Has anyone made croissants using Pepperidge Farms Puff Pastry sheets?

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marilynfl

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It's the only source I have (no Trader Joes' in the area) and I'm just not ready to dedicate 14 hours to making laminated dough myself.

I'm hankering for an almond croissant and have a can of paste, a box of pastry, a bag of almond slivers and a craving I just can't get rid of.

 
I don't know how you would do that. Puff pastry has no yeast. Why not do turnovers with fruit &

almonds and a little almond paste?

Plums work well with both. Or mix rum into the paste.

 
that looks so good Joe, thanks for posting. Marilyn, why don't you make

some cookies with the almond paste. Someone brought some wonderful soft cookies with an almond paste center to a party at my daughters on Christmas Eve.. I don't have a recipe but give it "a Google"

 
Thanks all. I think I may try Joe's version, with following question: does my can of almond paste

take the place of the almonds + sugar?

 
That 'cake' always interested me, in my Gaston Lenotre pastry book. He uses almond pastry cream for

the filling.
1/2 c. pastry cream
2/3 c. powdered almonds
2/3 c. scant sugar
1 egg
1. T. cornstarch
2 t. rum
6 T. soft butter.
The tradition that he recounts is that the bean is now replaced by a figurine to be captured by the person to whom it is served and who becomes the king.

It looks to me that you could just loosen your almond paste with some soft butter and rum, then into pastry cream for this method. But also seems to me that using just your almond paste alone would be darn tasty.

 
such a lovely cake for quite easy prep. very different oven temp between the 2 recipes. with puff

pastry, I think I would go with the higher temp.

 
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