From the Christmas bakery
Quick puff pastry firs with cinnamon and sugar
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The Christmas season is here to be enjoyed, just like these delicious and crunchy puff pastry Christmas trees.
Advent, Advent – the stove is burning! Namely for these refined puff pastry fir trees with cinnamon and sugar. This quick recipe with a guarantee of success is perfect for anyone who wants to conjure up a delicious Advent pastry for themselves, friends or family without having to spend hours in the kitchen.
With only 5 ingredients and 15 minutes, you can prepare this Christmas pastry in no time at all and will probably get even the biggest hater at Christmas in a festive mood.
Particularly quick and easy: For our quick recipe we use puff pastry from the supermarket refrigerated section, which saves time and nerves in the turbulent pre-Christmas period. And this is how it’s done:
ingredients
- 1 packet of puff pastry
- Cinnamon/sugar mixed
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp cream
- some wooden skewers
Preparation:
- Roll out the puff pastry and brush with the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- Then fold the dough over one another and cut it into strips about 1.5 cm thick with a pizza cutter.
- Now lay the strips on top of each other in a zigzag and thus form the outline of a Christmas tree. This is then fixed with the wooden skewers.
- Now spread the saplings with a mixture of cream and egg yolk – then they will turn golden brown and crispy in the oven.
- Baking time: approx. 12-15 minutes at 180°C top and bottom heat.
Editor’s tip: The puff pastry trees can be prepared in a wide variety of sweet variations. Try spreading them with a delicious cream (e.g. speculoos or chocolate cream) instead of cinnamon and sugar. The fir trees also look wonderfully wintry with matching decorations made of snow-white icing sugar or individual “tree decorations” made of chocolate sprinkles.