That's where puff pastry comes in. Find it in the frozen aisle of your grocery store, and use it to make a variety of ...

Puff pastry might be the most underrated secret weapon in your freezer. Those golden, buttery layers shatter at the first ...

Classic French pastries, from croissants to Kouign Amann, are famous for their rich, buttery goodness, but infamous for intimidating most home cooks, who shy away from baking them at home. But there ...

Starting in baking can feel intimidating when every recipe seems to assume you already know what you're doing. The good news ...

Take care not to overwork the pastry dough; keep it cold and resist the temptation to make the finished pastry dough perfectly smooth and homogeneous — when you roll it out it should look a little ...

During an episode of Barefoot Contessa, Garten shared her philosophy for entertaining friends which makes it easier for her as the host. “One of my mottos is: my friends don’t have more fun if I spent ...

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It's baking season again—the perfect time to indulge in a pie or two. But whether you have extra scraps of dough after creating your favorite apple pie or you just have an extra store-bought pie crust ...

My basement looks like a Williams-Sonoma store — if Williams-Sonoma had a thrift shop division. I have amassed an extensive collection of cooking implements during my visits to thrift and antique ...

Though it looked gorgeous, this Baked Brie In Puff Pastry was incredibly easy to pull off. I sheepishly admitted just how ...

Rhubarb is often paired with fruit in desserts and Garten has the perfect combination of berries, sugar, rhubarb, and orange flavorings that makes a delicious pie filling. She wrote about the easy but ...