop of fresh vanilla ice cream. Its simple and the best bite ever!

12. Veggie Quiche

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Found from Shugary Sweets

Maybe you are having a bunch of people over and need a quick brunch item. This no fuss veggies quiche is perfect for entertaining or feeding your family. Place the puff pastry dough in a pie dish and mix the eggs, veggies and cheese into a bowl. Then pour the mixture over the dough. Next place it into the oven. Within 30 minutes you’ll have a delicious quiche that will make you look like you spent all day in the kitchen but we both know you didn’t!

13. Cheesy Puff Pastry Baked Eggs

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Found from Just A Taste

Here’s a 4 ingredient breakfast recipe that is good enough to impress your guest. All you need is puff pastry, cheese, eggs and fresh chives. These perfectly baked egg pastries are filling but light. They can be made in large batches for a crowd or just a few for a simple family breakfast!

14. Vegetable Wellington with Mushrooms and Spinach

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Found from PureWow

This recipe just fascinates me since beef wellingtons are typically intimidating to make but this vegetable wellington is easy enough that anyone can make it. You could indulge and spend the rest of the night in a food coma, or you could try our lightened-up veggie Wellington instead. And with the help of store-bought puff-pastry sheets, stuffed with delicious veggies you have a twist on a comfort-food classic that couldn’t be easier to make.

15. Ina Garten’s Sticky Buns

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Found from Pass The Sushi

Indulge your sweet tooth with these simple sticky buns. This recipe is an adaption of Ina Garten’s sticky bun recipe and it is nothing but a star! Perfectly flaky dough with a caramel and nut topping that’s not overly sweet, but is certainly enough to satisfy your sweet tooth.

16. Apple Rose Tarts

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Found from Kirbie Cravings

These apple roses are simple beautiful and highly impressive for very little work. By rolling thin slices of apple into a strip of puff pastry then its baked into a muffin pan to hold its shape. WHen its done baking sprinkle powdered sugar on top to give it a beautiful presentation.

Turns out you can make many recipes with frozen puff pastry dough. These puff pastry recipes are sure to impress and will definitely be a big hit for a family dinner or your next party!

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FAQs

Why do you put lemon juice in puff pastry? ›

Make a well and add the liquid (the tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar helps tenderize the dough and keep it from oxidizing or turning gray). Stir into the bowl while lightly tossing the ingredients to moisten them evenly, keeping the butter pieces large.

What are the 3 types of puff pastry? ›

The terms full, three-quarter and half are used when describing the amount of fat in the pastry. Full has equal weight of fat and flour, three-quarter has three-quarters of the weight of fat to flour, and half has half the weight of fat to flour. More fat makes the pastry softer to eat but reduces its height.

How to make puff pastry Jamie Oliver? ›

How to make perfect puff pastry
  1. Mix the flour with ¼ of a teaspoon of sea salt in a bowl, then cube and rub in the lard with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.
  2. Slowly add 100ml of ice-cold water and mix it until you have a smooth dough (add extra water if needs be) – do not overwork.
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How do you get the best results with puff pastry? ›

The keys to ensuring that you get crisp, flaky layers from your pastry are concerned with temperature and handling. Pastry should be at room temperature for rolling (to make it more pliable), but chilled before baking (so the buttery layers remain separate).

What does vinegar do in puff pastry? ›

Adding vinegar tenderizes the pastry. It inhibits gluten from forming there by making the pastry tender and flaky.

What is the purpose of vinegar in puff pastry? ›

Adding an acid, the theory goes, stops the gluten in its tracks and rescues the crust from toughness. These same acid enthusiasts claim that stopping or at least hindering the gluten makes the dough easier to roll out, and may even prevent it from shrinking as it bakes.

What is the Swiss method of puff pastry? ›

How to make
  1. Heat oven to 400°F.
  2. Place waxed paper onto cutting board; unfold pastry sheet on waxed paper. Using a pizza cutter or knife, cut pastry sheet into 1 1/2-inch squares. ...
  3. Combine egg and water in bowl. Brush tops of pastry squares; sprinkle with poppy seed. ...
  4. Combine all filling ingredients in bowl.

What is the secret to puff pastry? ›

The trick is to work large pieces of cold butter into dry ingredients and hydrate it all with ice cold water (as if you were making pie crust). Sometimes bakers grate butter into the mix or use a food processor. There's lots of ways to make rough puff pastry.

What is the difference between puff pastry and flaky puff pastry? ›

Flaky pastry relies on large lumps of butter (approximately 1 in or 2.5 cm across) mixed into the dough, as opposed to the large rectangle of butter in puff pastry. Flaky pastry dough is then rolled and folded in a manner similar to puff pastry.

Is butter or egg better on puff pastry? ›

We are Team Egg Wash (or Cream Wash). While melted butter adds more flavor than the washes, it is less effective in look; it gives a speckled appearance to pastry.

How to make blind pastry? ›

Line the base and sides of an uncooked pastry case with non-stick baking paper. Fill with rice, dried beans, or metal or ceramic baking weights. (This stops the pastry base rising during cooking.) Place on a baking tray and cook in an oven preheated to 220C for 8-10 minutes.

Is egg or milk better for puff pastry? ›

Milk is too runny and will burn but you can add a little to your egg wash to make it a little thinner for coating. Melted butter also burns quite quickly. Egg wash is the most reliable because it coats the pastry evenly and doesn't run off.

Why is my puff pastry so hard after baking? ›

My baked pastry is tough.

It usually occurs when you've been a bit heavy-handed with the water when you're initially bringing the pastry together (by adding water to the flour and butter), or if you have over-worked the dough and developed the gluten in the flour.

What is the secret of good pastry? ›

Water, however, is absorbed much less easily into flour proteins when the temperature is colder. That's why purists recommend cold ingredients, cold equipment and marble boards. Keeping the butter cold also helps when making short crust pastry because it doesn't melt into the flour when you are working it in.

What is the purpose of lemon juice in baking? ›

To bring a citrus profile to baked goods: like lemon zest, adding a little lemon juice to a lemon cake or cookie recipe can dial up the citrus flavor. To bring out flavors of fresh fruit - we like adding a little lemon juice to a fruit pie filling to bring out the natural flavors of the fruit.

Why do you put lemon juice in dough? ›

Lemon juice is a natural dough enhancer, creating more elasticity to the dough which in return makes it easier for the bread to stretch and rise. If baking with ROGERS No Additive ALL Purpose flours, using lemon juice is helpful.

What is the secret to Puff Pastry? ›

Always preheat your oven for a minimum of 15-20 minutes before baking, because Puff Pastry depends on even heat to rise and puff. Place pastries 1 inch apart. If you want a flaky thin and crispy pastry that's not very puffy, prick the unbaked Puff Pastry all over with a fork, which lets steam escape while baking.

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