Lemon Raspberry Turnovers: 1 Hour Puff Pastry (Video)

Sweet, tart, flaky, and buttery. These lemon raspberry turnovers filled with homemade tangy lemon curd are to die for! If you love lemon you might also like our lemon sugar cookies, blueberry lemon scones, or lemon thumbprint cookies!

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Lemon Raspberry Turnovers

Homemade lemon curd, fresh raspberries and our one hour puff pastry. Mix them together and what do you get? Lemon raspberry turnovers. The combination of sweet and tart is amazing, and you won't believe how flaky these turnovers are!

Quick 1 Hour Puff Pastry Dough

What makes this pastry dough different than traditional puff pastry dough or store-bought puff pastry? For starters, it comes together in an hour instead of 6 hours. This is because you only roll it out and press the butter into the dough one time. With traditional puff pastry, you roll the butter into the dough then proceed to fold and roll it every hour or so. Each time you fold the dough it creates more layers of butter that will bake up tall and flaky in the oven. With quick puff pastry, you get the same crispy flaky texture, but fewer layers.

Homemade Lemon Curd

If you haven't made your own lemon curd before you should totally try it! It takes a little over an hour, and most of that time is spent with the curd chilling in the refrigerator. It is inexpensive, only requires 5 ingredients ((lemon juice, sugar, egg yolks, lemon zest, and butter) ), and tastes better than store-bought lemon curd (but you can use store-bought as well!). I love that it is so much brighter when you make it yourself. Just look at that yellow color! The yellow comes from the egg yolks in the curd, not the fresh lemon juice 😉

Click here for my lemon curd recipe and step by step video!

How to Make Lemon Raspberry Turnovers

(Scroll down for printable recipe without photos)

Ingredients

Directions

There are 3 things to remember when making puff pastry:

1: Use COLD BUTTER

2: Don’t over-work the dough

3: Refrigerate Dough

If you have a food processor, follow the instructions in this post. If not, scroll to see how I make mine by hand.

We’re going to start out with 2 sticks of COLD BUTTER. Chop it into tiny pieces and place it back into the refrigerator.

Grab a half stick of COLD butter (4 Tbsp.) and chop it into tiny pieces. Add it to 2 cups of flour in a mixing bowl, and use a pastry cutter to blend until it resembles coarse sand.

Remember the 2 sticks of butter that you chopped and refrigerated? Pull that out and toss with the flour mixture. Don’t cut it in with the pastry cutter. Just coat with flour.

Mix ½ c. cold water and 1 teaspoon of salt together and pour into bowl. Blend until all water has been absorbed and a rough dough has formed. I use my pastry cutter to do this. Gently mix and press. It doesn’t have to look like a ball of dough, just make sure there isn’t a lot of dry flour on the bottom of the bowl.

Roll dough out between two pieces of plastic wrap. It doesn’t need to be perfect, you are just pressing all of those butter cubes into the dough. It might still be a little crumbly along the edges. That’s fine.

Remove the plastic wrap and use your hands to shape dough into a ball on a floured surface. Flour your hands to avoid the butter sticking to it.

Roll out dough to a 6″x18″ rectangle (see image above). Cover the rolling pin in flour to prevent any butter from sticking to it. Fold dough into thirds like you would a business letter. It should now resemble a 6″x6″ square—or close to it.

See? Mine isn’t a perfect square, but it is folded into thirds.

Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

When the dough has had time to chill, place on a floured surface and pound with a rolling pin to make it a bit softer. Watch my video to see how I do this. Then roll out to a long rectangle, ¼″ thick. My rectangle was about 11″x22″ and I trimmed it down with a pizze slicer to 10″x20″.

Slice the dough into 5″ squares. Pour a small amount of filling onto each square (2-3 teaspoons of lemon curd + 3 fresh raspberries tossed in sugar).

Dip your finger in water and run it along the edges. Fold the turnover on a diagonal and press down with your fingers to seal. Then press down along the edges with a fork.

Use a sharp knife to make a few slits on the top for venting. Place turnovers on an ungreased baking sheet or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Brush turnovers with an egg wash and sprinkle with coarse sugar. I use clear sugar sprinkles.

When baked for 22-24 minutes they puff up and turn golden. The filling stays HOT for quite awhile. Let them rest a bit before serving. So yummy! This recipe makes 8 (5″) turnovers.

Lemon Raspberry Turnovers Recipe

Lemon Curd Puff Pastry Variations: try spreading a bit of cream cheese onto the puff pastries or add other berries like blueberries, or blackberries! You can also serve the hot pastries with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Another idea is to drizzle the desserts in a vanilla glaze (made from vanilla extract, powdered sugar (confectioners' sugar), and a splash of milk or water.

Store leftover turnovers in an airtight container.