PALMIERS ♥

Palmiers

 For a change a French dish. This afternoon I made 'palmiers' which is French for leaves of a palm tree. In some sort of way I can see the resemblance, but it is hard to find. You will only need 3 ingredients, and you will be finished within a quater of an hour. What you will need:

- Sugar 
- Cinnamon 
- 4 slices puff pastry 

Ingredients

 Step 1:

First of all pre-heat the oven (200°), therefor you will consume less time. Whilst waiting you can continue preparing your dish. 

Step 2:

It depends whether bought your cinnamon in powder of stick variant. If you bought the powder edition: easy peasy lemon squeezy, you can skip this step. If not, like me, you will first have to grate them till you will have about a tablespoon full of cinnamon powder. 

Cinnamon

 Step 3:

Mix 1 tablespoon of cinnamon with 3 tablespoons of sugar into a mixture. Mingle this as delicate as possible because you don't want to spill anything.

Mixture of sugar and cinnamon

Step 4:

Get the puff pastry out of the freezer and let it defrost for a minute, this will make it a lot easier. Put 4 slices of puff pastry next to each other, to form a giant square. Use a little bit of water and a rolling pin to make them stick to each other, do this really gentel, you don't want your puff pastry to be too thin this will lead to rips in your dough. 

Tip! Use a little bit of flower therefor the pastry won't stick onto your working area. Which saves you a lot of cleaning afterwards. 

Dough 

 Step 5:

Sprinkle your mixture of sugar and cinnamon subtile on the dough and use a rolling pin to gently(!) press the particles into the pastry. Repeat the same process to the other side. 

 Step 6:

When you are finished covering both sides it is time to make it look appetizing. Start off with folding the bottom and top (+/- 2 cm). Continue this process till the two sides meet, and fold it one more time. 

Fold bottom and top 2 cm

Fold it one more time

 Step 7:

Cut of the ends, and cut slices each about 1,5 cm. 

 Step 8:

Put the slices on a baking tray and put them in the oven for 6 minutes. For an even better result you must turn the slices halftime, therefor they will rise and colour evenly. 

Baking tray

Et voila!