Today I’m sharing the last recipe in my series of fun Nutcracker themed food ideas. These easy cheese puff pastry Christmas trees are really quick to put together but make lovely festive party food – perfect for a Nutcracker themed party.
You could also serve up smaller individual trees to make a fun Christmas starter, or pile them up on platters to make a forest of edible Christmas trees on your table of Christmas party food!
Cheese Puff Pastry Christmas Trees
Ingredients:
- 1 roll of ready-made puff pastry
- 1 egg
- 50g cheddar cheese plus extra cheese to decorate
Method:
Preheat the oven to 200°C (Gas mark 6/390°F). Spray or brush a couple of baking trays with oil.
Using 3 or 4 different sizes of nesting star cutters, cut out equal amounts of each size of star from the pastry and place on your oiled baking trays.
Lightly beat the egg, then brush a little egg over each pastry star.
Grate 50g of the cheddar cheese with a fine grater and sprinkle over the pastry stars. Try to keep it fairly neat with as much cheese on the stars as possible, but don’t worry too much as stray strands of cheese can be snapped off once the stars are cooked.
Bake in the oven for around 10-15 minutes until cooked through and golden. Make sure you keep a sharp eye on them as the smaller stars will cook more quickly – remove the smaller stars once cooked and return the larger ones to the oven to finish baking if necessary.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool a little.
Assemble the trees, starting with the biggest stars and piling smaller stars on top to form each tree.
If your trees are a bit wobbly, you could secure each layer with a small dollop of cream cheese to hold it together.
Top each tree with a star cut from the remaining cheddar cheese.
Serve immediately and enjoy!
If you want to make these in advance, cool completely after baking then store the stars somewhere cool in an air tight container for a day or two. Reheat before serving to freshen them up.
You could also freeze if wanted – make sure you freeze the stars in a single layer before popping into an air tight container or bag once frozen. Defrost and reheat them before serving.
If you enjoyed this post, do check out the rest of our Nutcracker series – we’ve been posting new ideas every few days over the last few weeks. You can find all of the rest our posts over on Meghans Plan the Perfect Nutcracker Party page or check out my own round-up of all of our Nutcracker themed party ideas!
For more delicious and fun food ideas for the festive season, check out the Christmas Food section here on the Eats Amazing blog or pop over and follow my Christmas Pinterest boards for lots more fun ideas from around the web; Christmas, Cute Christmas Food Ideas and Healthy Christmas Food.
Grace
These really easy cheese puff pastry Christmas trees make a lovely Christmas starter or a gorgeous centerpiece for a nutcracker themed party!
- 1 roll of ready-made puff pastry
- 1 egg
- 50 g cheddar cheese plus extra cheese to decorate
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (Gas mark 6/390°F). Spray or brush a couple of baking trays with oil.
- Using 3 or 4 different sizes of nesting star cutters, cut out equal amounts of each size of star from the pastry and place on your oiled baking trays.
- Lightly beat the egg, then brush a little egg over each pastry star.
- Grate 50g of the cheddar cheese with a fine grater and sprinkle over the pastry stars. Try to keep it fairly neat with as much cheese on the stars as possible, but don't worry too much as stray strands of cheese can be snapped off once the stars are cooked.
- Bake in the oven for around 10-15 minutes until cooked through and golden. Make sure you keep a sharp eye on them as the smaller stars will cook more quickly - remove the smaller stars once cooked and return the larger ones to the oven to finish baking if necessary.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool a little.
- Assemble the trees, starting with the biggest stars and piling smaller stars on top to form each tree.
- If your trees are a bit wobbly, you could secure each layer with a small dollop of cream cheese to hold it together.
- Top each tree with a star cut from the remaining cheddar cheese.
Serve immediately.
NOTES: If you want to make these in advance, cool completely after baking then store the stars somewhere cool in an air tight container for a day or two. Reheat before serving to freshen them up. You could also freeze if wanted - make sure you freeze the stars in a single layer before popping into an air tight container or bag once frozen. Defrost and reheat them before serving.
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Sammie says
Such a super brilliant idea that is easy to bake. Even though I bake lots of sweet treats I actually prefer savoury. This is fab. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Sammie.
Grace says
Thank you! I tend to share a lot of sweet treats too, they’re often easier to make but I do try to come up with some savoury ideas, I enjoy savoury stuff more too!
Meghan | PlaygroundParkbench says
I totally just added these to our Christmas menu for Friday! Adorable!
My Little Italian Kitchen says
This is wonderful! Love this idea and it is so easy and pretty!