29 Puff Pastry Recipes for Fancy Without the Fuss

We realize that saying the following puff pastry recipes will make your life all-around better is bold. But frozen puff pastry is buttery, flaky, versatile, and reliable. It exists solely to make you look good. It sits patiently in your freezer for months and months—however long you need it to, really—until you pluck it from those frosty shelves. Then, it quickly and easily becomes breakfast, lunch, dinner—or even a cocktail party appetizer or jaw-dropping brunch dish. It asks nothing of you, save for acknowledgment of its deliciousness with an emphatic “mmmm.”

Now does that statement seem so extreme? No, right? Glad we’re on the same page. Here are our best puff pastry recipes for your “mmmm”-ing pleasure.