Sweet Palmiers

Name: Sweet Palmiers
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 sheets puff pastry; 1½ tablespoons sugar

Classic French pastries made with light and flaky puff pastry, coated in sugar and baked until golden and crispy. These elegant cookies are shaped like butterflies or hearts and caramelize beautifully during baking.

24 servings

50 min

Published October 4, 2025

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Ingredients

•4 sheets puff pastry
•1½ tablespoons sugar

Cooking Instructions

1.
Preheat oven to 400°F.
5 min
2.
Sprinkle some sugar on a work surface and cover it with a puff pastry square sheet. Then sprinkle more sugar evenly over pastry sheet and roll it out into a 10-inch square with a rolling pin. Fold in two opposite sides of the pastry sheet square so that they the sides meet in the center. Fold in same sides of the pastry again.
10 min
3.
Fold one half of the pastry over the other. Cut pastry crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Dip cut sides of each piece in sugar and arrange, cut side down, on an ungreased baking sheet. Repeat with three remaining pastry sheets.
15 min
4.
Bake palmiers in batches in middle of oven until golden on bottom, about 12 minutes. Turn over and bake until golden on bottom, 5 to 7 minutes more, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
20 min