French Hearts Recipe
These French heart cookies (or palmiers) are the easiest cookies to bake. Ever! With just 3 ingredients and 12 minutes in the oven, you get shatteringly crisp, golden cookies that taste like they came straight from a Parisian bakery.
Servings: 30 cookies
Calories: 99kcal
Ingredients
- 17.3 oz Puff pastry at room temperature
- 1/3 cup Raw sugar You can use regular granulated sugar too
- 2 tsp Cinnamon powder
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 C / 400 F. Line a baking tray with Silpat or parchment paper.
- Roll out the puff pastry into a rectangle about 14" x 12".
- Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon powder on the dough. Lightly press the sugar and cinnamon into the dough, using a rolling pin.
- Starting with one long side, start rolling the dough tightly until the center. Repeat on the other side.
- Chill the log for at least 20 minutes.
- Cut into 1/4" thick slices and place on the baking tray. Sprinkle some more sugar if you like.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes until the pastry is all puffed up and golden brown in color.
- Transfer the cookies onto a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely before transferring to an air-tight container. Enjoy!
Notes
- Your pastry must be at room temperature when rolling it. So, if it’s frozen, thaw it thoroughly. Cold pastry cracks. Warm pastry rolls beautifully.
- When you roll puff pastry, the butter in it melts. When you chill the rolled log, the butter solidifies again, and that’s what gives the flaky layers.
- Don’t overcrowd the tray. They expand and puff dramatically.
- I recommend keeping an eye on the French palmiers after the 12-minute mark. Each oven is different, and the sugar on the cookies can burn easily.
- Flip halfway if your oven runs hot to get even browning.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 Serving | Calories: 99kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 41mg | Potassium: 11mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.4mg