Greater love hath no cook . . . than making puff pastry for his heart’s desire. It’s among the most arduous of kitchen jobs, right up there with peeling chestnuts and filling and sealing your own ...

For a few hours on Saturday, the inside of Madeline’s Pastry Shop in Laguna Hills is going to be transformed into a world record proving ground. Volunteers will be assembling what they hope will be ...

Some of the handsomest items on the pastry tray in a good restaurant or bake shop are the rectangular Napoleons, their white toppings covered with decorative lines of dark chocolate. When you cut into ...

The secret to this simple Mother’s Day dessert is frozen puff pastry. It is easy to work with and bakes up into a deliciously flaky pastry. You’ll find puff pastry in the grocer’s freezer section, ...

Thaw the puff pastry according to the package directions. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and cover a baking sheet with parchment paper. Unfold both sheets of pastry and divide each into thirds by ...

The directions on a box of puff pastry simply say to bake the pastry sheets. If you do so, the pastry will puff up (puff pastry, remember?), and your Napoleon will be quite unwieldly and difficult to ...

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