Palmeirs, Butterfly Cookies or Elephant Ears

A palmier  is a French pastry in a palm shape or a butterfly shape, sometimes called palm leaves, elephant ears or glasses.

Palmier are made from Puff pastry, Puff pastry is alternating layers of dough and butter. These are much more like cookies, their edges crunchy from caramelizing; the insides flaky and rich. In Pakistan some times called sweet puffs which my family's favourite pastry.

Perfectly made Palmier should be crispy and flaky that's  why you need to be good recipe of Puff pastry or you can use ready made, coz baking  is my hobby so  I like to use my own home made pastry  for these delicate goodies. I've  never attended a pastry class in my life and learned all from daily experience.  I've  tried Palmier lot of times with my home made pastry. 1st time I found my palmier less flaky and they were not too much crispy.  2nd time they were crispy but not flaky. 3rd time they were flaky and crispy but tough  --huh. At least i find a recipe which give me perfect result all time they are light with crisp and lot of  flakes.

For the puff Pastry please check my third last post How to laminate dough for Puff pastry .
 
You will need:
 
Lots of sugar
1 recipe Puff pastry
 
Directions:
 
Start with rolling pastry dough and roll into a big rectangular should be thick about 1/4 inch.
Sprinkle lot of   normal fine sugar on it and roll lightly with rolling pin .
Turn the sugar side of pastry sheet to downward and cut strips of pastry sheet width wise about 1/3 inch
wide but long enough. (to 10 inch)
Start rolling loosely both ends of a strip until reach to center  (don't roll tightly )and lay down these  to a baking try lined with wax paper. Do same with all strips.  arrange on baking try leaving 2 inch space between.

Leave them in freezer for 1/2 an hour and heat up your oven to "210 C" or "400 F" .

Bake for 20 minute then turn these cookies and bake for another 10 minute. Leave to cool on wire rack about one hour.