Today’s recipe is for holiday-friendly French cookies called "palmiers" that are made with puff pastry, cinnamon sugar and a little butter. The cookies may appear difficult make, but the recipe is actually simple. The name "palmier" refers to the fact that the cookies end up looking like tops of palm trees.

Ingredients:
4 tbs of butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1 tbs ground cinnamon.
2 sheets of puff pastry
Flour

Procedure:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and melt 4 tbs of butter in a small pot. Make the cinnamon sugar in a small mixing bowl by combining 1/3 cup white sugar with 1 tbs ground cinnamon.

Plan ahead and defrost 1 box, or 2 sheets, of puff pastry in the fridge overnight. Lay those out on a floured work surface, sprinkle a little more flour over the top and use a rolling pin to roll them out into longer and thinner rectangles.

Next, use a pastry brush to divide the melted butter over both sheets and then evenly sprinkle a generous amount of the cinnamon sugar.

Starting along one long side, tightly roll the puff pastry halfway and then tightly roll the other side towards the middle.

Cut the rolled up pastry crosswise into ½-inch thick slices and carefully transfer them to parchment paper-lined baking trays, flat side down. Leave an inch or two inches between each cookie.

Sprinkle a little of the remaining cinnamon sugar over the top of the cookies and place the trays into the preheated oven.

The cookies will take just about 15 minutes to bake and the trays should be switched from top to bottom halfway through.