Tarts look fancy, but they all start with the same thing: a good, sweet shortcrust pastry shell. This easy shortcrust tart dough, also known as pâte sucrée, bakes into a buttery, shortbread-style ...

Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

I remember the first day we made puff pastry in cooking school, when my teacher explained that it’s a laminated dough with 732 layers of dough and butter. The air rises as the dough heats up, creating ...

From crispy cheese sticks to sweet cinnamon rolls, these five easy puff pastry treats prove why a packet in the freezer is ...

Whether you’re walking through a Parisian boulangerie or an American bakery on a Saturday morning, there’s nothing as satisfying as seeing glass display cases overflowing with flaky ham and cheese ...

If you're like me, from time to time, you buy a package of puff pastry to make a special treat, use one sheet and then put the rest in the freezer, thinking you'll bake something else with it someday.

Sometimes you feel like you can’t win with people. Take kitchen shortcuts, for example. You suggest a shortcut or store-bought item to make a dish easier or faster, and you get dinged by purists who ...