Homemade Puff Pastry

Published on Aug 8, 2013
Updated on Oct 29, 2018

Homemade Puff Pastry // This homemade puff pastry is surprisingly simple and is great with a sweet or savory filling! | Tried and TastyThis is the EASIEST recipe you will ever make. Well. I thought it was so simple it couldn’t be true. One try and it turned out absolutely perfect. I had these recently at a friends house and I assumed they were store bought. Who makes your own puff pastry right? I happened to say something about which brand they bought or something or another when I was shocked to find out they were homemade! I was even more shocked to learn just how simple they were. Challenge accepted. The next day I tied up my apron strings and went right to work. Voila! Absolute perfection. The most obvious filling is a sweet filling, but you can also fill these with savory things as well. They are extremely versatile. Stay tuned for part 2… I will soon share with you the most delicious sweet filled pastry!

Homemade Puff Pastry

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Homemade Puff Pastry
Prep Time: 8 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 48 minutes
Servings: 12
Calories: 163 kcal
Author: Yvonne

Don't be fooled, this Homemade Puff Pastry is more simple than you think!

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Ingredients

  • 1 c. water
  • 1/2 c. butter or margarine
  • 1 c. Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
  • 4 eggs

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 400ºF. In 2 1/2-quart saucepan, heat water and butter to rolling boil. Stir in flour; reduce heat to low. Stir vigorously over low heat about 1 minute or until mixture forms a ball (warning: your arm WILL get tired); remove from heat.
  2. Beat in eggs, all at once; continue beating until smooth. On ungreased cookie sheet or Silpat lined, drop dough by slightly less than 1/4 cupfuls about 3 inches apart. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until puffed and golden. Cool away from draft, about 30 minutes.

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Betty Crocker

Nutrition Facts
Homemade Puff Pastry
Amount Per Serving
Calories 163 Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9g14%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Cholesterol 75mg25%
Sodium 92mg4%
Potassium 41mg1%
Carbohydrates 15g5%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 325IU7%
Calcium 14mg1%
Iron 1.2mg7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Homemade Puff Pastry // This homemade puff pastry is surprisingly simple and is great with a sweet or savory filling! | Tried and Tasty

Homemade Puff Pastry // This homemade puff pastry is surprisingly simple and is great with a sweet or savory filling! | Tried and Tasty

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13 comments about “Homemade Puff Pastry

    1. Yvonne

      Yay for baking them perfectly!!! I loved how they turned out.. and if they were soggy in the middle we’d have problems. I don’t like me any kinda soggy anything – thanks for the sweet words :)

      1. Tami

        Just wanted to add that this is more if a cream puff/eclair shell. Puff pastry is made up of many layers of dough. Some call it phillo dough, but in culinary school, and the bakeries I’ve worked in it was known as puff pastry. Now-a-days there are machines you can feed the dough through to roll it out, then you fold in thirds, rotate, and feed it through again. Do this over & over & you get that nice flaky dough that puffs up with all those buttery layers. Back in the day, we rolled by hand on the huge benches. It was quite the work out!

        In any case your cream puff shells look wonderful! Thank you for sharing!

        1. Yvonne

          Great information! I’ve learned more about this from posting it than I ever think I would have otherwise :) I love the tip about making the fluffy layers. You better believe I’m going to try that! Thank you so much!!

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