Baking Chocolate Puffs - How to make Rough Puff Pastry Dough

If you're a fan of melt in your mouth, crispy, flaky, puff pastry desserts and want to learn how to make your very own, check out this how-to video of Lauren, owner of Mamalou Bakeshop creating her Chocolate Puffs. Tucked inside the fast paced time lapse video is a recipe for rough puff pastry that can be used for several of your favorite desserts that need puff pastry or keep watching and see how to add chocolate chips and fold them inside the pastry to make your very own Chocolate Puff!

Recipe for 12 Chocolate Puffs

INGREDIENTS:

4 oz unsalted butter, grated and frozen

6 oz unsalted butter, grated and frozen

24 oz all purpose flour that has been kept in the freezer for a couple of hours

Start with 1 cup ice cold water

1.5 tsp salt

3/4 tsp lemon or lime juice (or white vinegar)

approximately 8 tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 egg

demerara or turbinado sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Combine 4oz frozen butter, flour, salt and combine into crumble
Add lemon juice, then water a little at a time until firm dough forms
Knead 1 minute
Let rest in fridge 5 minutes
Roll rested dough to 9 inch wide by 18 inch rectangle
Add 6 oz to ⅔ of the rectangle
Fold the unbuttered part of the dough over the center third of butter. Then fold the left most ⅓ of dough over to create an envelope/brochure
Turn dough 90 degrees and roll out to another rectangle.
Add remaining 6 oz butter and repeat folding steps.
Turn, roll, and fold 3 more times.
Wrap in plastic wrap and leave in fridge at least 2 hours before using
Preheat oven to 375F
Cut dough in half
Roll first half out to 15 x12 inches
Cut dough to 6 rectangles 5 x 6 inches
Place 1 ts Chocolate Chips in a line to the left of the center of the dough
Fold the left side over the chocolate - Make sure to create a tight seam.
Now place 1 ts chocolate chips to the right of the center
Fold the right side over
Flip dough so seam is down
Do the same with the other half of dough
Add egg wash (1 egg, beaten with 1 TB water) to top of dough
Sprinkle demerara sugar (or raw sugar or turbinado sugar) on top of egg wash
Bake for 20 minutes, then switch pans in oven
Bake for 10 minutes more