Christmas Stars
The Christmas Puff Pastry Stars with hazelnuts are small, crunchy, buttery sweets, made with ready-made puff pastry, whole hazelnuts, and pearl sugar. An easy and quick recipe, perfect for enriching holiday cookie trays or for accompanying Christmas tea and breakfast.
Servings: 8 porzioni
Equipment
- 1 oven
Ingredients
- 300 gr. Puff pastry
Instructions
- Grease and flour a large baking sheet.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the puff pastry to an thickness of about 3 mm, and with a star-shaped cutter, 7 cm from tip to tip, cut out 35 stars.
- As they are ready, place them on the baking sheet: when finished, lightly brush with beaten egg and insert a hazelnut in the center of each.
- Place the sheet in a cool environment and let the pastries rest for 30 minutes.
- After this time, sprinkle them with granulated sugar and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for about 10 minutes, until they are well golden on top and cooked inside.
- Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack: they should be served on the same day.