Easy Homemade Puff Pastry

In this article, I will show you an easy way to make homemade puff pastry. And when I say easy, I really mean it. Also, I will give you 3 nice ideas on how to use it. If you are searching for a traditional recipe for a puff pastry as we all know it, you should skip this one. But, if you are searching for an easy homemade puff pastry that doesn´t involve folding, cooling, and repeating the process an endless amount of times, prepare to be amazed!

Why You´ll Love This Easy Homemade Puff Pastry:

• it takes only 5 minutes to make
• you´ll need only 3 ingredients to make it
• it´s absolutely beginner-friendly
• it´s healthier than the store-bought version
• it´s much easyer to make than the classic puff pastry
• it´s so versatile

The thing we all love the most about puff pastry (other than being absolutely delicious) is how quickly you can get a variety of different wonderful snacks, from sweet to savory. But, if you are like me and like to read the ingredients list on the packaging, you already discovered that store-bought puff pastry contains not-so-healthy ingredients. And again, if you are like me, maybe you already tried making your own puff pastry at home, using just simple ingredients like butter, flour, and water. And if you have, you already realized how much time and effort you have to put into it. I´m not saying that it´s not worth it, but you rarely have time for such projects. and Puff! All the charm about making your own puff pastry is suddenly gone. What used to be a quick snack solution with a store-bought puff pastry now became an hours-long experiment. And I´m definitely not saying you should never try it, but today I am giving you a puff pastry option for days when you don´t have time for experiments.

What You´ll Need To Make This Easy Homemade Puff Pastry:

Butter- just like in the classic puff pastry, this recipe also calls for a lot of butter. You can also substitute it for margarine, of course, but I will always be on Team Butter. But, since you are doing this pastry from scratch, it means you can choose the type of butter you want to use here. And yes, it means garlic butter is also a choice! Since I used this batch to make only savory snacks, I decided to use butter with herbs. If you want to make some sweet pastry with it as well, then just stick to normal butter.

Quark- If you´re not familiar with it, quark is a type of cheese very similar to cottage cheese, but it has a smooth texture. The texture is similar to that of cream cheese but it contains much less fat (well, at least the low-fat quark does). In this recipe, I used low-fat quark.

Flour- I used all-purpose flour for this recipe.

Make 3 Types Of Snacks Using This Easy Homemade Puff Pastry

Tomato-pesto pillows

For this wonderful snack you will need some pesto, some tomatoes, and our easy homemade puff pastry. I used around 100 g of pesto and 4 average-sized tomatoes. Just roll the dough into a 0.5 cm thick sheet, and cut it into squares slightly bigger than your tomato slices. Now put cca one teaspoon of pesto in the middle of each square and cover it with the tomato slice. Bake at 200C and enjoy!

Bacon swirls

Other than your puff pastry, for this snack you will need only cca 200 g of thin-cut breakfast bacon. Again, roll your dough into a 0.5 cm thick sheet. But, this time cut it into strips that match the length of your bacon. Put the bacon onto the dough strip, cut into 2 or 3 pieces (depending on the length you prefer), and swirl. I used an eggwash on my bacon swirls, but that is optional. Bake at 200C.

Simple Caraway Squares

After cutting squares and strips for my tomato-pesto pillows and bacon swirls, I was left with a lot of uneven end pieces. Now, if you want you can roll them again, but I decided to use them just the way they are. It gives them that rustic charm. I just brushed them with egg wash and sprinkled them with caraway seeds. Instead of caraway seeds, you can use any other seeds or simply sprinkle them with some salt.