3-Ingredient Palmier Cookies

3-Ingredient Palmier Cookies are sweet, buttery, flaky, and crispy. All you need is some store-bought puff pastry, sugar, and ground cinnamon.

Palmier Cookies are a French pastry made from puff pastry and sugar. They are great at breakfast with coffee, as a sweet snack, or of course for dessert. There are lots of variations with both sweet and savory fillings. I love to serve these with other holiday recipes like these Chocolate Almond Clusters or even on a Dessert Charcuterie Board.

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• ⭐Why I love them
• 🎄Great Make Ahead Holiday Recipe
• 🥘Ingredients
• 📖Variations:
• 🔪Step By Step Instructions
• 💭Recipe Tips
• 🍽Leftovers and Storage
• 👩‍🍳Recipe FAQs
• 🍪Related Dessert Recipes
• Recipe
• Reviews

⭐Why I love them

• Easy Ingredients - You can find the ingredients at almost any grocery store!
• Make Ahead - You can prep the palmier and chill in the fridge for 2 days or freeze for a month!
• Super Quick - You only need about 10 minutes of active prep time
• 3 Ingredients - You only need store-bought puff pastry, white granulated sugar, and ground cinnamon

🎄Great Make Ahead Holiday Recipe

These palmier cookies are a great make ahead cookie option for the holidays! After rolling up the puff pastry and wrapping in plastic wrap, you can refrigerate the logs for up to 2 days or you can freeze for up to 1 month.

If you freeze, you'll need to thaw the palmier logs in the fridge before slicing and baking. The freezing/thawing process does cause the sugar coating to become a little wet. You can give the log a roll in a little extra cinnamon sugar to help soak up the moisture before baking.

🥘Ingredients

• Puff Pastry - you can find this in the freezer section of most grocery stores. One box contains two sheets which is what this recipe uses. But you could easily halve or even double to make more or less cookies. Also try making this Puff Pastry Xmas Tree or Puff Pastry Bites with Brie!
• White Granulated Sugar
• Ground Cinnamon

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

📖Variations:

• Brown Sugar - Instead of white sugar, try using brown sugar (with or without cinnamon)
• Nuts - You can add very finely chopped nuts to the filling. Make sure the nuts are chopped finely or it will be difficult to slice cleanly.
• Orange Zest - Try adding some orange zest to the sugar mixture
• Nutella - Skip the cinnamon sugar and spread Nutella on the puff pastry instead.
• Pesto - For a savory spin, spread a layer of pesto. Also try these pesto phyllo cups!

🔪Step By Step Instructions

It is so easy to make puff pastry palmier cookies - it takes only minutes of active prep time!

💭Recipe Tips

• Chill - It's important to chill the puff pastry palmier logs before slicing. Chilling makes it much easier to slice the cookies.
• Slice Evenly - The key for evenly baked cookies is to slice each cookie into an even thickness.
• Use a Serrated Knife - You'll want to use a sharp knife to slice the cookies and a sharp serrated knife is best so you can gently saw through the logs without squishing them.

🍽Leftovers and Storage

Baked palmier cookies can be stored at room temperature, in an airtight container, for up to 1 week.

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🍪Related Dessert Recipes

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