Making puff pastry at home has always felt a little magical to me. Flour, butter, and time come together to create delicate flaky layers that rise in the oven without yeast or commercial leavening.

Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always crave a treat after dinner. But who has the time or energy to bake desserts from scratch? Fortunately, the solution to ...

Puff pastry might be the most underrated secret weapon in your freezer. Those golden, buttery layers shatter at the first bite and practically melt on your tongue, yet working with them requires zero ...

The festive treat is flaky and crumbly on the outside, with a soft and sweet filling that can be made with a variety of ingredients like coconut, cashews and khoya (milk solids). For Indians, the word ...

When it's fresh, there's nothing like a rich, crispy, and flaky puff pastry — whether you buy it from a bakery, or make your own rough-puff pastry at home. It shatters upon your first bite from all ...

1. Make the Pastry: Stir the salt into the ice water until dissolved. In a food processor, combine the 3 1/2 cups of flour and the butter and pulse until the butter is the size of peas and evenly ...

Few things make people as nervous in the kitchen as making pastry dough. This is understandable because it’s easy to get wrong, and you can end up with something tough or soggy, instead of a light and ...

Mindy Segal, one of Chicago's top pastry chefs, prepares first and main courses at her lovely restaurant, HotChocolate, as well as delightful desserts like these apple potpies. The secret is the gooey ...

Burekas are one of the most popular Jewish foods out there. When the Sephardic Jews from the lands of the Ottoman Empire — Istanbul, Izmir, the Balkans, Rhodes and Syria — settled in pre-state Israel, ...