If your parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to dessert tarts.

Puff pastry is a busy host's best friend. Also known as pâte feuilletée, puff pastry is essentially just laminated dough. Like a croissant, it's flaky, feather-light, and packs big butter flavor ...

If your New Year’s Eve parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to ...

When appetizers matter as much as the main course, these holiday pinwheels and puff pastry bites deliver big flavor with minimal effort. From savory spirals filled with cheesy goodness to sweet and ...

Right now, as the holiday party season continues, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a package of puff pastry. But ...

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

Puff pastry is like a secret weapon for impressing guests without spending all day in the kitchen. Those flaky, golden layers make everything look fancy and taste incredible, even when the recipe ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, I’m not talking about Christmas, which has its own charms, of course. I’m talking about prom, that night when high school kids pretend to be adults by ...

Sausage turnovers (aka pigs in blanket), foreground, are a step up from the usual when wrapped in puffed pastry, on Tuesday Dec., 12, 2017. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Wellington bites sub ...

Sausage turnovers (aka pigs in blanket), foreground, are a step up from the usual when wrapped in puffed pastry, on Tuesday Dec., 12, 2017. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Sausage turnovers (aka pigs ...