The perfect puff pastry recipes

[Hamot Yusuf]

Puff Pastry Recipes​

Are you looking for a delicious addition to your recipe book? Puff pastry could be that extra mouth-watering option you are seeking to prepare for your loved ones. However, before I proceed to list the perfect puff pastry recipes, let's take a quick look into what a puff pastry means. Puff pastry is usually a light and flaky pastry made from a laminated dough. That is, the dough is made by alternating layers of butter and dough until the desired quantity is achieved. Making this sweet delicacy doesn't require a lot of ingredients, as long as you've got butter, salt, water, and flour, you are all set.

The preparation can be a bit tasking since it requires;
1. Wrapping a cold block of butter in dough,
2. Rolling it out,
3. Folding it over; and
4. Repeating this process until you are satisfied with the number of layers of your dough


The recipe for making a tantalizing puff pastry enough to feed two people is as follows:
- 1 and 1/3 cups (166g) all-purpose flour (spoon & leveled), plus more for generously flouring hands, surface, and dough
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (1.5 sticks; 170g) unsalted butter, very cold and cubed
- 6–8 Tablespoons (90-120ml) ice cold water

Note: It is vital to use cold butter and water when preparing this dough. This is what gives it a flaky appearance once the puff pastry is fully baked.

How to make pastry puff recipe:​

To make the pastry puff recipe, watch the video below.

Cream Puff Recipe: How to make cream puffs recipe​

The recipe for cream puff is completely different from the one for puff pastry, so do not mix them up.
The cream puff is a sweet pastry made with choux pastry dough that is baked to form small dome-shaped puffs. Once it is baked, the outer crust becomes golden brown, while the inner crumb is fluffy. The major ingredients used in preparing cream puffs include flour, butter, water, sugar, vanilla pudding, cream, and eggs. Unlike puff pastry, cream puff requires a large amount of eggs.

Below is the recipe used for preparing the cream puff:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 (3.5 ounce) packages of instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs

Watch this to guide you on how to prepare the cream puffs​

Puff pastry dessert recipes​

Here is another puff pastry dessert tutorial

How to make Nigerian puff puff recipe​

Puff Puff is a sweet dessert common to most Nigerian homes and West Africa as a whole. It is a famous street food that is sold on the streets of Nigeria and is loved by both kids and adults. They taste so divine to the extent that you wouldn't dare to stop at one bite. It is a snack that can be eaten any time of the day, and until your stomach is filled.

This delicious delicacy is very easy to prepare and you can choose to either make yours spicy or leave it as it is. Either way, it turns out to be delicious once you get the recipe right.

A recipe for making the perfect Nigerian puff puff is:
1. 600g all-purpose flour
2. 10g fast-action yeast
3. 150g sugar
4. ½ tsp salt
5. 550-650g Lukewarm Water
6. 1-3tbsp chili pepper (substitute with cayenne pepper) could be optional
7. Vegetable oil for frying


Watch this video to guide you on how to prepare the Nigerian puff puff

How to make puff puff recipe​

Here is another recipe for the Nigerian puff puff

- 2 cups (250g) of Plain Flour
- 2 teaspoons of yeast
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup granulated sugar (or to your taste)
- 3 pinches of salt
- Lukewarm water (for mixing)
- Vegetable Oil (for frying)

Note that this recipe doesn't include chili peppers. That's because it is optional and adding it to your puff puff mix is a preference.