Puff pastry is a busy host's best friend. Also known as pâte feuilletée, puff pastry is essentially just laminated dough. Like a croissant, it's flaky, feather-light, and packs big butter flavor ...

What an invention, puff pastry! Its creator earned, without knowing it, a place of honor in the kitchen. Few doughs can do so much with so little. And yet, we continue to underestimate it, especially ...

If your parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to dessert tarts.

If your New Year’s Eve parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to ...

Canapés are constructed to be the perfect single bite, a sophisticated medley of flavors, textures, and colors artfully arranged and typically passed during cocktail hour at fancy shindigs. These mini ...

Puff pastry is like a secret weapon for impressing guests without spending all day in the kitchen. Those flaky, golden layers make everything look fancy and taste incredible, even when the recipe ...

Right now, at the peak of the holiday party season, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a package of puff pastry. But ...

Sausage turnovers (aka pigs in blanket), foreground, are a step up from the usual when wrapped in puffed pastry, on Tuesday Dec., 12, 2017. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Wellington bites sub ...

Sausage turnovers (aka pigs in blanket), foreground, are a step up from the usual when wrapped in puffed pastry, on Tuesday Dec., 12, 2017. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Sausage turnovers (aka pigs ...