The Palmier pastry trend was difficult to miss this year if you have baking in your internet feed! Whether on Tik Tok, Youtube or Instagram it was a plethora of content creators making the two ingredient (maybe 3) Palmier pastry.
Admittedly, my neighborhood was incredibly fortunate to have an authentic French bakery so we have been spoiled! However, as a fan of puff pastry I had to give the Two ingredient version a try.
Two Ingredient
I decided to try the simplest recipe with frozen puff pastry and sugar. Parchment paper was also necessary.
Defrost puff pastry.
Place a piece of parchment paper on counter.
Generously sprinkle sugar on a sheet of parchment paper.
Lay puff pastry dough on sugar. Press into sugar.
Sprinkle top of puff pastry with sugar.
Fold each side of puff pastry (short side) toward the middle.
A log will form.
Cut log into pieces of pastry about 1 inch thick.
Lay on parchment lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
A natural heart shape will appear or if needed, assist the pieces by shaping in a heart with a quick maneuver.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes, begin checking pastry at 10 minutes.
Cool.
So Many Recipes
There are quite a few variations of the Internet Palmier recipe. Each contains puff pastry and sugar, but the variations include making a sweet version, a savory version, cinnamon version, brush with butter version, flip midway through baking version and different baking times and temps.
All are easy! Search two ingredient Palmier recipe and the various versions will appear. The roll puff pastry that is refrigerated will be slightly different than the frozen version regarding the ease of assembling and baking temp/time. Many
Youtube videos are available to demonstrate rolling the pastry into heart shapes.
Palmiers date back to 19th century France as a way to use puff pastry leftovers.
Recommendation
I believe this recipe has potential for a quick sweet or savory treat, if you are a puff pastry fan! Add cinnamon for a quick cinnamon flaky treat. If you have ever had the pleasure of tasting authentic French palmiers then the Internet version is almost adequate! Both versions look flaky, enticing and very similar. However, besides the visual, the comparison of each pastry is in different lanes and difficult to make a direct comparison.
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