Sweet Palmiers - pastry

Method

• Preheat oven to 400F.
• Sprinkle some sugar on a work surface and cover it with a puff pastry square sheet.
• Then sprinkle more sugar evenly over pastry sheet and roll it out into a 10-inch square with a rolling pin.
• Fold in two opposite sides of the pastry sheet square so that they the sides meet in the center.
• Fold in same sides of the pastry again.
• Fold one half of the pastry over the other.
• Cut pastry crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Dip cut sides of each piece in sugar and arrange, cut side down, on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Repeat with three remaining pastry sheets.
• Bake palmiers in batches in middle of oven until golden on bottom, about 12 minutes.
• Turn over and bake until golden on bottom, 5 to 7 minutes more, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.