Palmiers | Palmier Cookies with Puff Pastry

Palmiers are irresistibly delicious, melt-in-mouth crispy, buttery, and flaky biscuits or French pastries prepared using only two ingredients. 

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Palmier is my very old post where I have partnered with Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry to prepare these tasty biscuits using their Puff Pastry Sheets.

Recipe card

Palmiers: Quick and Easy Dessert or Appetizer!

Palmier cookies are light, crispy, flaky, sweet, and shaped like hearts - and they are everyone's favorite! Palmier cookies are also known as pig's ears, palm hearts, elephant ears, and little hearts, which look like palm leaf shapes or butterfly shapes. 

Having some snacks prepared ahead of time comes in handy, especially during holidays, as time is precious, and you do not want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Palmiers (Little hearts) was a famous cookie or biscuit during my childhood, and it was especially distributed as snack treats at birthday parties. 

Even though I bake cookies and other goodies regularly at home and frequently try out new things, I subconsciously assumed that these Little Hearts were complicated to prepare and had never ventured out to even read up about them.

Palmiers with Puff Pastry

But having been addicted to Puff Pastry for the last few months, I decided to prepare Little Hearts using Puff Pastry. Many know these treats as Palmiers, a popular French pastry. I looked it up online, and lo and behold, numerous people had already prepared it. This gave me a lot of confidence.

The "recipe" is so simple! It requires only two ingredients - Puff pastry and sugar. I immediately thawed a puff pastry sheet and baked a Little Heart batch. The outcome was a super hit, and I decided that these would be on my Thanksgiving and Christmas table this year! I can only thank Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry for such a lovely product. I can now make these whenever I have a craving for Little Hearts. The taste and texture were not just good but much better than what I had when I was growing up.

Like I said before, the recipe is super simple. You have to thaw Puff Pastry – roll – fill, and bake. It is a no-fail product and comes out perfect every single time. The baked pastry is super light, crispy, flaky, and filled with deliciousness. The only thing you need to be worried about is how to handle compliments once you bake and serve these treats. Prepare these beauties this holiday season, do it as an appetizer or as a dessert, and surprise your guests.

Always keep a package of Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry in your freezer. Whenever some new inspiration strikes, remove the Puff Pastry Sheets from the freezer, thaw them for a few minutes, and get started on creating the recipes.

Bake these Little Hearts at home for Valentine's Day, and do not forget to share your comments and variations on these biscuits. 

Ingredients

You need puff pastry sheets and sugar to make these cookies.

How to make the best Palmiers?

Making palmiers with puff pastry sheets

• Follow the instructions on the pastry sheets box to thaw the sheets. I thawed them for 45 minutes at room temperature.
• Using a rolling pin, roll about an inch longer on both sides. This will make it crispier.
• Sprinkle some sugar on the working surface. Place the rolled Puff Pastry sheet on it, and gently give it another roll so that sugar adheres to the bottom side of the sheet.
• Sprinkle some more sugar on top of the Puff Pastry Sheets.
• Make a mark at the center as a guide. Fold the ends lengthwise evenly till they meet at the center. Fold it again so that it will look like a log. 
• Cover this in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for about 10 - 15 minutes. This will make it easier to cut evenly.

How to fold and shape palmiers?

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Remove the pastry log from the refrigerator and cut it into 1 cm thick pieces. Brush each piece with water, and roll in some extra sugar.
• Pinch the two free ends to give each a heart shape.
• Place on silicone lined baking sheet 2 inches apart, and bake in preheated oven for 15 – 18 minutes or until golden brown. Remember to flip them halfway through baking time.
• Allow it to cool down completely, and store it in an airtight container.
• Palmier cookies are now ready. Serve and enjoy. Happy Holidays.

Tips

• Keep an eye on cookies when you bake as the sugar caramelizes, and it may turn them dark brown in seconds.

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Note: We originally posted these puff pastry palmier cookies in November 2016. It has now been modified in Jan 2024 with Expert Chef Tips, FAQs, Storage Instructions, etc.