I love making baked goods from ready-made puff pastry and find a lot of advantages in this product. So, it can be stored frozen for a long time. This means you can put it in the freezer and use it whenever the opportunity arises. Baking from puff pastry will help out when unexpected guests arrive and there is nothing to offer them for tea. Then the jam puffs can be made in literally half an hour, and most of this time will be spent on baking.
What to make from puff pastry? Yes, anything: a large pie, small pies, sweet puffs, puffs with meat, fish, mushroom filling, etc. But the easiest way, of course, is to make puffs with jam from ready-made puff pastry.
While the dough is frozen, I immediately unroll it and cut it along the folds, leaving the layers for 15-20 minutes. During this time, the dough will expand and become pliable.
I cut the layers into squares and put thick jam in the center of each.
I pinch the squares together like dumplings and place them on a greased baking sheet.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until the top is browned. During the baking process, a little jam will leak out, there’s no way around it.
Sprinkle the puff pastries with powdered sugar and enjoy the fresh, delicious pastries.
- Puff pastry must be thawed in advance. On average, a semi-finished product weighing 500 g may require 2 hours. You can transfer the frozen dough from the freezer to the refrigerator in the evening and then by the morning it will be ready for further use. This is the most gentle defrosting method, which allows you to preserve the quality of the semi-finished product.
Place the thawed dough on a floured table and sprinkle flour on top. It should be rolled out to a thickness of 3-4 mm. This should be done by always moving the rolling pin in one direction: only away from you or only towards yourself. This precaution is necessary to preserve the flaky texture of the dough.
- Next, you should cut the cake into squares measuring 10 by 10 cm. This should also be done carefully so as not to pull the dough. A round pizza cutter or kitchen scissors work best. If you don’t have anything at hand other than a regular knife, then they don’t need to cut, but press the dough.
- After this, fold one square in half diagonally. Then use scissors to make two cuts parallel to the short sides of the triangle, 1 cm away from the edge. The cuts should not be connected.
- After this, the square must be returned to its original state.
- Place the separated strips crosswise.
- Place a teaspoon of apricot jam in the center of the resulting figure.
- In the same way, you need to form and fill the remaining squares of puff pastry with filling. The resulting blanks must be carefully transferred to a baking sheet lined with parchment. You should leave some space between the puffs, as the dough will increase significantly in volume during baking.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. During this time, the dough will rise well and lightly brown.
- The puff pastries must be transferred to a plate until they cool completely. After baking, the filling will be in the cavity. If desired, you can add another spoonful of jam, crushed nuts or pieces of fruit from the jam. Sprinkle the cooled baked goods with powdered sugar. Enjoy the treat with the whole family and serve it with tea or coffee. If you are watching your figure, then remember that the calorie content of jam puffs is quite high and is about 400 Kcal per 100 g of finished baked goods.
Time after time, studying a new recipe, it seems that this is the limit, and you can’t think of anything simpler. But then you again come across a new, even simpler way of preparing a dish you already know, and you simply can’t help but try it - the simplicity of preparation and the potential result are so seductive. For example, puff pastries. Defrost the dough, prepare the filling, form the puff pastry and into the oven. It would seem, what else is there to simplify? Here's the thing: we won't prepare either the dough or the filling. Let’s take everything ready and prepare delicious sweet pastries for tea in just 30 minutes! A package of dough, a jar of thick jam from winter supplies - and all you have to do is form puff pastry puffs with jam. Agree, the recipe is very simple. And how delicious the puff pastries are! Mmm... It's impossible to tear yourself away!
- puff pastry – 500 g,
- thick jam (I used orange jam) – 200 g,
- starch – 3-5 tbsp. l.,
- egg – 1 pc.,
- powdered sugar (optional).
Let's start with the test. Both yeast and yeast-free puff pastry will work for these puff pastries. With the first, the puff pastries will turn out taller, softer and more fluffy, with the second - not so fluffy, crispy and with a more layered structure. The choice is yours. I prefer the yeast-free version. Remove the dough from the packaging and place it on a flat surface lightly dusted with starch. We also lightly dust the top and cover it with something so that the dough does not dry out.
When the dough becomes soft, lightly dust it with starch again and roll it out into a thinner layer. Layer thickness: 2-3 mm. The puff pastries can be of any shape; I make one of the most traditional options - envelopes. We divide the layer into rectangles of equal size. My package contained 2 layers of dough, each of which I rolled into 6 rectangles.
On one half of the rectangles we make cuts (oblique or straight), stepping back from the edge by about 1 cm.
Then we put jam filling on the whole part. I took orange - it is moderately sweet, with a slight sourness, ideal for baking. But absolutely anything will do, the main thing is that it is thick enough so that the sweet filling does not spread over the baking sheet.
We coat the edges of the rectangle with beaten egg - this way the puff pastries will not open at the place of fastening.
And immediately cover the jam filling with a piece of dough with slits. We press the edges first with our fingers, and then, to be sure, we go over them with a fork. If the fork sticks to the dough, dip it in starch.
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To serve, you can sprinkle the puff pastry jam puffs with powdered sugar.
Puff pastries with jam
Option 1: Classic recipe for puff pastry with jam
Jam puffs are one of the most popular types of baked goods. Puff pastry is not as easy to prepare as we would like. Therefore, many housewives use ready-made purchased puff pastry or yeast-free dough. You just need to defrost it and roll it out on a work surface, come up with a filling and mold it. We bake it in the oven, and we get aromatic, tasty and fluffy baked goods that will delight the whole family. We offer several options for jam puffs; they will be of different shapes with additional ingredients.
Ingredients:
- five hundred grams of puff pastry without yeast;
- one chicken yolk;
- two hundred grams of jam;
- two tablespoons of starch;
- flour for dusting the table.
Step-by-step recipe for puff pastry with jam
It’s worth noting right away why starch is indicated in the recipe. It is added when your jam is quite liquid. Starch allows you to thicken the filling so that it does not leak out during baking, without losing its taste.
If your jam is very thick, you don't have to add starch, but it's better to be on the safe side. Both corn and potato will do.
We take out the package of dough from the freezer. Unwrap it and defrost it at room temperature.
Sprinkle a table or large cutting board with a little flour or starch. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a large rectangular layer approximately two to three millimeters thick.
Take a sharp knife and cut the layer into six equal portions. Lightly cut each one in half. On one half we visually draw a square, make through cuts with a knife diagonally from one edge to the other.
Mix the jam with starch into a thick, homogeneous mass. Place the filling on the half of the dough that has no cuts. Cover with the other half and carefully but tightly fasten the edges with your fingertips. You can try to wrap them figuratively with your hands or press them with the tines of a fork.
Break a chicken egg, separate the yolk and beat it with a fork. Take a silicone brush and brush each puff with jam.
Some housewives use a whole egg for lubrication. This does not affect the taste in any way, only the color of the finished baked goods. If you brush it with just yolk, it turns out a little richer.
Line a baking sheet with parchment, carefully lay out the puff pastries and preheat the oven to 200 C.
When the oven starts cooking, put the baked goods inside for fifteen to twenty minutes.
When the timer goes off, remove the baking sheet and evaluate the aroma and appearance of the baked goods. The puff pastries were browned and rose, the filling did not leak out, it remained inside. Amazing! We call our relatives and take a sample.
Option 2: Quick recipe for puff pastry with jam
Puff pastries are made quite quickly from ready-made puff pastry. The dough is rolled out, portions are formed, filled with filling and sent to the oven. If you want to speed up the process, defrost the dough in advance or buy fresh, soft, unfrozen dough.
Ingredients:
- four hundred grams of puff pastry;
- egg;
- one hundred grams of jam;
- one tsp corn starch;
- one tablespoon of powdered sugar.
How to quickly make puff pastry with jam from puff pastry
Roll out the defrosted or fresh dough into a large rectangular layer. This way it will be more convenient for us to divide it into portions for puffs with jam.
The approximate thickness of the layer is a couple of millimeters. Then we measure out squares of approximately seven by seven centimeters and cut them with a sharp knife.
Immediately cover the work surface with baking paper. This will make it more convenient to transfer the finished baked goods to a baking sheet or immediately place them on it.
Place a portion of jam in the center of each layer. If it is a bit runny, add a little starch to it and stir. This way the jam will not leak out during baking.
Break the egg with a fork, carefully brush the edges of the bases, but leave another egg to grease the formed puffs.
Now take the opposite edges of the dough with your fingertips, bring them together and seal them. We bend the remaining two edges slightly inward to form a small partition. This way we get beautiful open envelopes, but the jam remains inside.
Set the oven to preheat to 180 C, grease the puff pastries with the remains of the chicken egg.
Bake for about twenty minutes.
When the baked goods are ready, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Cool the puff pastries completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar. This is how we serve it on the table. To ensure that the powder is distributed evenly, use a sieve or sifter.
Option 3: Curly puff pastries with jam
In this version, we will prepare not simple pastries, but beautiful curly ones. You just need to try a little, do everything as indicated in the recipe. You will get very beautiful elegant puff pastries with jam, just like from a bakery.
Ingredients:
- floors kg puff pastry;
- two hundred grams of any jam;
- two tablespoons of flour for dusting;
- egg.
Step by step recipe
Defrost the dough under natural room conditions. If you have it in plates, it will be even more convenient to work.
Dust the counter with flour and either roll out the dough into a large sheet, then divide into ten centimeter squares, or, if the dough is in sheets, simply cut it to make the portions indicated above.
We fold each base square in half into a triangle. We make cuts on two of the three sides, but do not reach the edges of the dough.
Carefully, so as not to spoil the shape of the blanks, unfold them. It turns out that we turn them back into squares, but we can clearly see the center - it came from the cuts. We again place one edge without a center on the opposite one.
Beat an egg with a fork and brush the center of each base with a silicone brush.
Now we take the edge of the base and overlap it. We make wells from dough. Fill each one in the middle with jam.
Line a baking tray with baking paper, lay out the puff pastries with jam and brush with the remaining chicken egg.
Preheat the oven to 180 C and place the baking sheet on the middle level. Cook for twenty to twenty-five minutes until our baked goods are browned.
After baking in the oven, cool the puff pastries and serve with tea. Although some people also like hot baked goods straight from the oven.
Option 4: Puff pastries with jam and nuts
We already know how to make beautiful curly puff pastries. Let's add some walnuts to them. They go well with any jam and add an interesting flavor.
Ingredients:
- half kg puff pastry;
- one hundred and fifty grams of jam;
- one hundred grams of walnuts;
- egg;
- flour for dusting.
How to cook
It is best to immediately buy the dough, which is divided into large plates, so it will be more convenient to form the blanks.
Thaw the dough and divide into equal squares.
We carefully fold each square in half into a triangle. By the way, if you are not sure about the thickness of the dough sheets, you can roll them out a little. It is important that they are even and identical so that the baked goods turn out appropriate.
We cut each triangle of dough from two edges. Then we turn them into a square again. But we see that we have thin edges and a large center.
We place the free edges crosswise on top of each other and slightly press them with our fingertips. We have consolidated the dough.
Place jam in the middle of each piece. Chop the walnuts with a knife into medium crumbs and sprinkle on top, but only on the filling.
Turn on the oven at 180 C. Break the egg, beat with a fork and brush the edges of the puff pastry with a silicone brush.
We send to the middle level for twenty-five minutes. Serve the finished puff pastries hot, warm or cold.
Option 5: Puff pastries with jam and cottage cheese
Now we suggest preparing delicious puff pastry envelopes with jam and cottage cheese. Not only very tasty, but also healthy.
Ingredients:
- five hundred grams of dough;
- one egg white;
- eight tablespoons of cottage cheese;
- eight teaspoons of jam;
- four table spoons of powder sugar.
Step by step recipe
Let the finished dough defrost. Simply unwrap it and place it on your kitchen counter.
Place cottage cheese in a small bowl. Break the egg, separate the yolk and remove it. Add the egg white to the cottage cheese and stir with a fork until smooth.
Roll out the defrosted soft dough into a large rectangle and cut into eight equal squares.
We cut each of them from the corners to the center, but not to the very end.
Place one tablespoon of curd mixture in the middle of each base and a teaspoon of jam directly on top.
Now we take the edges and fold the triangle in the center. That is, we take one end from each cut, collect it in the center, take the next one and fasten it. First we get a star.
Then we connect the remaining ends and fasten them too. We made beautiful envelopes. It is important to only seal the ends so that the dough rises beautifully when baking.
Place the bases on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Grease with beaten yolk and heat to 200 C.
Bake on medium level for fifteen minutes.
Before serving, cool slightly, sprinkle with powdered sugar through a sieve and serve with tea.
Puff pastry with jam
Many women bake homemade baked goods: pies and pies, buns and cheesecakes, vol-au-vents and kulebyaki - they have long become their signature dishes and are able to win the heart of any, even the most picky man.
And there are a large number of types of dough that women can handle: shortbread, yeast, unleavened, kefir, water, sour cream and whey. But puff pastry is a completely special type of cooking. It requires a lot of time to prepare and sufficient skill. Although experienced housewives can cope with this: many bake homemade cakes, for example, “Napoleon”, which are baked from puff pastry.
But today our food industry has solved this problem: in any supermarket you can buy a package of puff pastry quite inexpensively. Therefore, we suggest you prepare puff pastry with jam from puff pastry without yeast, without trying to knead the puff pastry yourself. This way, you will save your time and effort, but as a result, on the table you will have delicious and aromatic homemade puff pastries that both adults and children love.
First, decide what kind of jam or jam you will bake your puff pastries with. It all depends on your personal preferences: such pastries can be prepared with absolutely any kind of jam, marmalade, marmalade or marmalade. Even the issue of its thickness can be solved with the help of starch. So feel free to take your favorite jam or preserves.
By the way, in the absence of jam, such puff pastries can be prepared with fresh berries or fruits, but in this case you will also need starch so that the sweet filling does not leak out and the pieces of berries are held together.
Puff pastry rolls out very well and you don’t need flour for this, just grease the work surface a little with vegetable oil.
Working with ready-made puff pastry will give you real pleasure, it is so simple and easy, and the result is such that you will simply lick your fingers!
Ingredients
- Yeast-free puff pastry 500 g;
- Yolk 1 pc.;
- Jam 200 ml;
- Starch (potato or corn) – 2 tbsp.
How to make puff pastry puff pastry with jam
First, let's solve the jam issue. If you have thick jam or jam, then in this case you do not need starch. But liquid jam will immediately flow out of the puffs. Therefore, heat it, add starch there and stir well, there should be no lumps. It should now cool completely. When baking puff pastry products, when heated, the jam and starch will turn into a very thick mass, which will remain inside the puff pastry.
Thaw the package of puff pastry and roll it out into a large layer up to 2-3 mm thick.
Cut the layer into 6 even pieces. We, in turn, cut each part in half and make small oblique cuts on one of the halves.
Carefully spread the jam onto part of the puff pastry without making any cuts.
We fasten the edges well, forming a finished puff pastry.
Brush the puff pastries with whipped yolk to make our pastries brown.
As you can see in our photo, the filling did not leak out, and the puff pastry puffs with jam turned out golden, neat and very appetizing.
Also be sure to try making honey puff pastries.
Puff pastry puffs with jam
- Yeast-free puff pastry 450 g
- Jam 400 g
- Sugar 2 tsp.
- Egg yolk 1 pc
- You will need: more than 1 hour
- Geography of the dish: Russian
- Main Ingredient: Yeast-free puff pastry
- Type of dish: Breakfast
Defrost the dough for the puffs and cut them into one of the halves.
Place jam on the uncut part of the dough (I used apple and raspberry)
Place the puff pastries on parchment paper, brush with yolk and sprinkle with sugar.
