Essential Pastry Recipes for Home Baking

Pastry is where baking gets wonderfully crisp, flaky, buttery and a little bit theatrical. These are my favourite pastry recipes, from quick puff pastry and flat caramelised croissants to sweet apple strudel, syrupy galaktoboureko and savoury sausage rolls for parties, lunchboxes and picnics. If you are in a baking mood, you might also like my pies and tarts, bread recipes and French recipes.

Cheese, Caramelised Onion, Pork & Fennel Sausage Rolls
Featured pastries recipe Cheese, Caramelised Onion, Pork & Fennel Sausage Rolls

These delicious cheese and onion sausage rolls came about but I had a wheel of King Island Ash Discovery Blue that needed to be eaten and I hate to see anything go to waste. I think it was the huge amount of travelling that I had been doing so somehow, what would ordinarily be eaten with verve and gusto was left until it was close to the best before date. Then came a delivery from Beerenberg with a jar of their caramelised onions amongst other goodies. It was then that I recalled Claire's recipe for blue cheese and caramelised onion sausage rolls. It helped that I was about to leave Mr NQN for some travelling and he looked at my pitifully when I asked him what he was going to eat for  lunch. "Subway, Monday to Friday" was not the right answer so I decided to make these.

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Puff pastry, croissants and laminated treats

These recipes are all about golden, flaky layers, from a quick homemade puff pastry to croissants, palmiers and morning buns.

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Choux pastry and French-style bakes

For puffs, rings and creamy fillings, these are the pastry recipes that feel a little bit fancy.

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Pastry from around the world

These recipes wander through Italian, Greek, Armenian, Czech, Chinese, Turkish and Jewish-inspired pastry ideas.

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Sweet pastry recipes

Fruit pastries, galettes and turnovers

Fruit and pastry are best friends, especially when apples, plums, peaches, pears and berries are tucked into flaky pastry.

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Custard, filo and syrupy pastries

This is where crispy filo, silky custard, fragrant syrup and crunchy nuts do all the good work.

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Creamy, chocolatey and playful pastry sweets

These are the pastry-adjacent treats that are rich, fun and very good with tea or coffee.

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Savoury pastry recipes

Sausage rolls

This is a gloriously large sausage roll stash, because NQN has a lot of genuinely useful sausage roll recipes.

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Savoury pies, parcels and party pastries

These are the pastry recipes I would happily take to a picnic, serve for lunch or make for a cosy dinner.

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