10 life hacks to turn a simple pastry into a real masterpiece

When you want to cook something interesting with minimal time, various culinary tricks will always come to the rescue.

The FoodOboz editorial team has prepared 10 of the most interesting life hacks that will give old dishes a second chance.

Openwork cookies with apples

Roll out the dough in a circle, cut into pieces and add grated apples, wrap.

Pears in puff pastry

Peel the pear and cut it in half. Cover each pear with a sheet of puff pastry and put it in the oven.

Buttons cookies

Make shortcrust pastry, roll it out, and squeeze out cookies with a glass. Using a bottle cap and a juice straw, shape each one into this shape.

Daisies with lemon jam

Using a pastry cutter, cut out "flowers", put them on muffin tins, and bake. Add jam to the center of each one, and sprinkle the edges with powder if desired.

Chocolate croissants

You will need two doughs: plain and "chocolate" with cocoa. Roll it out in the shape of a circle, put one on top of the other, cut it, and roll it into a croissant shape.

Cookies "Bunnies"

These cookies are perfect for children. Make balls from the dough and cut them with scissors on one side so that the cuts look like "ears" and use a match to make "eyes" for the bunny.

Cupcake with ice cream

Pour the batter into the muffin tins, but only half of it, as you will need to add more batter on top and put the same mold. Put them in the oven to make a basket of cupcakes. After the baskets have cooled, you can safely put a scoop of ice cream in the recesses.

"Star" cake with chocolate paste

To make this dish, take the dough and make two circles out of it. Spread one of them with chocolate paste, add nuts or cinnamon, and simply put the other on top. Cut and wrap the edges. The cake will be perfect for tea.

The perfect zebra cake

Prepare the well-known zebra dough, divide it into 2 parts, and add cocoa to one part. Pour the batter into the mold one by one, and carefully place it in the oven.

Meat pie "Chrysanthemum"

Roll out the yeast dough not too thinly, make circles like for dumplings, put minced meat on them, add cheese on top, fold in half, and join the edges and put them in the mold in this way. Put them in the oven.