How do you celebrate your Christmas morning?
We like lots and lots of lattes, champagne, fruit and a special pastry or two (ok, honestly-three).
I am already crazy for pain au chocolate but how about one made with chocolate puff pastry?
I don’t usually make puff pastry (only about once a year because it is a bit on the labour intensive side) but it is Christmas and this year I decided to cut down on a lot of baking so it was time to pull out all the stops.
I’ve got 4 1/2 cups of flour and 1/2 cup of cocoa to which I added 2 cups of water and…
the folding procedure, I actually have step-by-step pictures for from my last foray into puff pastry and you end up with…
yep, luscious dough with chunks of butter.
That spells Happy Christmas to me.
I took a 1/4 of the dough and rolled it out 1/4 inch thick and slice it into 4×3 rectangles.
I added three blackberries, 1/2 oz of really good chocolate and a teaspoon sprinkle of sugar.
Roll, tuck under the seam and lightly press the ends and sprinkle the tops with sugar.
Bake for 15-20 minutes at 415 degrees and try to hide enough for Christmas morning.
Munch away while you open Santa’s spoils C:
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those look DIVINE!!! yum!!! i am heading to your house after we open presents!
Sounds good, we have an endless supply of espresso. Stop by on Friday for something totally fun.
We love goodies on Christmas morning, too. Yummm, these look really great.
Over from Eliz & Co.
Thanks for the visit C:
oh, merciness! I know those are worth the trouble. They look amazing!
You’ll love Wednesday’s bread and Friday is another really special breakfast.