If you are looking for simple and quick puff pastry desserts that are delicious and impressive, the puff pastry swirls with cream and chocolate are the recipe for you. Creamy inside, crispy outside, and enriched with irresistible chocolate chips, they are the ideal dessert to serve for breakfast, as a sweet break, or as a snack for the kids, both at home and school.
Making the cream swirls is truly easy: you just need to make a vanilla pastry cream – or use ready-made if you are short on time – spread it onto a roll of rectangular puff pastry, and finish with dark chocolate chips. Once rolled, slice and bake: in just 20 minutes you will have puff pastry swirls that are fluffy, golden, and fragrant, ready to be enjoyed while still warm.
If you love puff pastry desserts, you can also try the delightful apple puff pastry swirls, perfect for an autumn breakfast, the crunchy sweet puff pastry fans, ideal to serve with tea, or the delicious Nutella puff pastry pockets.
With few ingredients and in no time, you will bring to the table a dessert that will conquer everyone at the first taste: the puff pastry swirls with cream will become one of your favorite recipes, to remake whenever you want to impress with simplicity and taste.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: 15 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven, Stove
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
- Energy 136.34 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 13.56 (g) of which sugars 4.86 (g)
- Proteins 2.41 (g)
- Fat 8.24 (g) of which saturated 1.83 (g)of which unsaturated 5.53 (g)
- Fibers 0.23 (g)
- Sodium 41.22 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 27 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for 15 puff pastry swirls with cream and chocolate chips
If you are celiac, you can make gluten-free swirls using ready-made gluten-free puff pastry. Always check these ingredients have the “gluten-free” label: cornstarch, chocolate chips.
- 1 roll puff pastry (preferably rectangular)
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tbsps sugar
- 3 tbsps cornstarch
- 1 pod vanilla
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
Tools
- 1 Pan
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Whisk
- 1 Baking Tray
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Knife
How to Make Puff Pastry Swirls with Pastry Cream and Chocolate Chips
To make the puff pastry swirls with cream and chocolate, start by preparing the pastry cream: you can follow the recipe found here but halve all the doses (1); if you prefer, you can cook it in the microwave as indicated here. Once ready, let it cool to room temperature. When cold, unroll the puff pastry and, using a spatula, spread it with the pastry cream forming an even layer (2). Distribute the chocolate chips on top (3), keeping some aside to decorate the surface of the swirls.
Roll the puff pastry onto itself, starting from one of the shorter sides (4). As you roll, press gently to compact it. Seal all edges well (5) and wrap the roll in parchment paper. Let it rest in the fridge for half an hour. The fridge rest isn’t essential, but it will help make the roll more compact and easier to cut. After half an hour, remove the roll from the fridge, discard the parchment paper, and with a knife, cut it into 15 swirls, approximately 1.5 cm thick (6).
Place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, well-spaced from one another (7). Decorate with the reserved chocolate chips (8). Bake the puff pastry swirls in a preheated static oven at 392°F, for 20-25 minutes. When they are puffed and golden, remove from the oven (9) and let them cool slightly.
The puff pastry swirls with cream and chocolate are excellent both warm and cold; serve them for breakfast or as a snack. Placed in a lunch box, they can also be a tasty snack to put in the children’s backpack as they return to school these days!
Storage
You can store the puff pastry swirls at room temperature for a couple of days.
Tips and Variations
This recipe is versatile and can be adapted as desired: instead of chocolate chips, you can use raisins previously soaked for 10 minutes in water and well-drained, creating treats similar to Danish pastries; or hazelnut or almond crumbs. Or you could add a bit of Nutella, spread over the cream layer. The classic pastry cream can be replaced with chocolate, lemon or orange versions.
