They just started carrying Wewalka dough at my local grocery store:
http://wewalka.us/
Got one of each to try:
1. Croissant
2. Puff pastry
3. Bistro pizza dough (thinner crust)
4. Family-style pizza dough (thicker crust)
Neat design...they basically lay out the dough on a piece of parchment paper & then roll it up. All you have to do is unroll & use it! So pizza is basically just adding sauce & toppings and throwing in the oven, croissants is just rolling into shape (just like the Pillsbury pop-cans), and the puff pastry is refrigerated (all of them are, actually), so you don't have to thaw it out like the frozen kind. Looks like I'm having pizza, croissants, and some kind of puff pastry dessert for dinner tonight :awe:
Necro bump:
1. Croissant: Meh. Trader Joe's still has the best. They sell them frozen (8-pack of mini croissants). TJ's frozen minis are the best croissants I have ever had in the states, and you can bake them at home!
3/4. Bistro pizza dough/family-style pizza dough: Did not care for either. It's too easy to make good pizza at home. Case in point:
30-second Food Processor NY pizza dough
12-minute Thin Crust pizza (using a tortilla!)
2. Puff pastry: This is why I bumped the thread. I've been experimenting over the last year with filo (phyllo) dough & puff pastry (like what you use for baklava, apple turnovers, etc. - the puff pastry version poofs out FYI). I haven't bothered making it from scratch due to the time investment (there are some rough-puff recipes out there...but eh. I do have
blitz puff on my to-do list, which is supposed to make a super-flavorful dough that is miles above the store-bought stuff). The Wewalka puff pastry dough comes refrigerated (it's next to the Pillsbury stuff, usually by the butter area in the grocery store) & only requires 10 minutes at room-temp to be ready to use, so it's very convenient to use (unlike the frozen stuff, which takes a bit more time to prep). If you read any of my cooking posts, then you know I like simple recipes that are easy to make (I am a lazy cook). I just recently tried this awesome 2-ingredient nutella puffs recipe:
http://thefoodcharlatan.com/2015/02/10/2-ingredient-nutella-puffs-recipe/
It came out awesome! (although I did them more croissant/turnover style instead of small puffs, because screw bite-size desserts, I want adult-sized food! lol) Tested in both an oven & toaster oven. 15 minutes @ 400F. Basically just let the dough warm up at room temp for 10 minutes, unroll, cut off a rectangle maybe 5" wide, and cut that in half so you have 2 squares (a butter knife works fine, although a pizza slicer is better). Spoon out some nutella in the middle, in a line from corner to corner, leaving about 1/2" before the corner, and then fold the dough over diagonally & give it a little twist so it kind of looks like a croissant shape. Bake until light brown. After taking it out of the oven, I also smear some butter on top & sprinkle some sugar on top of the butter to give some extra sweetness/richness to the outer crust. One of the easiest desserts I've ever made, literally only requires one minute of actual work time. Pastry + nutella 4 lyfe!
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