Small easy and quick puff pastry croissants with ready-made puff pastry filled with jam or Nutella, but you can also fill them with ricotta, either sweet or savory, maybe adding smoked salmon, as puff pastry is well-suited for any type of preparation, sweet or savory. To make these puff pastry croissants, or to be more precise, the mini puff pastry croissants, we need one roll, but better two, of ready-made puff pastry, and some jam, just two ingredients, you read that right. I used rectangular pastry for about 14 mini croissants, but if you want, you can also use a round pastry, dividing it into 8 wedges. If you want to make real puffed croissants at home, click on the highlighted text, you’ll see, they’ll be better than those at the café. Also try the fried ravioli or quick turnovers, you can fill them with a sweet filling as well, frying or cooking them without fats, in a pan or oven.
Let’s see how to prepare them.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 14
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for Puff Pastry Croissants
- 1 roll puff pastry
- 3.5 oz jam or Nutella
Tools
- 1 Baking tray
- 1 Knife
- 1 Teaspoon
Steps for Quick Puff Pastry Croissants with Ready-made Pastry
Unroll a rectangular puff pastry roll that we’ve left out of the fridge for a couple of minutes. Cut it in half lengthwise. Then divide it into triangles, as seen in the picture. If round, divide it into 8 wedges or more if you want smaller croissants.
Fill each triangle at the base with half a teaspoon of strawberry jam or whatever you prefer, even Nutella if you’re indulgent, or maybe with a savory filling for a fancy aperitif. Use less filling on the smaller triangles to ensure the filling is well sealed inside.
Roll up the triangles, starting from the base, spreading the two tips at the base outward to seal the filling inside the puff pastry, and gradually roll towards the tip.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 25 minutes, spaced apart on a baking tray, placed on the parchment paper in which the pastry is wrapped. Bake until our mini easy and quick puff pastry croissants filled with jam or Nutella, or even with a savory filling, are cooked, golden, and puffed. Let them cool a bit before enjoying. I baked them in my new Indesit oven.
If you like, before baking, you can brush them with egg or milk, and sprinkle with sugar, even brown sugar, or salt, for a savory and shiny version.
I made these puff pastry croissants right after lunch, before washing the dishes, I had such a craving for something sweet that I thought of using that roll of puff pastry that I always keep in the fridge, and I decided to make puff pastry croissants, filled with strawberry jam since I already had it open in the fridge, but you can use anything to fill them. They’re a great idea to satisfy that sudden craving for something fancy or sweet, they take 5 minutes to prepare, and just the time to wash the dishes, they’re ready to be taken out of the oven, a delightful idea when you have 2 ingredients, not needing more, and 5 minutes to prepare them.
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