Sweet Palmiers

Name: Sweet Palmiers
Yield: Makes about 2 dozen
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour, about 9 ounces (255 grams); 20 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch dice (4 tablespoons kept separate); 1 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, water cold, plus a tablespoon more, if necessary; 1 cup, sugar; 1 , large egg; , kosher salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

Desserts or Baked Goods

French

Holiday

Using a food processor and a new "jelly-roll" folding method, home cooks can now make puff pastry easily and quickly.

SERVESMakes about 2 dozen

TIME1 hour, plus 3 hours chilling and 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wondered if we could eliminate the repeated rolling and folding called for in the conventional puff pastry recipe, but still create multiple layers in our quick puff pastry dough recipe. We discovered we could do this by folding the doug...

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