Puff pastry is your secret weapon for creating quick, show-stopping dishes with ease. Here's how to handle those delicate sheets without tearing them.

These recipes for impressive pastries, sweet and savory, keep it simple with store-bought frozen dough. Delicate layers of phyllo are easier to achieve than you might believe.

The frozen crust chefs prefer . Many of the pastry chefs we spoke with encouraged everyone to try a from-scratch version, ... You can see those flaky layers, and they just melt in your mouth.” ...

Store-bought puff pastry is frozen food pushed to the most elegant degree. Readily found in most supermarkets, it’s a breeze to work with, and, with minimal effort, the dough can be baked into ...

Since quiche is often made with pie crust (some chefs prefer the more crumbly, less flaky shortcrust), you won't have to make changes to a standard quiche recipe if you're using a frozen dough ...

When it comes to flaky, buttery pastry, I’m an equal opportunity eater, but that doesn’t mean that all flaky pastry is the same. Puff pastry and phyllo dough are two important flaky doughs.

Pastry chef Pichet Ong, author of “The Sweet Spot” cookbook and pastry chef of Hiraya Café and Kayu in Washington, D.C., recently tried a frozen pie crust that exceeded expectations.