Ina Garten Swears That This Is The 'Key To Really Good Pastry'

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Ina Garten Swears That This Is The 'Key To Really Good Pastry' By Garrett Palm Sept. 23, 2025 8:39 am EST

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Getting perfectly flakey pastry feels like a magic trick. We know someone knows how to do it because we've eaten deliciously light pastries before. Yet it seems impossible to achieve at home. Thankfully, Ina Garten is not one to hold her secrets close to her chest and shares tips like how to get perfectly leavened baked goods . In a recent Substack post, Garten also gave us a peak behind the baking curtain to reveal the secret to light and flakey pastry: ice cold butter.

The butter needs to be cold because as it starts to heat up in the oven, it steams the pastry from the inside, creating tiny holes and layers in