If you don’t bake the dough sufficiently, the interior will be too wet and cause the dough to collapse, so let it go until the pastry is deep golden brown. Don’t forget to poke holes in the ...

given a party, or attended a wine-in-plastic-cup style gathering, chances are that you're familiar with baked brie. You'll ...

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Peter Callahan, the New York City caterer and author of “Peter Callahan’s Party Food” (Clarkson Potter, $35), wrote in an email that you should always bake puff pastry at a high temperature ...

This might seem like a juvenile thing to serve at a party, but I love them. The sausage combined with the crisp baked pastry is a very ... inch by 4-inch squares (you should have nine squares).

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