A Puff Pastry and Almond Cream kind of Monday

Hello Everyone!

Welcome back from the long weekend. I hope you had a great Easter.  I spent the entire weekend at the beach and loved every second of it :) 

We had our first test today covering the first 3 weeks of bread. I got a 100% .  Yipee!  Very exciting. I'm trying to get us that 3rd "A". ;)

Sorry this is so late. I was having some Internet issues. But here we are! We created puff pastry today and boy oh boy, it is SO true. We are going to gain some mega weight in the next 3 weeks. Tee Hee.  We created the dough for the Puff Pastry and as that sat for a bit, we created the pack which goes inside the puff pastry. The pack consists of 3 POUNDS OF BUTTER! O...M...G... (as everyone says in today's world!)  3 lbs!?! Sheesh... what is a girl to do?  Yup, continue on to making it! haha...

Puff Pastry takes quite some time to make. What we made today should take you about an hour to do.  Once you have created the pack, which is butter mixed in with bread flour, you then roll out your pastry dough in a rectangular shape, big enough to fold in thirds. Here is mine:

You can see it takes up a big part of the table. :)  You then want to take the Butter Pack you created and spread it across the first 2/3rds of the dough, like this:

Make sure to leave at least an inch of space around the perimeter so the butter does not come out once you start to tri-fold the dough.  You will bring the right side of your dough over onto the pack in thirds and then bring the left side of the dough over as well.  It will then look like this:

Place your creation into the cooler for 15 minutes and refold out and put back into the same form, the tri-folds. You will place it back into the cooler for 15 minutes and repeat two more times for a total of 4 folds.

This is as far as we got today! We also created the Almond Cream that we are going to put into the pastries. That is also sitting in the cooler until tomorrow. :)

Tomorrow we will learn how to cut the dough into two different shapes. We will be using this same dough throughout the week to create other different shapes as well with different fillings. I will make sure to take pictures for you! It is a time consuming product. I do hope that it tastes delicious :) :) But its a pastry, so I am sure it will ;)

I hope you have a beautiful week and I will see you back here tomorrow!

Take good care,

Linda