While sweet puff pastry recipes may appear to be difficult to prepare, today I'm sharing 17 that are surprisingly simple to prepare. All you really need to know how to do is roll, stuff, twi
This collection of puff pastry recipes includes croissants, turnovers, donuts, cookies and my favorite Napoleons. Most of them require very little effort but produce delicious desserts.
They are so many ways you can use puff pastry. You can use it for sweet recipes, savory recipes, appetizers and even entrees.
Some people think the only way to create these beautiful desserts is to make homemade puff pastry, when in fact most homecooks use the ready-to-go frozen puff pastry you can find in your local grocery store.
A few of our favorite easy desserts made with puff pastry are Puff Pastry Christmas Cookies, Puff Pastry Valentine's Day Hearts and Puff Pastry Apple Tart.
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Tips for Baking with Puff Pastry
There's one golden rule that everyone who bakin sweet puff pastry recipes needs to know is to keep the dough cold. While you're preparing the dessert and the dough starts to get warm, place it on a baking tray and put it back in the refrigerator or even the freezer to chill it again.
Keeping the dough cold will help keep the butter in those layers of dough. When you bake the pastry, the butter will melt more slowly which will help the layers of dough puff up so beautifully.
Should you chill puff pastry before baking?
Puff pastry should be at room temperature while preparing the recipe, but chilled before baking. Place the recipe in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to chill the dough and then continuing with the baking process.
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Sweet Puff Pastry Recipes
Filled with sweetened cream cheese, apples, cinnamon and sugar, this is one dessert you'll be making over and over again.
These would look beautiful on a dessert table. The twists are filled with sweetened cream cheese mixed with melted chocolate!
Homemade croissants are a huge pain to make, but they taste so insanely phenomenal.
These berry turnovers are the perfect dessert for everyone and anyone, whether you’re enjoying the last berries of the season, or thinking of after school treats.
If you love donuts then you are going to love this puff pastry donuts recipe.
These quick and easy Cherry Cream Cheese Danishes are the perfect on the go breakfast, or sweet treat for the end of the day!
Easy puff pastry chocolate croissants require just 4 ingredients and only a few minutes to prepare!
If love apple crumble, you’ll love these apple crumble danishes! This easy apple recipe uses puff pastry as a base, making it perfect for breakfast or brunch.
Buttery, flaky, Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls are the ideal solution when you crave a sweet roll.
Wonderfully EASY golden, buttery Puff Pastry Cannoli Cones stuffed with decadently creamy authentic sweet ricotta filling are super impressive yet hardly any effort!
This Lemon Cream Cheese braid is ready in under 30 minutes! Flaky pastry filled with lemon curd and cream cheese to create a sweet, yet tart dessert everyone will love!
These Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Cookies were a nice surprise! With very few ingredients and the little effort it takes to make them you really get a big bang for your buck.
These Dulce de Leche Cronuts are insanely delicious and topped with a dulce de leche glaze.
This is a shortcut recipe for blueberry Danish pinwheels made with puff pastry.
Apple Turnovers are easy to make with puff pastry and a flavorful apple filling. Bake them immediately or freeze them to bake whenever you get the craving for a warm, flaky apple breakfast or dessert!
Chocolate Caramel and Strawberry Napoleons are perfectly elegant and take less than 20 minutes to prepare!
Air Fryer Puff Pastry Pop-Tarts are crisp, flakey pastries filled with your favorite fruit preserves and topped with buttery-sweet icing and adorned with all-natural, colorful sprinkles.
LauraB says
Excellent recipes. Easy to follow directions. Thank you
Lois says
Thank you!