Napoleon Kefir puffs

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Start by making the dough. Prepare all the necessary products. Take the flour of the highest grade. Separate about 50 grams of flour from the total amount, you will need it when you roll out the dough. Kefir the fatter you take, the tastier the puffs will turn out. The oil should be cold, take it out of the refrigerator before cooking.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a wide mold in which it will be convenient to rub the butter on a grater and knead the dough. Sift the flour into the mold. Add salt and baking powder, mix with flour so that they are evenly distributed over the dough. Flour must be sifted to saturate the dough with oxygen and it has become more airy. Rub the oil there on a coarse grater. To make the oil easier to rub and it sticks less to the grater, dip it in flour.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mix everything thoroughly and grind into crumbs.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add kefir to the crumbs, mix well and knead the dough.

5. Step 5:

   

   It is not necessary to knead the dough for a long time. Gather it into a ball. The grater and dish that you used for the dough will be needed later for making crumbs. The dough should not be too soft, flowing. If there is not enough flour, add a little. Since flour even of the same grade, but from different manufacturers, differs in properties, the amount of flour specified in the recipe may not be enough, or vice versa, there may be a lot.

6. Step 6:

   

   Wrap in plastic wrap or a clean bag and send it to the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours (the longer the better). The thinner the dough layer is, the faster it will cool down.

7. Step 7:

   

   Prepare the crumbs. Prepare all the necessary products according to the list. Take the flour of the highest grade. If you plan to use vanillin instead of vanilla sugar, reduce the amount required by the recipe by 10 times. Putting too much vanillin, you can spoil the taste of the finished product. The oil should be cold.

8. Step 8:

   

   Sift flour into the mold, mix it with sugar and vanilla. Similarly to step 2, rub the oil.

10. Step 9:

    

    Rub everything into a uniform crumb. Put the crumb in the refrigerator. It also needs to be cooled.

11. Step 10:

    

    It is very convenient to work with the cooled dough. Mash the dough a little after the refrigerator, so it will become more uniform. Divide into 6 equal parts. If it is difficult for you to determine "by eye", use kitchen scales. Turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.

12. Step 11:

    

    Sprinkle the work surface with flour and thinly roll out the first piece of dough into a rectangular layer. The edges do not have to be perfectly smooth. To make it convenient to work with the dough, sprinkle flour on the rolling pin and hands. While you are rolling out the dough, return the rest of its parts to the refrigerator so that the butter does not melt and the technology of making puffs does not break.

13. Step 12:

    

    For baking, take the largest baking tray that fits in your oven. Sprinkle it a little with flour or cover it with parchment. Transfer the first cake to the baking sheet. It is convenient to carry thinly rolled dough with a rolling pin. Loosely wrap the dough on a rolling pin, transfer and unfold in the right place.

14. Step 13:

    

    Remove the crumb from the refrigerator and divide into 5 equal parts. Cover the rolled dough evenly with one part of the crumbs. Similarly to steps 12 and 13, proceed with 4 more pieces of dough, covering a layer of crumbs with each subsequent cake.

15. Step 14:

    

    When rolling out the last piece of dough, make it slightly larger than all the previous ones. Cover the whole resulting "cake" with it" so that its edges are covered. Pick up the edges under the bottom layer, align the sides.

16. Step 15:

    

    Using a sharp knife, cut the resulting "cake&cut into pieces and push them apart so that the edges do not touch and do not stick together during the baking process. Choose the size as desired, I cut into 24 pieces, each about 4x3 cm. If you want to make bigger puffs, make fewer portions. Bake on the middle shelf in the oven at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Depending on the characteristics of your oven, the time may change.