Puff Pastry Dough

Instructions

1. Cut the 1.5 cups or 2.5 sticks of butter or vegan baking stick into 1/4 inch pieces. Place the pieces on a plate and put back in the fridge while you prep the other ingredients. 

2. Measure out the water and add the salt. Stir and let it dissolve and pop it in the fridge.

3. Using the back of a fork and your hands, work the butter pieces into the flour in a large bowl.  

4. Once the butter or vegan baking sticks are incorporated into the flour fairly well, add the cold water.

5. Continue to work everything together with the back of a fork and clean hands until a dough forms.

6. Add more flour here and there, a tablespoon at a time, if the dough is sticking to the bowl.

7. Flour a clean work surface. Shape dough into a rough rectangle and place between two pieces of plastic wrap. Press dough with rolling pin and then roll back and forth to form a 12 x 18 inch rectangle. Yes, I actually take out a tape measure. Haha! Also, I find my plastic wrap isn’t big enough so I kind of do two sheets together. Two on the bottom overlapping and two on the top, overlapping. This way when you roll out the dough it doesn’t spread out the sides of the plastic wrap.