Over the weekends we like a candy deal with after lunch, so I normally purchase pastries or the like for the remainder of the household. However over Christmas I made a decision to strive one thing completely different – making my very own puff pastry chocolate twists.
I discover pastry with simply chocolate unfold in can find yourself a bit dry, so the custard offers a bit of moisture. I additionally love custard, scorching or chilly. Plus yum to something with chocolate. With these pastries you don’t even want chocolate unfold, just a few chocolate chips or mini baking chunks.
Prepared made pastry is without doubt one of the objects I all the time have within the fridge. It’s so helpful for each savoury and candy pies, different desserts, sausage rolls, and for candy pastry treats. I are inclined to have puff pastry prepared rolled, however you possibly can use a block of it and roll it out your self. I simply go for the simplest possibility.
When making these pastries, you possibly can combine up the form of them. Strive a mini hand pie, or one single plait, or for one thing extra particular strive a elaborate single round set of twists like a flower (you’ve in all probability seen those I imply on social media). However I needed simple, so twists it was.
What kind of custard can I exploit?
Any custard, so long as it’s probably not runny. I used on the spot custard powder made with water. Tinned custard is normally fairly thick so could be positive. And quaint Birds custard powder could be nice as you may work how thick you need the custard.
It should thicken barely because the twists cool, however you need the custard to remain the place you unfold it on the pastry in any other case it can ooze out earlier than you’ve even make the twists.
In my expertise prepared to make use of chilled custards are typically a bit runnier (specifically the extra luxurious ranges), however you may experiment to see what works finest for you.
What components do you want?
There’s solely 3 components wanted for this custard and chocolate twists recipe: puff pastry, chocolate chips, custard (ideally chilly), and an elective egg or milk to brush over the pastry to assist flip it a pleasant golden brown.
I used darkish chocolate chips as a result of that’s what I had within the larder, however you possibly can use milk chocolate. As a final resort you possibly can substitute the chocolate chips with chocolate unfold over the pastry first as a substitute however it might find yourself barely sickly I feel.
Methods to make puff pastry chocolate twists
Prep time: 20 minutes (if making the custard up first and cooling it)
Cook dinner time: 20 minutes
Serves: 8
Substances
- 1 pre-rolled pack of puff pastry
- 1 packet of on the spot custard made up and funky (or different – you need about 200-250ml or 1 cup of custard)
- 100g chocolate chips
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 180C and prep a baking sheet with baking parchment.
2. Lay out the pastry (panorama) on prime of the paper it comes with, or baking parchment). Lower it in half throughout vertically supplying you with 2 even items of pastry.
3. Unfold over the cooled custard on one piece.
4. Sprinkle the chocolate chips liberally excessive.
5. Put the second piece of pastry excessive.
6. Then get out a pointy knife (or pizza cutter), and lower strips about 2cm vast. The final one would possibly find yourself a bit skew whiff however don’t fear an excessive amount of about that.
7. As soon as they’re all lower, choose up every in flip at every finish, and twist in reverse instructions in all probability one route with every hand, inserting every twist on the parchment paper.
8. If utilizing, evenly combine the egg and use a brush so as to add the egg wash excessive of the pastry twists. You should use milk or not trouble. I used egg wash for mine.
9. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180C for round 20 minutes till the pastry is cooked by means of and golden brown.
10. Depart to chill on the baking tray on a wire rack.
Earlier than serving you should use a sieve to sprinkle over icing sugar to make them look prettier.
Ours didn’t final very lengthy, however as soon as chilly, retailer in an hermetic container to maintain them for a few days.
Gear strategies:
These chocolate twists are really easy to make, and a lot cheaper (and more energizing) than shopping for in espresso retailers or the grocery store. Deal with your self for breakfast or with a cup of tea mid morning.
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