Yeasted puff pastry is the long, satisfying baking project you need now

This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline, and everything in between! * * * Yeasted puff pastry is one of those items on your "to-bake" list that may seem especially nerve-wracking: after all, it's a dough that combines both the difficulty of an enriched yeast-raised dough with the process of lamination, where the dough goes through a series of folds to evenly incorporate butter and achieve a beautifully layered, flaky result. Here's how the lamination process works for yeasted puff: The dough is rolled out and a block of butter gets wrapped inside it. The dough used to make yeasted puff pastry is classified as an "enriched" dough, meaning it contains ingredients like butter, sugar and milk. Photo by Julia Gartland * * * The lock-in What we call the "lock in" happens when the butter block gets wrapped fully inside the dough.