24 puff dough recipes

Italian pastry puffs with lemon-scented biscotti dough wrapped around silky vanilla-almond pastry cream. Baked in a cupcake pan until golden, these old-school treats are worth every minute.

Classic French choux pastry with just water, butter, flour, and eggs. The foundation for cream puffs, eclairs, profiteroles, gougeres, and savory gnocchi. Master this one dough, make dozens of desserts.

Crispy fried yam puffs (epok-epok keladi) with a savory prawn and meat stuffing. A popular Malaysian snack with a mashed yam dough shell that fries up golden and light.

Beignets in the French pate a choux style: light, crispy fried puffs made from a simple water-butter-flour-egg dough, served with apricot preserves spiked with brandy. Classic Parisian cafe sweet.

Crustless peach tart with a blended oat custard sweetened with honey and cinnamon. No butter, no pastry dough, and low-fat. The oat batter puffs up golden around tender peach slices.

Hot olive cheese puffs wrap briny green olives in a sharp cheddar dough with butter, flour, and a hit of paprika. Make-ahead friendly, freezer-stable, and the kind of retro appetizer that always disappears first.

Peanut butter cup tarts made with just two ingredients: refrigerated cookie dough and peanut butter cups. The warm cookie puffs then wraps around the candy to form a mini tart shell as it cools.

Deep-fried sticky rice dumplings filled with pork, dried shrimp, and bamboo shoots in a sweet rice flour dough. A crispy, chewy Chinese dim sum classic that puffs up golden brown in the fryer.