Lisa Clark, executive pastry chef at Peppers Artful Events ... a little anxious and nervous on the set. “My mind sort of blacked out for a couple of seconds before everything fell into ...

chilling it for 30 minutes or so helps relax the gluten and set the fat, making the dough manageable and less likely to shrink. Chilling the dough between each stage of making puff pastry is vital.

Grab some puff pastry sheets and set them down to thaw at room temperature for 30 minutes or thaw them in the fridge for at least four hours (an excuse to start early and get excited for a late ...