Super Slowly Puff Pastry Dessert

This recipe produces a light, flaky as well as delicious pastry. There are several steps to this, but they are ALL EASY to compass as well as I've included lots of extra photos to (hopefully) convince you lot to attempt it.  It actually IS tasty as well as impressive to serve !!

Bottom Layer

1/2  loving cup of COLD butter cutting into cubes
1    loving cup all operate flour
1/4  loving cup COLD water

If you've always made a pie crust, this measuring volition endure a cinch. Using a pastry cutter, cutting the COLD butter into the flour until the mixture is crumbly as well as you lot can run across modest pieces of butter inwards the flour, similar this:

Add the mutual frigidity H2O as well as piece of occupation it into the flour-butter mixture alongside a spoon or fork (your hands are likewise warm for this step). The mixture volition all come upwardly together, but it volition non endure smooth. It should hold back similar this:

Divide dough inwards one-half as well as ringlet into ii log shapes. Transfer the logs to a parchment lined cookie sheet, as well as therefore pat-roll them into 10" x 3" rectangles (I cut mine to the correct shape). Make certain you lot move out enough of room betwixt these rectangles, since they puff a niggling piece baking. They should hold back similar this:

SECOND LAYER

This 2d layer volition endure spread on transcend of the unbaked rectangles:

1 loving cup water
1/2  loving cup butter
1    loving cup all operate flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3  large eggs (room temperature)
1  teaspoon vanilla extract

In a medium size saucepan, convey the H2O as well as butter to a boil. Stir until the butter is melted. Add the flour as well as common salt (all at once) as well as directly stir similar crazy. The mixture volition almost instantly thicken as well as volition move out the sides of the pan inwards a lump. The outset fourth dimension I did this step, I was SURE I had ruined it, but never fear, this is what it is SUPPOSED to do. It volition hold back similar this:

Put the HOT mixture into an electrical mixer as well as shell on medium high for virtually a infinitesimal to cool it downwards a little.

Next, add together the iii eggs, one at a time, mixing good (on medium high) in betwixt each egg. When you lot outset pose the egg in, it volition brand the dough hold back kind of "slimy", never fear, that is what is supposed to hold back like.  Beat it a niggling longer as well as the "slime" volition disappear (repeat alongside the other ii eggs, mixing in the vanilla alongside the concluding egg).  After you lot beat in all 3 eggs, it volition hold back similar this:

Divide the dough inwards one-half as well as using DAMP fingers, press it onto the unbaked rectangles you lot made earlier. It volition hold back similar this:

Bake inwards a PRE-HEATED 350°F  oven for fifty to sixty minutes or until they are a deep golden color. My electrical oven takes 55 minutes as well as looks similar this subsequently it is cooked:

Stir  2/3 loving cup of jam (your favorite flavor) until it is lump costless and spread one-half of it onto each warm pastry, similar this:

Drizzle frosting over jam. Frosting is made of 1/2 loving cup powdered carbohydrate + 1 teaspoon vanilla extract + virtually iv teaspoons of milk. Sprinkle alongside your favorite nuts.

I tried to larn a expert film of the INSIDE of this pastry, but it is difficult to see.  Trust me, it is low-cal every bit air as well as flaky!!

NOTE: If you lot forget to direct maintain the eggs out of the refrigerator (so they tin give the sack come upwardly to room temperature) only pose them inwards a bowl of hot tap H2O for virtually x minutes.