Palmiers / Elephant ears

I have always loved to have Little Heart biscuits. This is one thing that neither have I ever procrastinated my decision to buy and indulge in these crispy heart shaped cookies nor have they ever lasted to be stored to have later. Yes, I was addicted to them :).

Weekly grocery shopping calls in for a tour of the bakery section. All throughout the tour, my inner self would be yelling out to me - control Anupa, control ! But I have disobeyed many a times. One such time was when I fell for Palmiers. They reminded me of Little hearts (my weakness).

Homemade Puff Pastry and Chicken Puffs

During my hostel days, I remember that my parents/brother/uncle/aunt whoever visited me, a package from the bakery would come along with them. In that package, puffs would be one of the things. It used to be one thing that you take with you when you are visiting family members / having a tea party / having a bride viewing at home etc. etc.

I have noticed the current generation have a different trend these days. They would rather prefer fried chicken, burgers, hot dogs, pizza... Since the demand for puffs has gone down, the bakeries tend to make only a hand full of them and only the early birds get lucky. So, it had been a while that we had them.