
Palmiers or Elephant Ears
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Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry, thawed
- 1 1/2 cups Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- Gel food coloring of choice
Directions
- For tinted sugar, place 1/2 cup sugar into a baggie and add 3 - 5 drops of the desired color. Mix, shake, and massage sugar for even saturation. Let colored sugar dry overnight on a paper towel.
- To make Palimers, preheat oven to 450°F and line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Sprinkle work area with 1/2 cup sugar and lay puff pastry over top. Cover with the remaining 1/2 cup tinted sugar. Roll puff pastry out to a 12-inch rectangle, pressing sugar into the dough.
- Carefully roll the short ends toward the center. (The dough should look like a butterfly.) Cut 1-inch slices off of the roll and place on a prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for 6 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 400°F and flip cookies over. Continue to bake for another 5 to 6 minutes, watching them carefully so they do not burn.
- Remove from oven and transfer to a wire cooling rack.
- The sugar will be HOT, so be careful when handling right out of the oven.
- Store in an airtight container away from humidity.
Imperial Sugar Insight
Recipe developed for Imperial Sugar by Karen Granrud @PintSizedBaker.
Great simple recipe, it generated the results I was trying to duplicate from a fine French bakery that made the best Palmiers but was not near me sadly.
I noticed one correction though, Recipe says cut in 1 inch wide pieces, that is way too wide, 1/2 inch at most otherwise their don't cook all the way through.
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