Quick Puff Pastry Dough

Name: Quick Puff Pastry Dough
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ bread flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 lb cold butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes; 1 1/4 cups cold water

25 Minutes Prep1 Hour 35 Minutes Total
10 Servings
200 Calories per Serving

There’s nothing quite like the buttery, flaky crisp of homemade puff pastry. This pastry dough is simpler to prepare than you might think and opens up a world of possibilities for both savory and sweet recipes.

Ingredient List

1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 lb cold butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 1/4 cups cold water

Preparation

In large bowl, toss flours and salt with butter cubes, making sure all surfaces of butter are covered with flour. Stir water into flour mixture until combined (will be a shaggy ball). Refrigerate dough in bowl, uncovered, 10 minutes.
On heavily floured surface, pat dough out to 6x10-inch rectangle, making sure top and bottom sides of dough are well floured. With floured rolling pin, roll dough out to 8x24-inch rectangle. Brush excess flour off dough with pastry brush. Bring top and bottom shorter edges to almost meet in center, leaving 1-inch gap. Bring top of dough down to bottom edge, letting dough lay loosely on top as folded. Rotate dough rectangle 90 degrees.
Scrape surface and rolling pin of any sticky dough. Heavily flour surface again. With floured rolling pin, roll dough out to 8x24-inch rectangle for second time. Brush excess flour off dough with pastry brush. Bring top and bottom shorter edges to almost meet in center, leaving 1-inch gap. Bring top of dough down to bottom edge, letting dough lay loosely on top as folded. Rotate dough rectangle 90 degrees.
Heavily flour surface again. With floured rolling pin, roll dough to 8x24-inch rectangle for third and final time. Bring top and bottom shorter edges to almost meet in center, leaving 1-inch gap. Bring top of dough down to bottom edge, letting dough lay loosely on top as folded. Rotate dough rectangle 90 degrees for final time.
Place folded dough on cooking parchment paper-lined cookie sheet; cover top lightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate about 1 hour or until firm before using.
Use puff pastry dough in your favorite recipe, or try one of ours: Flaky Apple Turnovers or Fresh Peach and Blueberry Tart.

Tips

Puff pastry has many layers of butter and dough. The process of making the flaky layers comes about through completing "book folds" -- a series of rolling the dough out three times, folding dough into a book fold three times, and rotating the dough 90 degrees each time.
Quick puff pastry will be shaggy and rough looking dough at first, but the more you roll the dough out, the better looking it will be.
Bread flour and all-purpose flour are both used in this recipe to ensure flaky layers.
Keep work surface and rolling pin well-floured to make sure dough does not stick.

Nutrition Information

Servings: 10

Serving size: 1 Serving

Amount per serving (Calories ): 200

Nutrition Facts
Food component / Nutrient	Amount	% Daily Value*
Total Fat	16g	24%
Saturated Fat	10g	49%
Trans Fat	½g	% Value not available
Cholesterol	40mg	14%
Sodium	220mg	9%
Total Carbohydrate	12g	4%
Dietary Fiber	0g	0%
Soluble Fiber	0g	% Value not available
Sugars	0g	% Value not available
Protein	2g	% Value not available
Vitamin D	Value not available	2%
Vitamin E	Value not available	2%
Calcium	Value not available	0%
Iron	Value not available	4%
Potassium	20mg	1%
Thiamin	Value not available	8%
Riboflavin	Value not available	6%
Niacin	Value not available	6%
Vitamin B6	Value not available	0%
Vitamin B12	Value not available	0%
Pantothenic Acid	Value not available	0%
Phosphorus	Value not available	2%
Magnesium	Value not available	0%
Zinc	Value not available	0%
Manganese	Value not available	6%
Selenium	Value not available	8%
Copper	Value not available	0%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.