Nutella Rolls

I remember seeing these Pain au Chocolate from La Fuji Mama a couple months back. I love croissants and, of course, you know my love for chocolate. I had a can of Pillsbury crescent rolls in the fridge eagerly waiting for me to use them. I had used another can for those delicious Cheese Rolls. This time around I decided to fill them with some nutella. Warm croissant filled with choco-hazelnut goodness. I'm drooling right now at the thought of it.

This is really easy to make. Cut the crescent dough into 4 or 8 pieces, place a nice dollop of nutella on edge and roll it up. Bake it as directed in the can. Roughly 13-15 minutes.

Just looks at that nutella wanting to burst out of the side there. 

Makes 4 large or 8 thin rolls

Nutella Rolls

Nutella
i can Pillsbury crescent rolls

Preheat your oven to 375˚F

Lay the crescent dough out on a baking and cut them into 4 or 8 rectangles.

Place a nice dollop of nutella at one end and lightly roll them up. Place them seam-side down on an ungreased baking sheet.

Bake for 13-15. Serve warm.

Cini Mini Bites with Cream Cheese Frosting

Now for the 4th and final recipe of the 4-part meal. I remember watching Barefoot Contessa on day and on the episode, Ina Garten had made some easy sticky buns.(Click here to view her recipe) It got me thinking on making some, but bite-sized. Here's my adaptation.

As I mentioned in the first of this 4-part post. Puff pastry usually comes in tri-folded sheet. The recipe below will use 1/3 of that pastry puff.

Serving size: 1/3 will generally make around 11 to 12 bites. One whole puff pastry will make 33 to 36 including edges.

The cream cheese frosting is similar to the cream cheese filling minus the strawberries.



Cini Mini Bites

1/3 Puff Pastry Sheet (cut at crease)
1 Tbsp Brown Sugar (plus 4 Tbsp extra)
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp Toffee Bits
1 Tbsp chopped Pecan chips (plus extra)
1/4 tsp melted butter
4 Tbsp butter (softened)
all purpose flour

Preheat oven 400˚F

Place pastry puff on a well-floured flat surface. Longest side towards you. Sprinkle brown sugar over dough, leaving a little over 1/2" at the top for the edge crust. Then sprinkle ground cinnamon, toffee bits and pecan chips. Make sure to get all the other sides but that open 1/2"

Brush the melted butter on that open 1/2", then roll the the dough nice and snug from the bottom up. Cut into 3/4" pieces.

Cream together the extra 4 Tbsp butter and 4 Tbsp brown sugar on a small bowl.

For baking sheets: Place mini muffins on greased sheet and place a tiny dollop of the butter and brown sugar mix and sprinkle some extra pecan ships.

For mini-muffin pans: place a tiny dollup of the butter mix at the bottom of each cup. Then place one piece of the cinnamon bites on top.

Bake for 10min.

For mini-muffin pans: to remove mini-bites, flip the pan onto a flat surface.
For sheet pans: remove with spatula.


Cream Cheese Frosting
2 oz. Cream Cheese (roughly 4 Tbsp)
4 Tbsp Confectioner Sugar (powdered sugar)
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract

Mix all three ingredients together in a small bowl


Putting it together: Place a nice dollop of frosting on each cini mini bite and enjoy!

Strawberry Strudel

Number 3 in the 4-part meal. Using pastry puff again. This recipe will make about two strudel squares.



Strawberry Strudel

2 puff pillows - halved

For a refresher on puff pillows: click here


Cream Cheese and Strawberry Filling
2 oz. Cream Cheese (roughly 4 Tbsp)
4 Tbsp Powdered Sugar (plus extra for dusting)
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
3 Tbsp strawberry jam (plus 4 Tbsp extra - optional)
Fresh Sliced Strawberries (optional)

Mix cream cheese, confectioner sugar and vanilla extract in a small bowl. Heat strawberry jam in microwave to 15 to soften and combine with cream cheese mix.

With the puff pillows already halved, take the bottom slice of the pillow and spread a nice helping of the strawberry filling. Optional: You may add some of the additional strawberry jam on top of the cream cheese in place of the fresh sliced strawberries or add both.

Then place the top half of the puff pillow and dust with a light or heavy coating of powdered sugar.


Yum!