Wednesday 7 May 2014

Puff Pastry | Cinnamon Bites


Puff pastry at home. When I was a little one my mom used to prepare a lavish spread on every birthday of mine. And the spread was endless. She would prepare everything from cake,cup cakes, savoury puff pastry to sweet cream rolls. Flacky Puff pastry are one of the remembered part of my childhood.


Method is a little tedious but one can make these sheets & store them in the refrigerators.



Btw, the coffee mug at the background is my favorite off late, available in 6 different colors. You can buy it here .

Moderately difficult
Bake time - 08 min.


Ingredients

FOR THE PUFF PASTRY
  • 03 cups - All purpose flour.
  • 100 grms - Butter ( chilled & cut into cubes ).
  • 1/2 tsp - Salt.
  • 01 tsp - Baking powder.
  • Ice cold water for kneading.
FOR THE FILLING
  • Cinnamon powder.
  • Castor sugar.
  • Butter for brushing.
Method 
  1. Sift flour, baking powder & salt together.
  2. Add butter and rub the mixture well, add just about enough water to make a tough dough.
  3. Cover the bowl with dough with cling film & keep aside in the fridge for 20mins.
  4. Lightly flour your surface and roll the dough into a big circle.
  5. Put the butter in the centre of the pastry and fold over the right and left sides of the circle, overlapping in the middle.
  6. Press the dough with your rolling pin to make it longer and then lightly mark into three portions.Fold the bottom portion up to cover the middle protion and the top portion down.
  7. Press the dough gently on the edges with your rolling pin. 
  8. Roll the dough out to a long & Repeat the folds one more time, cover and chill for 20 mins.
  9. Chill for one hour before using.

To make cinnamon rolls
  • Roll the pastry dough into a thin sheet.
  • Apply melted butter.Sprinkle cinamon & sugar equally all over.
  • Cut long strips.(size of a 12" ruler/scale)
  • Now rolls them(one strip makes 03 rolls)
  • Bake at 180 degrees for 8 mins.
  • Serve at tea time as a perfect snack.


Please do drop in a comment about the recipe & don't forget to leave your blog link, so that i can ckeck out your blog too. 

xx

5 comments:

  1. Awesome .... I so much wanted the puff recipe ;)
    Kappinirvana@blogspot.com

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    1. Hey Alka .. glad that you liked it .
      xxx

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  2. I gonna try it for sure.
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  3. I tried once wid egg bt this one is better n yummier for sure.....will try itthis weekend itself ! Thank u Pri !

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  4. My children all grown now but having grandchildren has awakened my interest in baking. Enjoying your recipes.

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