Abstract: A device for making food items from puff pastry includes an external, peripheral cutting blade having a structure like that of ordinary cookie cutters so that the shape of the external blade determines the shape of a section of dough that is separated from a larger section of dough in the well-known way. A pair of internal blades are spaced inwardly of the external blade, and are mounted to the external blade by a plurality of spacers. The internal blades are spaced from one another to define a pair of uncut gaps in the dough that is cut by them. In a second embodiment, a continuous internal blade is connected to the external blade by spacers, but is recessed with respect to the external blade so that it cuts through a top layer only of a puff pastry made from two layers of dough.