How to make Palmiers | Only TWO Ingredients!!

Made with two simple ingredients and baked in only 15 minutes, this Palmiers recipe is super simple! Light, airy, and buttery, these palmier cookies will melt in your mouth. Perfectly sweet and crunchy, your family will think these cookies were from a bakery.

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[Zophia.]

I was raised in mexico and we call those Orejas (ears). They are super common in bakeries in mexico. I used to get them all the time when I was a kid!! Thanks for this amazing recipe 🥰

[cathyobrien]

My favorite French pastry. When I go visit my sister in Paris we always sample many to find the best; caramelization and flakiness. My favorite are at the little bakery from Tour d'Argent.

[mommaskitchen]

Making these right now
Waiting for the 30 mins freeze
And us Cubans call them “Palmeras”
As a child I always had one with mom when we went to the Cuban bakeries in North Jersey :) thank you for the memories

[londonguyinstockholm]

Hi John!
I think that the parchment paper wicks away the moisture from the pastry whereas the silicon traps it. The moisture combines witht the sugar and leads to ’goo’! Cinammon or pumpkin spice might be a nice seasonal addition to the sugar.
Here in Sweden we can buy vanilla sugar (just regular sugar that’s been infused with vanilla) that would be a great way to ramp up the flavour without changing the two ingredient challenge!
Hope you are having a great weekend!
All the best from Sweden

[troubadouroutdoors]

I love this man so much. THANK YOU!!! Been trying to remember how to make these, for a tea. This way is so much easier than what was going to do. You’re an adorable lifesaver.

[SeanoHermano]

Thanks for the shaping video, John. I consider palmiers to be pastry hence the name puff pastry. It's a self-leavening dough that is laminated and the layers puff up when baked. Some might include it within the category of vienoisserie even though we won't add in our own leavening agents.

If making these in batches for later, only freeze the un-coated / unshaped dough. Freezing for prolonged periods of time (24 hrs+) causes the sugar to melt and then it will not caramelize nearly as well. I learned that mistake my first time making Kouign-Amann.

[positivevibesonly]

I love puff pastry dough! I found an all natural one at my local grocery store. Can’t wait to make these.
Something that looked so difficult to make, is so easy. These are perfect and delicious!!

[iveks-tp]

We followed along in real time and ours came out great for two people that had never even heard of these before!!

[emilyserafamanschot]

Thanks for sharing the recipe. We used to buy big ones in Spain and munch them while walking back to our dorms.

[MarieLineGabriele]

In France we can buy fresh at our bakery and it's decadent, they are big and amazing, we call it Palmiers

[raquelsaavedrae]

In panama we call them Orejitas and I buy a box of them at costco whenever i go. i LOOOOVE them. I tried ones that have some sort of pineapple glaze on them and those were DELICIOUS

[Fuzzi]

As a French I consider those pastries, yes, but also biscuits. Except I just realised now that they are Biscuits when I saw you baking them... (bis cuit : Twice Baked in French).

[christinenewell]

They look FAB:). I think I’ll try these but I’ll put a thin layer of jam in one set of them and maybe cinnamon with a drizzle of glace’ icing on the second. Def a quick and lovely wee pastry to take to friends for coffee. (I’m just thinking about coffee flavoured glace’ icing….delish). Thank you for this brilliant idea.

[Mirror]

Growing up I Loved these, we called them Palmeras where I’m from 😋

[durban]

First ate these from some bakery in New Orleans, but they were called Prussians (basically what they’re called in Italy). When I was young and didn’t like sweets, this was the only one I wanted to eat. I don’t/can’t cook, but even I could make these. Thanks!

[judyf]

These are one of my favorite cookies ever. Going to make these easy peasy cookies. Thank you John for these great recipes. Have a great day!!

[jujubee]

I would definitely call them a pastry! My Mom used to get them from the bakery but they were HUGE! We broke off pieces of them and had them with coffee. We called them Elephant Ears. Now that I know how easy they are to make, I think I’ll try them. Thanks.

[faithnelson]

my favorite thing! i used to get them at farmers market and they were great. now i'm not close to that one and have been buying them at different grocery stores. totally greasy and stale.
so thank you very much John.

[his-sweetie]

This is my most FAVORITE cookie on the planet!!!

[mousiebrown]

Wow! Ideas just are jumping up for custom cookies: shaved semisweet chocolate; cinnamon sugar; various sugar sprinkles in color; cooked lemon pudding dollop topping (very tiny like candy “kisses” in size) ! Now, if only the stores have puff pastry in stock!