These pretty 3-ingredient pastry flowers are delicate, easy to make, and guaranteed to impress at your next brunch or tea. Nothing beats that flaky, buttery pastry with a sweet jam.
Plate these up alongside some mini avocado toast and latte for a pretty and classy brunch menu!
🌟Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Looking to complete your brunch menu – keep it simple with a fancy avocado toast or a twist on one of my favorites, a tomatillo shakshuka! And to drink, serve a kiwi bellini, or a decadent matcha rose latte, or a sweet London fog latte.
🧾 Ingredients in This Recipe
Pro tip: How to defrost puff pastry
Leave the frozen pastry in the refrigerator overnight, then finish defrosting at room temperature for about 30 minutes. You’ll spend about 10 minutes in the morning prepping these, 18-20 minutes in the oven, and the whole house will spell just incredible.
👩🍳 How to Make This Recipe
You will need a baking sheet for this recipe, and parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. The light aluminum is my favorite baking sheet ideal for baking.
STEP 1. Start by preheating your oven to 400F.
STEP 2. Unfold your pastry sheets and lay them down flat. Cut each sheet into 9 equal squares of pastry.
STEP 3. After cutting your puff pastry sheet into squares, spoon 2-3 teaspoons of your chosen jam into the middle of the squares.
STEP 4. Pull the 4 corners of the square together, and pinch until sealed into a ball. Then, take each pastry pouch and place them seam-side down.
STEP 5. Cut 4 slits in a t-pattern without going all the way to the center. Then cut 4 more slits, one in between each of the original 4. This totals 8 slits.
STEP 6. Take two adjacent petals and twist them away from each other. So, in pairs of two, the right petal will twist clockwise and the left counterclockwise. Continue for the other 3 pairs of petals until you create the flower shape.
STEP 7. Place each puff pastry flower on your baking sheet, leaving ample room. It’s normal for some jam to spill out during baking, so make sure your baking sheet is lined with a Silpat or parchment paper. Only place 6 flowers max per baking sheet.
STEP 8. Brush the pastry with the eggwash mixture
STEP 9. Bake the pastry flowers for 18-20 minutes until golden brown, rotating the baking sheet halfway through. Allow to cool before eating.
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3-Ingredient Puff Pastry Flower Recipe
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- 1 package puff pastry 2 sheets
- ⅔ cup jam use my recipe for cardamom quince jam
- 1 egg scrambled with 1 tbsp of water
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400F.
- Unfold your pastry sheets. Cut each sheet into 9 squares.
- Spoon 2-3 tsp of jam onto each of the squares.
- Take a jam-filled squares and place it in your palm. Pinch together the 4 corners to create a dough ball, filled with jam. Place pinched side down on a cutting board. Repeat for the other 8 squares.
- Cut 8 petals in each pastry ball. I like to cut 4 first, 90 degrees apart (keeping the center in tact of course) and then the other 4 cuts are easy to cut evenly.
- Take two adjacent petals and twist them away from each other…the right petal will twist clockwise and the left counterclockwise. Continue for the other 3 pairs of petals. Transfer to a baking sheet. Repeat for the other 8 flowers. 6 max per baking sheet.
- Brush with egg wash.
- Bake 18-20 minutes until golden brown rotating the baking sheet half way through.
can you use regular pastry ?
Hi Faye, regular pastry will still form the flowers, but won’t puff up or remotely yield the same result.
Happy Easter
On your website we always find delicious and interesting recipes … I wish you a lot of health and a lot of hard work Happy Easter to all
Thank you, Helmuth. Wishing you the same!