Pretty fruit tarts will have your guests oohing and aahing at dessert time. Puff pastry shells cradle a luscious vanilla pastry cream (creme patissiere) topped with strawberries. Don't worry, it ...

Making homemade puff pastry, with its many layers of delicious buttery flakiness, isn't nearly as difficult as it appears. Rough puff pastry is very forgiving, and the scraggier and more uneven it ...

Making puff pastry the traditional way is slower than the rough puff method, but the reward is unmistakable. These are the kinds of flaky layers that shatter delicately when baked, the kind bakers ...

Pastry chef Paola Velez uses homemade puff pastry to make these sweet, tangy pastries—which you may also find called pastelitos, pastelillos, or turnovers—stuffed with cream cheese and guava paste, a ...