What if cooking for Christmas Eve became child’s play? Every week until Christmas, we offer you a simple and festive recipe that will make young and old alike want to get their hands dirty. This week: a laminated tree.
Did you know that the Star Fairy loves to cook? It was Vanessa Pilon who told us. The one who donned the character’s costume during the last Santa Claus parade in Montreal, in 2019, passed this passion on to her 3-year-old daughter. “She really likes it, being in the kitchen,” she says.
Finding a recipe that the children would love to make (and eat) was therefore not a very complicated task for the mother.
The preparation of its puff pastry is quick and easy. “These are culinary gestures which are easy and which can be a bit missed without it being very serious”, explains the one who will co-host the show. To drink and to eat with Rémi-Pierre Paquin, on Télé-Québec, in the fall of 2022.
Brush with egg yolk, spread with garnish, sprinkle with sesame seeds: even toddlers will know how to do it.
Laminated fir can be trimmed in different ways. “We at home are very fond of pesto. I find it beautiful because the pesto keeps a little green. It goes well with the concept of the recipe. ”
The day after New Year’s Eve, leftover cheese platters or even mashed potatoes can be used to garnish this flaky Christmas tree.
When we listed a few choices of toppings for the little chefs, however, it was the chocolate-hazelnut spread that came out the winner.
Recipe
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You can decorate the tree with shapes cut from the leftover dough using cookie cutters.
Yield: 4 people
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 store-bought puff pastry
- 150 g of garnish (pesto, tapenade, tomato sauce, cheese spread, chocolate-hazelnut spread, etc.)
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp. sesame seeds (optional)
Preperation
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Cut the dough to form a triangle at the top of the tree and a rectangle at its base. Draw lines with a knife to make branches. The silhouette of the little cooks tree is a bit original since the middle branches are longer than those at the bottom.
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Twist the branches.
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The little cooks’ Christmas tree is ready to go in the oven.
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Here is the result with, as a bonus, some decorations.
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- Preheat the oven to 350 oF (175 oVS).
- Take the first puff pastry out of the refrigerator. Spread the filling, trying to leave 1 cm free all around.
- Take the second puff pastry out of the refrigerator and place it on top. Flatten quickly with your hands.
- Cut out a tree shape. Draw horizontal lines to make the branches.
- Twist the branches of the fir tree.
- Cut out shapes with a cookie cutter from the scraps to decorate the tree.
- Brush with egg yolk, then sprinkle the trunk with sesame seeds, if desired. Bake for 20 min.