Place 1 cup flour in a medium bowl and use a pastry blender to cut in ½ cup softened butter (or pull 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite direction), until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Puff pastry is hands down one of the best shortcuts in baking: it does all the heavy lifting while you get to look like a ...

We call it the Puffle. A Puffle is a stuffed waffle made from store-bought puff pastry, filled with chocolate (or almond butter, or ham and cheese), and cooked to golden, croissantlike flakiness. In ...

As long as you have a packet of puff pastry in your fridge or freezer, you have a rather impressive breakfast option at your fingertips. Swap in any flavoured jam you fancy. MAKES 8 plain flour, for ...

Make marvellous comfort food – and save on the washing up – with these recipes from the Hairy Bikers’ new cookbook. Fruit tarts are so easy to make with ready-rolled puff pastry and we get the ...