Making homemade pastries like pie crust, biscuits, or croissants is a delicate process. To achieve that perfect flaky texture, you have to mix hard butter or another fat into flour to bind the dough ...

An alternative to pressing pastry dough into a tart tin or pie plate is to cut the rolled out dough into shapes to bake and use as lids and platforms to make freeform tarts. The simplest shapes are ...

Get even results when rolling out pastry with our short video taking you through the steps. Lightly dust the work surface with flour. Pick up the just-made pastry and shape it to match the tin. Some ...