( PUFF PASTRY )
WHAT IS PUFF PASTRY
Puff pastry is a light flaky and buttery pastry made from a laminated dough composed of dough and butter. Butter is layered within the dough, creating hundreds of flaky layers, this process is called “lamination”. When the cold butter goes into a hot oven, the steam released causes all those layers to separate and the pastry to puff. The process is simple and easy, but it takes a little patience and a whole lot of love.
Puff pastry can be used in countless different ways. Now just the word Puff pastry scares so many people. So we've simplified the process by breaking it down into simple easy to follow steps providing all the guidance and information you need to make the product your heart desires.
Puff Pastry is readily available in a frozen state in Super Markets, but making it on your own ensures that it's fresh, it's devoid of artificial preservatives and it's yours. Besides that, homemade puff pastry is even flakier, crispier and, browns very well.
The best part of this pastry dough is that you can make it well ahead of time and store it in your refrigerator. It can be even frozen for up to 3 months.
WHAT WILL I LEARN
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11 delicious Pasteries
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Golden flaky puffs
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Savoury Vol-au-vents
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Palmiers
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Cream horns
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Parcels
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Egg puffs
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Blueberry Vol-au-vents
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Phinwheel
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Cheese straws
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Savoury cups
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Creating the perfect puff pastry from scratch.
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Beginning with making a lean dough and then laminating it with butter rolling and folding it several times so that after the whole process you create multiple layers to make your puffs light and flaky.
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How to use the pastry dough to make different delicious treats.
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Understanding oven temperatures
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Storing and shelf life.
BENEFITS
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Sunita Lobo is the founder of Knead N Bake a home bakery set up with one goal in mind to make lives sweeter. She began her career in baking in 2011 and over the last decade has excelled across the entire gamete of bakery and patisserie and confectionary. She has completed a professional pastry chef course from the Academy of Pastry Arts. She has also tutored under a number of international chefs on her journey towards mastering the art of cake decorating.
Through Knead n Bake she focuses on enhancing lives through teaching and uplifting housewives to grow and run businesses of their own. She has also carried out assignments with home-bakers and top industry professionals.
She is also the master of creating and designing cakes for every occasion including weddings, birthdays, baptisms, communions, anniversaries etc. She has also worked with corporates in supplying hampers for events and holiday give-aways.