How to Make Pastry from Scratch

It seems that even bakeries are embracing the gourmet craze, and it’s easy to see why: homemade pastries are much better than anything you can buy at the store. With a bit of practice, you can make your own baked goods at home, and just like learning any new skill, it can be a rewarding experience. Plus, when making pastries yourself, you can put any flavor combination you want into them.

How to Make Pastry from Scratch

Baking bread from scratch is beyond easy, whether you’re new to baking or have been baking for years. You don’t need fancy ingredients or a huge kitchen. All you need is a little patience, enthusiasm, and a few tips. You’ll find yourself whipping up bread so fast and with such little effort that you’ll wonder why you haven’t been baking it all your life. Some people love fresh-baked bread, cakes, and pies, while others can’t stand the thought of making home pastries. But making pastries from scratch is incredibly rewarding, and you can make delicious treats that taste just as good as those you can buy at the store. When making pastry can be very intimidating. There is so much that you can do with it, yet no one wants to guess at a recipe. But, it does not have to be this way for you. Making your own pastry can be one of the most rewarding things you can do in your life. The sense of accomplishment you have when making something so complicated and delicious is unbeatable.

Types of Pastry 

Tarte Tatin

Tarte Tatin is a French pastry dish consisting of caramelized apples topped with puff pastry and caramelized sugar. The apples are caramelized in an oven until the sugar is crispy and the apples are tender. Tarte Tatin has become a well-known dessert, though its ingredients can vary from country to country.

Ham and cheese puff pastry square

This pastry is very delicious and easy to make. You will need puff pastry, ham, cheddar cheese, and butter:

1. Cut the puff pastry into a square.
2. Put cheddar cheese inside the puff pastry. Then you put the ham on top of the cheese.
3. Seal the edges. After you remove the puff pastry from the parchment paper, you start to preheat the oven to 425. Then you put the pastry in the oven.
4. Put the pastry in the oven.
5. Bake the pastry for 15 minutes. After that, you take out the puff pastry. 

Puff pastry donut

The puff pastry you used for the dough is a sheet. The sheet is 2 layers. The bottom layer is heavier than the layer on top. The dough is rolled to make the fat layer. The fat layer will be rolled into a circle. The circle is placed into a donut pan. The pastry dough is cut into 6 pieces. The pastry pieces are rolled into a spiral. The spiral is cut into 3 parts. The pastry pieces are folded to form the leaves. The leaves will be placed into a donut pan. The pastry dough will be baked.

Apple turnover

Apple turnover is a pastry of puff pastry filled with apples and covered with sugar. Apple turnover is almost the same as a turnover. A turnover is a pastry filled with pastry dough. The most commonly used pastry dough is puff pastry. A turnover is usually made from puff pastry, but an apple turnover is made from flour dough. 

Especially when made from scratch, pastry doughs taste far better than their store-bought counterparts. And if time is of the essence, home-baked pastry doughs provide the best alternative, as you won’t have to wait long for fresh pastries. You can whip up delicious pastries in your own kitchen any time you feel like it, and the best part is, when you’re done, you’ll have fresh pastries to enjoy.