For an alternate way to serve the pigs in a blanket, prepare ice
cold butter puff pastry and bake in cut squares.
Not exact matches
Then, when the
cold dough hits the hot oven, the
butter expands and
puffs out the flour.
2 large apples, sliced 1/3 cup brown sugar, loosely packed 1 tsp cinnamon 3 tbsp of unsalted
butter,
cold, cut into small pieces 1 sheet of
puff pastry 2 - 3 tablespoons apricot jam (optional — for glazing the top of the baked tart)
Light and airy, it does just what pastry flour is meant to do: surround the
cold butter in a recipe smoothly, and then
puff effortlessly when the
cold butter hits the heat of the oven and gives off steam.
The
butter in
puff pastry presents a bit of a challenge: you want it to be
cold so it stays solid and doesn't melt into the dough, but you also need it to be pliable so it can be rolled out without breaking into pieces.
When the
cold butter hits the heat of the oven, the
butter expands and
puffs out the dough surrounding it.