puff pastry
noun
: a pastry dough containing many alternating layers of butter and dough or the light flaky pastry made from it
called also puff paste
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Multifaceted nose with enticing notes of puff pastry cream dusted with cocoa powder, lemon tart and toasted coconut that is electrified by sea spray notes and marked acidity and has an extraordinarily long finish that is exhilarating.
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Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
In Puff Pastry Easily upgrade Brie into a warm appetizer by baking it in a prepared puff pastry from the grocery store.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
The version of galette des rois, or king cake, seen here consists of two layers of puff pastry encasing an almond cream.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It's made with three layers of puff pastry and cream, and is topped with blackberries, raspberries and strawberries.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
In Puff Pastry Easily upgrade Brie into a warm appetizer by baking it in a prepared puff pastry from the grocery store.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
The version of galette des rois, or king cake, seen here consists of two layers of puff pastry encasing an almond cream.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It's made with three layers of puff pastry and cream, and is topped with blackberries, raspberries and strawberries.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Puff pastry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puff%20pastry. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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