Cinnamon Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Recipe
An amazing puff-pastry Christmas tree, filled with a spiced cranberry applesauce, topped with cinnamon and decorated with toddler-friendly treats.
Servings: 8 people
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 eating apples peeled and diced
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 320 g ready-rolled puff pastry
- 30 g dried cranberries chopped
- 1 tbsp whole milk
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 50 g toddler-friendly goodies
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C (180C fan, 400F). Place the chopped apple in a small pan with the cranberries and mixed spice, and approx 100ml (3.4 fl oz) of water.
- Place over a medium heat and cook down gently while stirring until you have a thick, red applesauce. Note: some apples break down more easily than others, so if you need to, you can add more water, or blitz the sauce down with a hand blender.
- Unroll your puff pastry and cut in half.
- Place one of your pastry halves on a board lined with baking paper.
- Spread the cooled applesauce all over the pastry, right to the edges.
- Press the other pastry half on top.
- Cut your Christmas tree shape.
- Slice 1cm/0.5 inch strips either side, leaving a couple of centimetres of 'trunk' clear up the middle of the tree.
- Twist each strip in the same direction all the way up both sides of the tree.
- Brush all over with milk.
- Sprinkle all over with the cinnamon.
- Transfer on to a baking sheet. Adding a diamond and a couple of thin triangles, made from your offcuts.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until gently golden.
- Once cooked and cooled, position the star in place and decorate with your choice of toddler-friendly goodies.
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Notes
Be sure to add the candies after the tree has baked and not before, otherwise they will most likely melt.
Nutrition
Calories: 246kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 101mg | Potassium: 49mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 12IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 1mg
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