A step-by-step recipe for a Christmas candy puff pastry pie. The process of preparing a beautiful and delicious festive dish with a photo.
Puff pastry pie is an amazing dish that is suitable both for everyday tea drinking and for a festive table. There are a lot of cooking options: it all depends on the set of products and the imagination of the cook. Puff pastry products are airy, crispy and very tasty. A wide variety of products can be used as a filling.
The recipe for the "Christmas lollipop" cake made of puff pastry was developed especially for the celebration of Christmas on December 25th. The festive sweetness is taken as a basis - candy in the shape of the letter "J", with which the name Jesus begins in English. This symbol has its own characteristics, it combines two colors: white, symbolizing the immaculate conception and sinlessness, and red, representing the Holy Trinity. So, the recipe for the Christmas candy puff pastry pie combines snow-white cottage cheese and red berry puree.
When making Christmas candy, it is worth adhering to several rules for handling puff pastry, which you can prepare yourself or just buy it in the store to save time on the eve of the holiday. The recipe for a puff pastry pie with a photo and step by step technology, read on.
See also 2 ways to make puff pastry.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 179 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry - 500 g
- Cottage cheese of any fat content - 200 g
- Raspberry or strawberry puree - 100 g
- Yolk - 1 pc.
Step-by-step preparation of the "Christmas lollipop" pie from puff pastry
1. Prepare your favorite puff pastry recipe, or take a ready-made one. It is best to work with a slightly chilled product, it is more malleable. Roll it without undue pressure on the rolling pin into a thin rectangle-shaped layer. The thickness should be about 0.5 mm. Avoid excessive thinning so that the dough does not break later on.
2. The next step in the step-by-step recipe for Christmas candy puff pastry is cutting the base. In order not to jam the edges, shaping is best done with a sharp knife, you can use a special round one for cutting pizza. Divide the whole mass into 2 parts, cut each into elongated triangles.
3. It is better to use fine-grained cottage cheese. The mass can be grinded through a sieve or used for grinding with a hand blender to impart a pasty consistency. So the mass will become lighter and more airy. A little sugar can be added to enhance the flavor.
4. Before placing the cake, the baking tray used for baking must be rinsed with cold water. There is no need to lubricate it, because there is enough oil in a high-quality puff pastry, so the baked goods will not stick to the surface. You can lay down parchment paper if you like. Let's start laying out. For the Christmas Candy Puff Pastry recipe, the triangles should overlap each other. In this case, all sharp points should point in the same direction.
5. Now carefully lay out the cottage cheese, taking into account the fact that the long ends of the triangles are needed to further cover the cake, so there is no need to apply the filling on them. It is also worthwhile to step back a little from the opposite edge so that the dough can be easily pinched.
6. Next, berry puree is laid out on the "Christmas candy" puff pastry pie. It shouldn't be liquid. If the consistency is not thick, then a little corn starch should be added to the mass - 3 g is enough for 100 g of the product. This will allow avoiding leakage and burning of the filling during baking.
7. When all the curd and berry mass is already distributed, you can start wrapping the cake. To do this, simply wrap the sharp edges over the filling and pinch slightly.
8. According to the recipe for the "Christmas candy" pie made from puff pastry, it needs to be shaped like a caramel cane, slightly bending one edge into the baking sheet.
9. Use only egg yolk for lubrication. It should be applied only in the middle, avoiding contact with the edges, so that the dough rises well during baking. We put in an oven preheated to 220 degrees and bake for 15-20 minutes. At this temperature, this time is quite enough for the Christmas candy puff pastry cake to bake well and not dry out. At the end of the process, a golden brown crust should form.
11. Next, take out the pastries and leave them on the table to cool. The cooled product will be easily removed from the baking sheet and will not break.
12. Remove the curd and berry pie from the baking sheet. It is better to use a rectangular dish for serving. You can decorate the Christmas candy with any sweets - it can be sugar confetti, candied fruits, fresh berries, and powdered sugar.
13. A beautiful, fragrant and very tasty puff pastry cake "Christmas candy" is ready. He, of course, will decorate the festive table, add a good mood and will please every sweet tooth.
See also video recipes:
1. Quick puffs with cottage cheese and berries
2. Puff pastry pie with sweet filling
