

This chocolate chess pie pairs a rich, fudgy cocoa filling with flaky pastry and a delicate crackly top.

Cranberry Brie Bites tuck creamy cheese, cranberry sauce, and pecans into flaky puff pastry cups.

A short pastry base holds a filling made from ricotta cheese, cream cheese, almond flour, candied citrus peel and overnight-soaked raisins.

This Polish Apple Pie with Meringue (Szarlotka z Pianką) features buttery shortcrust pastry layered with soft cooked apples, fluffy meringue and a golden grated pastry topping.

Tender lamb cubes are simmered with onion, tomato and seasoning until the liquid reduces, then wrapped in layers of butter-brushed filo and baked at 180C until the pastry turns golden and crisp.

Piroshki is Ukrainian for these beloved hand pies made from yeasted dough.

This stunning tomato galette features a buttery crust (which can be made gluten-free, as always), a creamy layer of goat cheese that’s flavored with garlic and honey, and a topping of juicy tomatoes.

This puff pastry apricot tart is an easy fresh apricot dessert made with flaky puff pastry, sweet-tart apricots, and a simple apricot glaze.

Become an expert in Greek pies with this traditional method for making Greek phyllo dough.

Roasting vegetables in a hot oven before they ever touch the pastry is what separates a genuinely good vegetable tart from a soggy, underseasoned one.

This is a laminated flatbread made by folding ghee and flour into thin layers, then resting the dough until it puffs and crisps on a hot tawa.

This is tandoori chicken baked under a flaky pastry lid that steams everything together in the final ten minutes.

Pies hold a special place in Greek cooking, and prasopita (from “praso”, meaning leek) is one of those dishes I grew up watching my mother and grandmother make.

There is something special about a weekend when the smell of something sweet fills every corner of the house.

These golden, flaky vegetable puffs are stuffed with a spiced potato and vegetable filling that hits just the right balance of warmth and comfort.

Flaky and Golden Ham and Cheese puff pastries made easy with store-bought puff pastry sheets.

Sun-Dried Tomato & Spinach Puff Pastry Bites: Bite-size, flaky appetizers filled with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and cheese.