Use this in-depth tutorial to learn how to make homemade berry turnovers with a from-scratch puff pastry variation and a jammy mixed berry filling. The pastry dough comes together using a “rough puff” method where you carefully work butter into your dry ingredients and then fold and flatten the dough many times to create countless flaky layers. Unlike the breakfast pastries dough, this dough does not require any yeast and unlike croissants and traditional puff pastry, this dough does not require laminating with a separate layer of butter. Rather, the layers and crisp flakiness come from the particular mixing and folding methods. The turnovers are lightly sweetened and perfect for dessert or alongside a cup of coffee.
Step-by-step photos are below the written recipe.
Using this simplified method and a handful of basic ingredients, you’ll be amazed that you can make puff pastry from scratch within just a few hours. I’m still stunned with this outcome! And after you master these flaky berry turnovers, you’ll enjoy using this dough wherever you use a single pie crust or store-bought puff pastry.
Berry Turnovers Details
- Flavor: These berry turnovers are like mixed berry hand pies, but with a crispy, airy, and buttery dough. I would actually compare these more to store-bought Toaster Strudels but 100x better because they’re flakier, crispier, homemade, and not nearly as sweet. Great for breakfast or dessert! Vanilla icing is optional, but it’s a wonderful finishing touch, especially since these aren’t overly sweet in the first place. Each bite is mostly flaky dough with just a touch of berry filling. (Don’t want to over-fill those turnovers!)
- Texture: You know when you bite into golden brown baked puff pastry and you actually hear that loud CRISP? The layers crackle, pop, and quite frankly, make a big old mess on your fingers and plate? That’s exactly what you’ll experience with these homemade berry turnovers. This pastry is one of the FLAKIEST doughs I’ve ever worked with and comes close to croissant bread territory. (But made in a fraction of the time!) Pair this buttery pastry with a jammy berry filling and you’ll have a professional bakery-style treat made in the comfort of your home.
- Ease: I categorize this as an intermediate baking recipe. While it’s not nearly as involved as homemade croissants, it’s certainly not as easy as using store-bought frozen puff pastry like we do in this easy apple turnovers recipe. You need to flatten and fold the dough 6x, but there’s no chilling between each time so the recipe moves quicker than traditional homemade puff pastry.
- Time: The berry filling comes together in minutes over the stove, but the puff pastry will take you a few hours since there’s about 2-3 hours of chill time required. By this time the berry filling will have cooled down and you’ll be all set to shape, fill, and bake those irresistible turnovers. Set aside an afternoon for this fun baking project!
What is Rough Puff Pastry?
Have you ever heard of “rough puff” pastry? It’s become a really popular method with professionals and home bakers because it produces bakery-style puff pastry with oodles of buttery, flaky layers. Cookbook author and chef Claire Saffitz has a wonderful recipe for it and the term “rough puff” is often used on The Great British Bake Off! The trick is to work large pieces of cold butter into dry ingredients (flour and often a bit of sugar and salt), and hydrate it all with ice cold water. Sometimes bakers grate butter into the mix or use a food processor. There’s lots of ways to make rough puff pastry.
With this recipe, I stick with cold cubes of butter and use my hands to rub the butter into the flour mixture. Your hands are your best tool and method here because it’s nearly impossible to over-mix the dough this way. If the dough is over-mixed and you break down the butter too much, you’ll lose layers.
- Can I use a food processor, pastry cutter, or other mixer? I do not recommend it. These tools slice down the butter too much and you’ll lose a lot of flaky layers. I tried and it’s not worth it because the result is closer to a greasy pie dough than a layered puff pastry. (Still good, but not the goal here.)
How Is This Different From Pie Crust and Yeasted Pastry Dough?
Pie crust, while buttery and flaky, is not nearly as light, doughy, and crisp as this shortcut puff pastry. Yeasted pastry dough, such as something we can use for croissants or a pastry braid, contain yeast. This recipe simply relies on big chunks of cold butter (lots of it) and folding.
Rolling & Folding the Dough
After you prepare the dough and chill it in the refrigerator, you will begin rolling it out with a rolling pin and folding it like a business letter, rolling it out again, folding again, and so on. You will roll + fold it a total of 6 times.
The photo below shows what the center of your dough looks like after all the rolling and folding. *Note that I sliced a sliver off the end so I could show you this!
Just 5 Ingredients in the Dough
This shortcut pastry dough comes together with flour, sugar, salt, cold butter, and cold water.
- Why do the butter and water have to be cold? It’s important for the butter to stay cold so it doesn’t melt and soak up all the flour. We want the butter to stay solidified as we roll, shape, fold, and flatten this dough because if it melts before baking, you lose all the flakes. Game over. You see, when the butter melts in the oven, it creates steam and that steam separates the dough into multiple flaky layers. Warm fat will lend a much denser, flatter turnover.
The dough requires 2 separate refrigeration steps, but the 2nd one is only 15 minutes. You can easily make this dough in a few hours or over the course of 2 days. I always appreciate make-ahead dough where you have plenty of options in terms of timing. You can also freeze the dough, too. (See recipe below.) After both refrigeration steps, you can use this dough in many recipes such as these turnovers, butternut squash tart, cranberry brie puff pastry tarts, mushroom tarts, or even these homemade cinnamon palmiers.
Homemade Berry Turnovers Filling
This thickened berry filling is adapted from these strawberry sauce and blueberry sauce recipes. I reduced it down so we have just enough for the turnover recipe below. It’s sweet like jam with big chunks of delicious berries. Feel free to use frozen berries, too. You could also use the filling from these caramel apple turnovers and top them with salted caramel for an extra special treat.
Tip: Make sure it cools completely before using as the filling in your turnovers. My recipe below works this into the instructions.
See Your Turnovers!
Many readers tried this recipe as part of a baking challenge! Feel free to email or share your recipe photos with us on social media. 🙂
Lots of photos below the recipe!
PrintHomemade Berry Turnovers
- Prep Time: 3 hours, 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 4 hours
- Yield: 9 turnovers
- Category: Pastries
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
These homemade berry turnovers use a shortcut version of traditional puff pastry dough that’s often referred to as rough puff pastry. Each bite is mostly flaky dough with just a touch of berry filling. Make sure the butter is very cold before beginning the dough.
Ingredients
Berry Filling
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon warm water
- 1 cup (about 150g) mixed berries (I use 1/2 cup blueberries, 1/4 cup halved blackberries, 1/4 cup chopped strawberries)
- 1 and 1/2 Tablespoons (18g) granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Dough
- 1 and 1/3 cups (166g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled), plus more for generously flouring hands, surface, and dough
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup (12 Tbsp; 170g) unsalted butter, very cold and cubed
- 6–8 Tablespoons (90-120ml) ice cold water
Egg Wash + Topping
- 1 large egg*
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) milk
- optional: coarse sugar for topping
- optional: vanilla icing
Instructions
- Make the filling first so it has time to cool: Whisk the cornstarch and water together until all the cornstarch has dissolved. (I just use a fork to mix–very easy.) Place the berries, sugar, cornstarch mixture, and lemon juice into a small saucepan over medium heat. Using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, stir the mixture as it cooks. Break up some of the berries as you stir. Bring it to a simmer and allow to simmer for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove pan from the heat and cool completely. The mixture will thicken as it cools. Once cool, filling can be covered and refrigerated for up to 5 days before using. Makes 3/4 cup of filling.
- Make the dough: Whisk the flour, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Place the cold and cubed butter on top. Gently toss the flour and butter together with your hands, and then briefly rub the butter into the flour to begin combining them, as you can see in the video tutorial below. You do not want to break down the butter too much in this step. This step is only possible if the butter is very cold because if the butter is warm, you’ll end up with paste. I do not recommend a food processor, pastry cutter, or mixer for this step because it will break down the butter too much.
- At this point, the butter is still in large cubes/chunks. Begin adding the ice cold water 1 Tablespoon (15ml) at a time until dough forms 1 large shaggy clump in your bowl. Use your hands to toss the mixture together after you add each Tablespoon. (I usually start with 2 Tablespoons (30ml) of water before I begin tossing together.) You can use a spatula or spoon for tossing, but I really do recommend your hands so you get a good feel of the dough. As the dough begins to hydrate after about 4 Tablespoons (60ml) of water, you can start lightly squeezing or clumping the dough together with your hands to help bring it together. Mixture will still be very shaggy, as you can see in the video and photos below. If your dough feels sticky and wet before adding 6 Tablespoons of water, your butter was likely too warm—you can continue with the recipe, but the dough will not be as flaky.
- Pour the shaggy clump of dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. There will still be large chunks of butter at this point and that’s a good thing. Begin patting the dough down with lightly floured hands until it’s 3/4 – 1 inch thick, about a 5×8 inch rectangle. Fold the dough into thirds as if you were folding a business letter. Use your hands to gently flatten and smooth out any cracks in your dough. Wrap it up tightly in plastic wrap, parchment paper, or aluminum foil, or place into any tightly sealed container.
- 1st refrigeration: Refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours and up to 24 hours.
- Roll & Fold: Take the dough out of the refrigerator to begin the “rolling and folding” process. If the dough chilled for longer than about 3 hours, it’s likely very stiff so let it rest for about 5 minutes before you begin rolling. Lightly flour a work surface. The dough gets sticky, so make sure you have more flour nearby as you roll and fold. Use your hands to gently flatten the dough into a small square. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a 6 inch wide and 12 inch tall rectangle that’s 1/2 inch thick. The exact dimensions are not important, but the thickness is. As you roll, it’s best to flip the dough over once or twice to make sure it’s not sticking to your work surface. Lightly flour your work surface as needed. Fold the rectangle into thirds as if it were a business letter. (See photos and video tutorial.) Turn it clockwise or counter clockwise and roll it out into a 6×12 inch 1/2 inch thick rectangle again. Then, fold into thirds again. Turn it clockwise or counter clockwise. You’ll repeat rolling and folding 4 more times for a total of 6 times.
- 2nd Refrigeration: Wrap up/seal tightly and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes and up to 24 hours. You can also freeze the dough at this point. See freezing instructions.
- Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Rimmed baking sheets are best because butter may leak from the dough as it bakes. If you don’t have rimmed baking sheets, when it’s time to preheat the oven, place another baking sheet on the oven rack below to catch any butter that may drip.
- Take the dough out of the refrigerator to begin the shaping steps. Lightly flour a work surface. Using a rolling pin, roll dough into a 12-inch square. Using a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut into 9 4-inch squares. Transfer squares to prepared baking sheets. (4 on one, 5 on the other.)
- Spoon 1 heaping Tablespoon of filling into the center of each square. Fold one corner over the filling to make a triangle. If some chunky filling has seeped out, use a fork to push it back in if you can. Using a fork, crimp the edges of the turnovers together to seal. If the dough has become too warm and sticky to crimp, refrigerate the triangles for 10 minutes. You want to make sure you have a tightly sealed turnover to help prevent filling from spilling out in the oven.
- Chill the shaped turnovers in the refrigerator, covered or uncovered, for at least 15 minutes and up to 1 hour (or freeze, see freezing instructions below). You can preheat the oven and make the egg wash (next steps) as they finish up chilling.
- Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C).
- Egg Wash: Whisk the egg and milk together. Brush on each turnover. Cut 3 slits into the tops of each to allow steam to escape. If desired, sprinkle with coarse sugar.
- Bake for 22-25 minutes or until golden brown on top and around the edges. Some butter may leak from the dough, that’s completely normal and expected. Feel free to remove the baking sheets from the oven halfway through baking and brush the dough with any of the leaking butter, then place back in the oven to finish baking. (That’s what I do!)
- Remove baked turnovers from the oven. Cool for at least 5 minutes before icing/serving. Centers will be hot.
- Drizzle with vanilla icing if desired.
- Cover leftover iced or un-iced turnovers and store at room temperature for 1 day or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Or you can freeze them for up to 3 months. Thaw before serving. Before enjoying, feel free to reheat leftover iced or un-iced turnovers in the microwave for a few seconds until warmed.
Notes
- Make Ahead & Freezing Instructions: You can make the filling up to 5 days ahead of time. See the end of step 1. For the dough, prepare as instructed in steps 2-4. At this point the dough can be refrigerated up to 24 hours. You can also prepare the dough through step 6. At this point the dough can be refrigerated for up to another 24 hours. During or after this second chilling time, you could also freeze the dough for up to 1 month. (I don’t recommend freezing the dough before the rolling and folding step.) Thaw overnight in the refrigerator, then continue with step 8. In step 11, you can cover and freeze the shaped turnovers for up to 1 month. Thaw in the refrigerator, then continue with step 12.
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- Mixed Berry Filling: The ratios I list above are what I find work best, but feel free to substitute in raspberries. You can use all blueberries, all halved blackberries, or all chopped strawberries instead. Raspberries are very fragile and juicy, so I don’t recommend using all raspberries for this filling. You can use frozen berries (don’t thaw) with no changes to the recipe.
- Double Batch: The filling and dough recipe can easily be doubled. In step 4, make sure you’re patting the dough to be about 3/4 – 1 inch thick. In step 6, roll out to 1/2 inch thick. The dimensions in both of these steps doesn’t matter much, but the thickness does. In step 9, divide dough in half before rolling out into 2 separate 12-inch squares. Continue with the recipe as written.
- Other Uses For This Dough: After the dough has chilled in step 7, it’s ready to shape however you want. This recipe makes around 1 pound of dough, which is enough for one 9-inch tart or pie. If your pie or tart recipe requires par-baking with pie weights, I still recommend using them with this dough. I would follow all of the same instructions in your recipe, just switching out the dough to this. After step 7, roll it out to a 12 inch circle and use it as the topping for this skillet pot pie. Or after step 7, roll it out to a 12 inch circle and use it as the bottom crust for quiche—par-bake and dock the crust with a fork as instructed in the quiche recipe. Or after step 7, roll it out to a 10×14 inch rectangle and follow the recipe for honey pear tart.
- Chilling shaped turnovers: Chilling the shaped turnovers in the refrigerator before baking them helps them maintain their shape in the oven. Remember, cold pastry dough is best. I usually refrigerate them for 15 minutes as the oven preheats. If you’re nervous to chill the baking sheets in the refrigerator then bake them (which can cause warping), you have two other options. You can simply assemble the turnovers on parchment paper or silicone baking mats, lift the parchment/baking mat as a whole and place on another baking sheet or directly onto a shelf in the refrigerator. After chilling, carefully lift up and place the entire parchment/baking mat onto the baking sheets for baking. Or you can use a thin spatula and very carefully transfer the assembled unbaked pastries to a large plate to chill.
- Egg Wash: An egg wash promises that golden sheen on your pastries. You can skip the egg and use a total of 3 Tablespoons (45ml) milk (any kind, dairy or nondairy) instead.
Detailed Explanations & Step-by-Step Photos
The following photos show the bowl of dry ingredients with the cold and cubed butter on top. In the right photo, you can see me gently tossing the flour and butter together. In this step, I’m briefly/barely rubbing the butter into the flour to start combining them. This step is only possible if the butter is very cold because if the butter is warm, you’ll end up with paste.
At this point, as you can see in the photo on the left below, the butter is still in large cubes/chunks. That’s great! Now let’s add the ice cold water 1 Tablespoon at a time, using our hands to toss it all together. (Note that I usually start with 2 Tablespoons of water before I begin tossing together.) You can use a spatula or spoon for tossing, but I really do recommend your hands so you get a good feel of the dough.
Photo below left: Continue adding the ice cold water and tossing the mixture together after each has been added. As the dough begins to hydrate after about 4 Tablespoons of water, you can start lightly squeezing or clumping the dough together with your hands to help bring it together. Mixture will still be very shaggy, as you can see.
See the photo below on the right? You only need 6-8 Tablespoons of ice cold water to get to this point. Do not add any more or any less. If your dough reaches this point before adding 6 Tablespoons of water, your butter was likely too warm. You can continue with the recipe with less water, but the dough will not be as flaky.
Pour the shaggy clump of dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, as you can see in the photo on the left below. There will still be large chunks of butter. That’s great! Begin patting it down with your hands until it’s about 3/4 – 1 inch thick, about a 5×8 inch rectangle:
As shown in the photos below, fold the dough into thirds as if you were folding a business letter. This is exactly how we fold biscuits dough, too!
1st refrigeration: Now use your hands to gently flatten and smooth out any cracks in your dough “business letter” then wrap it in plastic wrap, aluminum foil, parchment paper, or place in a sealed container, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to 24 hours.
Now it’s time for the rolling pin. Remove dough from the refrigerator and begin rolling out.
You’re going for a 1/2 inch thick, about a 6 inch wide and 12 inch tall rectangle. The exact dimensions are not important, but the thickness is. Fold the rectangle into thirds like a business letter:
Turn it clockwise or counter clockwise, then grab your rolling pin again:
Repeat this 5 more times, for a total of 6 rolling out + folding sessions. After the 6th time, wrap the dough up again and chill for at least 15 minutes and up to 24 hours.
Success Tip: If the dough “business letter” is so thick or impossible to roll out, cover it with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest for 5 minutes before trying again. The butter just needs to slightly soften. Lightly flour your work surface whenever necessary.
Now the dough is packed with layers upon layers of buttery dough. Roll it out to a 12-inch square. Cut into 9 4-inch squares.
Place the squares onto 2 lined baking sheets. Place 1 heaping Tablespoon of berry filling in the center of each.
Fold over to create a triangle. Some filling is bound to leak out. Don’t worry about it! Crimp edges with a fork. If dough has gotten too soft at this point and the dough is too sticky to crimp shut, stop and refrigerate everything for 10 minutes. You want to make sure you have a tightly sealed turnover to help prevent it from spilling out in the oven.
After shaping each turnover and crimping the edges, I strongly recommend refrigerating them for at least 15 minutes as you preheat the oven and make your egg wash. This helps guarantee they will hold shape.
Cut slits into the tops of shaped turnovers and brush with egg wash (egg + milk or just use milk). Sprinkle with coarse sugar—I usually use Sugar in the Raw or these coarse sugar sprinkles, both of which can be found in the baking aisle of major grocery stores.
Bake until golden brown. Butter will definitely leak from this dough, so don’t get nervous if you see that happening in the oven.
This is my first participation and certainly not the last! It was challenging, fun, and the recipe was delicious. The step by step instructions were clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
Loved this recipe – it’s perfect for winter in Australia. The puff pastry was so easy to make and the turnovers were delicious for days. Can’t wait for next month!
Like many reviewers this was my first time with rough puff pastry and wow was it a delicious success. I’ve made Sally’s pie dough several times so I had that past experience. I actually found this dough much easier to work with since it was more pliable and I was less nervous about the dough tearing. Sally’s detailed instructions and video were extremely helpful. I topped mine with the vanilla frosting and even included rainbow sparkling sugar for a fun touch. This rough puff pastry brought such an amazing flavor/texture that I now might even try Sally’s pop-tart recipe with rough puff instead 🙂
I would totally be making these right now, but the heat wave in Alberta is just too much!! They look amazing and I’ll try them ASAP 🙂
I was nervous to try making a rough puff pastry, but they turned out delicious! The turnover was so flaky and flavorful. I used a mix of strawberries and blueberries for the filling and it turned out great.
This was my first time making puff pastry and it turn out great! Thanks for the great recipe. The only thing I would note is that since it was so warm out, I did all the chills for the maximum time, especially the last one, and I didn’t have any butter leak out.
It was such a messy item to bake but it was delicious. Mine came out small so I guess I should have rolled the dough out more. Didn’t want too thin of a pastry but then filling, folding and crimping was an absolute mess. I had to remove some of the filling to fold it. This was a very time consuming challenge and not my favorite one to make but glad I made it and completed the challenge.
These were so good! I actually made them with cherries instead of berries. We also made them into squares because it was easier to keep all that good filling inside! They kind of look like pop tarts!
Wow! This recipe was a huge hit with my family, and my first attempt at making puff pastry. The instructions and video made it so much easier for me to accomplish, and it’s definitely one of those times I felt proud for what I was able to make! Thanks so much for a fun challenge and recipe!
Such a great intro to rough puff with fantastic results: tart, flaky, crunchy. It is certainly time consuming, but so good!
I love this recipe! I was very impressed with all the flaky layers and I had fun making the dough. I’m already planning on making it again with maybe a cinnamon sugar filling or apple!
This was a great challenge – and recipe. Watched the video and reviewed the photos – that gives a little extra confidence. Great instructions for the dough – I was very pleased with how mine turned out. Used Strawberries and Blueberries. My filling never thickened so I strained out the extra “juice.” I would probably check them at 18 minutes next time – they were a little overdone for me.
Big winner in this house – looking forward to making them again! Thanks Sally!
Another baking fear conquered… pastry! I found the recipe very accessible and the video tutorial and step-by-step photos extremely helpful. My only difficulty was judging when the bake was done. Because of the egg wash my turnovers were beautifully golden brown at the 22 min mark, so I pulled them out. Upon eating them, the pastry was a little underdone inside. They probably could have done with the extra 3 mins but because they were getting dark I panicked and pulled them out. Any recommendations on judging for accurate doneness?
We’re so glad you enjoyed these turnovers! You can try gently cutting into a corner or the middle of one of the turnovers to ensure the middle is fully baked. Hope this helps for next time!
I’ll be making these for a birthday this week. Could I make them in a smaller size? What would the adjusted square size, filling amount, and bake time be? Thank you so much–I’m really excited to try these!
Hi Puja, we haven’t tried a smaller size of these, but you can certainly give it a shot. Instead of cutting into nine squares, you can cut them into more and use less filling in each. The bake time will be shorter. Just be sure that they’re not too small so that it becomes difficult to fold them and crimp them together. Hope this helps and let us know how it goes for you!
This was my first attempt at making Puff Pastry! I made the mistake of breaking up the butter into my batter but it still turned out well. One tip…don’t skip out on the sugar. I did decrease the sugar content ((I know…there isn’t too much sugar in the first place in the recipe) and it was not sweet enough. Therefore, I had to make some icing to fix it up.
I made blueberry turnovers and they were delicious! I made these over the course of 3 days. I brought them to work and my co-workers loved them!
These were delicious! My husband and I wanted to eat them all the first day! Really great directions with photos and video were very helpful! Made the process very easy.
The recipe turned out delicious! It was easy to follow, and I managed to bake 9 yummy turnovers. My only issue was that I fell short on the amount of filling I made. So, I had to make an extra batch. Other than that, I have zero complaints! Definitely recommend to those with extra fruit sitting in their fridge ☺️
The recipe was easy to follow, the turnovers were delicious, and it was a great way to use up some freshly picked berries! We had just gotten some blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, so I used that. Some filling did leak out when I was closing them, but it turned out well in the end. And it was nice to be able to break it up in a couple places.
This recipe is absolutely divine! The rough puff was more simple to make than I ever would have guessed. It’s super flaky and buttery – the perfect vehicle for the sweet, and slightly tart, berry filling (I used frozen berries). This dessert was a hit at our family BBQ tonight and I’m thinking it’ll be one we make for years to come. Thanks, Sally!
My berry turnovers turned out so good! I’m very please with this recipe. It wasn’t first time attempting a rough puff, and it was a success.
I love rough puff pastry. Its so easy to make and tastes just as good. I doubled the recipe and made 3 flavors… Strawberry, apple/cherry, and sausage/apple/potato with sage. I’m currently reducing my sugar intake…so it was fun to be able to adapt this recipe to a savory application. It takes a little time so its not an instant craving fix so to speak…however..it is worth the wait. 🙂
Thank you Sally for this recipe!! The video and extra details were so helpful! It was my first time trying rough puff pastry and it turned out beautifully! If you follow Sally’s directions exactly the way it’s written you can not go wrong!!!
This puff pastry is amazing and so easy! I caution anyone if they use jam as the filling (trying to use up what was in the fridge) not to overfill them because the jam will leak out. Even still, there are none left on the plate. And my husband has requests for more things with this dough.
Sometimes I make something and I say, “wow, I can’t believe I made this!” This is true for this one! I couldn’t believe how such an amazing flaky texture was created with such ease! As always, Sally’s recipes are easy to follow, like this one! And the filling is delicious! Will definitely make it again and again!
I really liked that this recipe used mostly natural sugar from fruit! I made strawberry filling and had a little trouble with the pastry dough (stickiness, etc.), but I suspect that to be due to the fact that my house was around 80 degrees, causing fast melting of the butter. Some of my filling leaked out of my steam vents, but all in all, I’m still very pleased with the results. Thank you for the work put in to making this recipe possible!
Excellent Sally! Sally makes baking so easy with her instructions for any level baker. The fact that she is self-taught is an inspiration. Never would I have tackled puff pastry if it weren’t part of the bake for this month’s challenge. I do wish I had used more hardy berries as my filling was a bit thin but it was still delicious. I feel so proud knowing my first attempt at a rough puff pastry was a success. I may even do more rough puff down the road.
I can’t believe how simple making this rough puff was! The instructions, video, and step by step photos were super helpful and really helped to demystify the process! I had never made rough puff before and I’m glad I tried it. The turnovers turned out great, very flaky and I even got a lot of layers. I used fresh cherries for the filling because I had a lot on hand and turned out great. Would definitely recommend this recipe, especially if you’re new to rough puff!
After watched “The Great British Bake Off” I have been wanting to try rough puff pastry. I saw this recipe and couldn’t wait to try it! These are AMAZING! I was surprised how easy it was to make the rough puff pastry and I cannot wait to make it these again. I used spelt flour in place of all-purpose flour and had zero issues. I highly recommend this recipe!
This is an amazing recipe! I used fresh cherries for the filling, and the pastry was so flakey with amazing butter flavor! Recipe was easy to
Follow and easy enough, just time consuming but expected if one is going to attempt to make homemade puff pastry!! Will make again and again!!!
This was a delicious recipe and my husband was very impressed! The rough puff was not as challenging as I anticipated and the pay off was worth it. I used the egg wash to help seal the turnovers and I would make a little more of the berry filling next time since I did not have enough for a heaping tablespoon in each turnover.