Homemade baking is a creative endeavor, if you are passionate about it, then it means it is serious and for a long time. To be a real housewife, you don’t need special education, but just a great desire, and there are plenty of ways for self-education and self-development. Yes, there are no limits to the skill and imagination of our housewives. They will make “candy” from any available product. An incredibly simple product can be turned into an incredibly tasty dish. We will help you with this with our advice and proven recipes for preparing delicious, satisfying, healthy food for the whole family.
Probably the basis for the most delicious baked goods is puff pastry. You can create many wonderful dishes from it: sweet desserts and savory, hearty pies. This culinary semi-finished product has gained steady popularity among consumers.
The proposed recipe for making a layer cake filled with dark chocolate is simply a win-win option for lovers of home baking. If you use store-bought dough, you will have an elegant pie in half an hour.
Simple, fast, original! Chocolate lovers, treat yourself to this wonderful dish.
Required ingredients:
- Yeast-free puff pastry 1 layer
- Dark chocolate 1 bar
- Egg 1 pc.
Preparation:
Take 1 layer of puff pastry out of the freezer, defrost it, and roll it out with a rolling pin into a rectangular shape larger than the size of a chocolate bar. You can make puff pastry at home, you can see the recipe.
Place a chocolate bar in the middle of the layer and make horizontal cuts 1.5-2 cm wide on both sides. It is advisable to make the cuts obliquely. We cut out the outer cubes - we don’t need them. You can make a small puff pastry out of them.
We place the upper and lower parts on the chocolate bar, and place the side strips one on top of the other. In other words, we braid the hair. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, then lay out the puff pastry.
Break an egg into a cup, beat with a whisk, and using a brush, evenly brush the top of our “Pigtail” layer cake.
You can sprinkle grated nuts on top. Place in an oven preheated to 220 degrees and bake for 20 minutes.
An amazing ruddy pie for a family tea party is ready, now let the baked goods cool and cut into portions. Such an original homemade dish will create coziness in your home, and your loved ones will appreciate your culinary skills.
Bon appetit!
Try making the “Snowflake” pie from puff pastry; we used glazed cheese curds as the filling, recipe.
Chocolate puffs are an amazingly airy, sweet and delicate dessert with melted chocolate and a unique vanilla aroma. This is a great reason to get together for a warm family tea party. The recipe for making puff pastries is very simple, the number of ingredients is minimal, so even a novice cook can prepare such an appetizing dessert.
Ingredients
To prepare aromatic puffs with chocolate paste, you will need a minimum of ingredients - dough (you can use ready-made yeast or yeast-free dough), chocolate and an egg.
If you don't have the time or inclination to roll out puff pastry, buy pre-rolled sheets.
Required products for puff pastries:
- ready puff pastry – 1 kg;
- dark chocolate – 200 g;
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- powdered sugar - at your discretion.
For puff pastry, you can use not only black chocolate, but also milk chocolate. It all depends on the taste preferences of the cook.
It is better not to use store-bought chocolate paste or glaze, as during the cooking process it will become too liquid and will leak out of the puffs.
Cooking steps
- If baked goods are made from a frozen base, they must be thawed first. It is better to do this naturally, without using a microwave oven. Place the layer on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for several hours - it will quickly defrost without losing its taste.
- Break the chocolate bar into equal rectangles, beat the eggs with a whisk or blender.
- Place the sheet of dough on a table previously sprinkled with flour and cut into rectangles about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide. These are blanks for future puff pastries.
- Step back a little from the edge of the sheet and lay out a piece of chocolate. Brush the edges with beaten egg and roll up. Thanks to the egg, the dessert will keep a beautiful shape and will not fall apart.
- Line a baking tray with a sheet of baking paper and brush the top of each puff pastry with the egg mixture.
- Place in the oven, preheated to 220° for half an hour. Sprinkle the finished puff pastries with powdered sugar.
For decoration, you can melt a few slices of chocolate in a water bath and pour the glaze over the baked goods. Puff pastry produces incredibly soft chocolate puffs that have an airy texture.
A sweet and extremely tasty dessert can be prepared from a whole sweet bar without breaking it into slices. Original and unusual pastries will become a real decoration of any table, and are prepared in a matter of minutes.
Required Products:
- finished dough – 350 g;
- dark chocolate – 100 g;
- chicken eggs – 1 pc.
- Lightly sprinkle the working surface with wheat flour and place the defrosted layer on it. Place a chocolate bar in the center.
- Cut the edges into wide strips of approximately the same size. The cuts can be made straight or the knife can be moved slightly obliquely.
- Using the cut side strips, carefully wrap the chocolate bar without gaps so that the puff pastry has a neat rectangular shape.
- Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and brush generously with beaten egg. Bake the puff pastry in the oven at 190° until an appetizing golden color.
The finished chocolate bar in the dough can be decorated at your discretion - with powdered sugar, candied fruits, coconut flakes, fresh berries.
From the combination of puff pastry and a chocolate bar, you can make many other, no less tasty and appetizing desserts. For example, both adults and little sweet tooths will appreciate the original cake.
Let's prepare the products:
- puff pastry – 1 kg;
- chocolate bar – 2 pcs.;
- condensed milk – 200 g;
- butter – 120 g.
Step-by-step cooking technology:
- We start preparing the pie by baking the cake layers: preheat the oven to 220°, place the pre-rolled layer on a baking sheet greased with sunflower oil and bake for about 8 minutes. This must be done with each sheet.
- Prepare the filling: break the chocolate bars into pieces, pour into a small saucepan and place in a water bath (place the saucepan in a larger saucepan of boiling water). When the chocolate begins to melt, add butter to it.
- Mix the glaze thoroughly until it has a uniform consistency and remove from the stove. Add condensed milk to the saucepan and stir well again.
- Cut each baked cake into 4 identical squares, then begin to form the cake.
- Lay out the cakes one at a time, pouring glaze over each one. The number of layers depends only on your imagination.
- Decorate the top cake with powdered sugar, coconut, chopped walnuts or almonds, raisins, berries or pieces of fruit. The pie sprinkled with grated white chocolate looks very appetizing and interesting.
Chocolate puffs are an amazingly delicious, mouth-watering pastry that will surpass any store-bought desserts in taste. The ease and simplicity of preparation will appeal to any housewife, and the magnificent, refined taste will be remembered by every guest.
Puff pastry is loved by many because baked goods from it always turn out delicious. The most delicious and versatile thing made from puff pastry is puff pastry. They come with everything: apples, cottage cheese, condensed milk, cheese, sausages. But of course, the most delicious ones are with chocolate. This is a kind of answer to French croissants, which is in no way inferior in taste and visual appeal.
Chocolate and puff pastry seem to be made for each other: under the delicate juicy layers there is a viscous chocolate middle. A chocolate puff, which has a very high calorie content, will give you a feeling of fullness, a good mood and “bring back to life” the most unsuccessful day.
So, as they say, take some pens and paper! Now you will learn many delicious recipes that will win the hearts of your loved ones.
Simple puff pastry step by step
In order to prepare puff pastries, you need to prepare the base - puff pastry. This dough is quick and easy to prepare, and most importantly, the likelihood of failure is reduced to zero. And baked goods made from puff pastry always turn out exceptional and tasty.
In order to prepare dough weighing 700 - 800 g, you need the following:
Ingredients:
- Butter – 200 gr.;
- Egg – 1 pc.;
- Water – 250 ml;
- Flour – 500 gr.;
- Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp;
- Sugar – 1 tsp;
- Salt – 1 tsp;
- Table vinegar – 1 tbsp.
Please note: the water for the test must be warm. Also, remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance to soften it.
Cooking steps:
- Pour a glass of water into a deep bowl and add salt and sugar to it. Mix well until the bulk products are completely dissolved;
- Add vinegar to the mixture and stir;
- Break the egg into a bowl and mix well;
- Add pre-sifted flour in portions to the liquid mixture and knead the dough;
- Divide the dough into four equal parts and roll them into rectangles;
- Each part, like a sandwich, is coated with a thick layer of butter;
- Take a rolling pin and carefully, starting from the beginning of the rectangle, roll the dough and butter onto it;
- When the rolling pin is in the “coat” of dough, cut it lengthwise. We get a tall, smaller rectangle;
- Fold it in half, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator.
Please note: the dough should be elastic, dense, but soft. If necessary, you can increase or decrease the amount of flour.
Puff pastry with sour cream in five minutes
Ingredients:
- Butter – 200 gr.;
- Sour cream – 100 gr.;
- Egg – 1 pc.;
- Flour – 350 gr.;
- A pinch of salt.
Cooking steps:
- Sift flour into a bowl;
- Add butter to the flour and knead everything well with your hands until crumbs form;
- Add sour cream and one egg yolk to the mixture;
- Knead the dough. It should be non-sticky and elastic.
Attention: If you are lazy or don't have time to prepare the dough yourself, just buy it at the store. It will be no worse than homemade and will save your energy and time.
That's all! The delicious puff pastry is ready, now it’s time to think about the chocolate filling.
Chocolate heart
The dough is dough, and what you fill it with will determine the taste of the puff pastry. Therefore, you need to choose the filling wisely:
- It should be chocolate, not sugar. Choose one with a good percentage of cocoa and a minimum of flavors and dyes. If you chose chocolate paste for the filling, apply the same rule to it;
- The chocolate paste should be thick so that it does not leak out during baking;
- Do not use sugar when preparing fillings; it is better to replace it with powdered sugar, otherwise you will feel “sand” on your teeth;
- A convenient replacement for a whole chocolate bar are chocolate “buttons”, which also come in different types and are sold by weight.
Universal chocolate cream:
Ingredients:
- Cocoa powder – 50 gr.;
- Powdered sugar – 200 gr.;
- Butter – 100 gr.
Please note: do not under any circumstances replace cocoa powder with cocoa drinks! They contain sugar and milk powder, which will ruin the taste of the cream.
Cooking steps:
- 1. Mix cocoa and powdered sugar in a deep bowl;
- 2. Add butter and knead everything with your hands to form a dense chocolate lump;
- 3. Pinch off small pieces from the lump and place in the future puff pastry.
Please note: the oil must be very soft, so remove it from the refrigerator in advance, or place it on the radiator.
Chocolate custard:
Ingredients: 
- Milk – 250 ml;
- Powdered sugar – 50 gr.;
- Corn starch – 30 g;
- Cocoa – 1 tbsp;
- Butter – 10 g;
- Egg – 3 pcs.;
- Flour 30 gr.
Cooking steps:
- Separate the yolks from the whites into a separate bowl;
- Add cocoa, starch and flour to the yolks and mix thoroughly;
- Pour the milk into a saucepan and add powdered sugar to it;
- Place the pan over low heat and bring almost to a boil;
- Stirring constantly, very carefully pour the milk into the bowl with the yolks in a thin stream. The yolks must not be allowed to boil!
- Pour everything back into the pan and place on low heat;
- We constantly interfere;
- When the cream boils, cook, stirring, for about half a minute;
- Remove the cream from the heat and put butter in it;
- Stir until the oil dissolves.
If you combine universal puff pastry and universal chocolate, you will get an excellent chocolate puff pastry! But we know that even buckwheat porridge can be prepared in different ways, which is why each housewife’s recipe is unique, as is the taste of her baked goods.
Recipe for banana and chocolate puffs
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry – 450 gr.;
- Egg – 1 pc.;
- Banana – 2 large;
- – 40 gr.;
Cooking steps:
Puff envelopes with chocolate
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry – 500 gr.;
- Egg – 1 pc.;
- Chocolate (milk or bitter) – 1 bar;
Cooking steps:
- Roll out the dough into a square shape;
- Cut the dough into 9 small squares;
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces with a knife;
- Place chocolate in the center of the squares;
- We connect the opposite edges of the squares together in the center. Pinch the center well;
- Place the envelopes on a baking sheet and brush them with egg yolk;
- Bake the chocolate puffs for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
Roll with nuts and chocolate made from puff pastry
Ingredients: 
- Puff pastry dough – 250 gr.;
- Chocolate (milk) – 1 bar;
- Walnuts – 100 gr.;
- Egg - 1 piece.
Cooking steps:
- Roll out the dough, but do not make it too thin;
- Place the entire chocolate bar in the middle of the resulting rectangle;
- Chop the nuts with a knife or grind in a blender;
- Sprinkle the chocolate with nuts. Leave a few nuts for decoration;
- Make horizontal cuts along the sides of the dough rectangle;
- “Weave” the filling into the dough;
- Place the roll on a silicone mat or parchment paper on a baking sheet;
- Beat the egg well and brush the surface of the roll with it;
- Decorate the top of the roll with nuts;
- Bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes at 200 degrees.
Look carefully at the recipe with the photo, “braiding the dough” just sounds scary, but in fact it is very easy.
Instead of walnuts, you can also use hazelnuts, pecans, orange zest and coconut.
Croissants with chocolate
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry – 500 gr.;
- Chocolate spread – 1 jar;
- Egg – 1 pc.
Cooking steps:
- Roll out the dough into a large circle;
- Cut the circle into pieces as if you were cutting a pizza;
- On the wide part, slightly backing from the edge, place a little chocolate paste with a spoon;
- Start rolling the croissant from the wide edge to the spout;
- Place the croissants on a baking sheet so that the tip is at the bottom, otherwise the product may unfold;
- Bake for about 15 minutes at 230 degrees.
Cinnamon Chocolate Walnut Raisin Rolls
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry – 400 gr.;
- Raisins – 150 gr.;
- Walnuts – 100 gr.;
- Chocolate spread (cream) – 300 gr.;
- Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
Cooking steps:
- Roll out the dough into a rectangle;
- Soak raisins and nuts in warm water for about 15 minutes;
- Grind the nuts with a knife or blender;
- Chop the chocolate with a knife. It may melt in a blender;
- Combine raisins, nuts, chocolate and cinnamon in a bowl. Mix;
- Spread the filling evenly over the dough;
- Roll the dough into a log and use a very sharp knife to cut it into small pieces. Be careful, the filling may crumble due to heterogeneity;
- Place the pieces on a baking sheet lined with baking paper;
- Cook the rolls in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
Secret: If you sprinkle the baked goods with cold water before putting them in the oven, they will turn out more rosy and crispy.
Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a hot chocolate puff and let the whole world wait!
When you want something sweet for tea, prepare a layered chocolate cake, the recipe for which we will give you today. Preparing a layer cake with chocolate is quick and easy, even your children can bake it. The composition of a culinary dish includes a minimum of ingredients.
Chocolate puff pastry pie recipe
The chocolate puff pastry pie recipe includes:
- a sheet of puff pastry (can be bought at any supermarket);
- a bar of chocolate (you can use any chocolate, but black or milk is recommended);
- one chicken egg (raw);
- butter (a little);
- nuts (to taste).
Prepare a quick pie from puff pastry, seasoned with chocolate, in the oven. There are several homemade recipes for baking puff pastry pie with chocolate (black or milk). We will present a classic recipe for a pie with chocolate filling, and you can improvise to your taste while baking.
Those with a sweet tooth will appreciate the taste of this simple pastry. To make the process faster, we recommend using store-bought puff pastry. It needs to be defrosted and rolled out. Wrap the chocolate used as a filling in the dough, place the prepared form on a baking sheet and bake in the oven.
It will take a maximum of 20-25 minutes to prepare the baked goods. The result is a puff pastry pie with chocolate inside that is unusual and incredibly tasty.
Ingredients
To prepare a layered chocolate pie from dough, you will need 2 sheets of ready-made store-bought puff pastry with a total weight of up to 0.5 kg.
In addition, you need the following ingredients for puff pastry:
- 2 bars of dark or white chocolate, weighing 100 g each;
- a little powdered sugar;
- a handful of peanuts or chopped walnuts;
- for adding a little flour or starch;
- 1 chicken egg and butter.
You can improvise with additional ingredients to your taste - sprinkle the pie with sesame seeds, raisins, coconut flakes or just powdered sugar.
Step-by-step preparation
So, you can prepare a puff pastry pie with chocolate as follows.
Step I: To make the chocolate puff pastry roll, defrost the purchased dough. Cover it with a napkin to prevent it from drying out and keep it at room temperature. A standard package contains 2 sheets of puff pastry. If the room is warm, after 15 minutes you can start shaping the cake.
Step II. Sprinkle the table with flour or starch and roll out each sheet of dough so that it is 2 or 3 times wider than the chocolate bar. The height of the sheet should be approximately 3-5 centimeters greater than the tile. Before rolling out the dough, turn on the oven to preheat.
Step III. Place the rolled out sheet of dough on the parchment and place a chocolate bar in the middle of the sheet. Alternatively, you can cut the chocolate into pieces and place each piece on the dough at a short distance. In this case, the chocolate layer cake will appear larger in size due to the fact that the chocolate has melted.
Step IV. Take a knife and cut the sheet on both sides slightly obliquely into even strips (about 2 cm wide). Remove the corner parts. This way the layer cake will look aesthetically pleasing. Now grease the resulting cut parts with beaten egg 2/3 - this will give them fixation during baking. “Pack” the parts of the dough onto a chocolate bar - cover the chocolate with the top and bottom, then alternately with strips on the right and left, that is, crosswise.
You should get a kind of braid. Cut off and remove all excess. Brush the top of the layer cake with beaten egg to seal it during baking. The resulting form can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or ground walnuts.
Step V. Form the second layer cake in exactly the same way.
Step VI. Pre-grease the baking sheet with butter. You can replace it with odorless vegetable oil. The parchment with the formed pies should be placed on a baking sheet and baked in a heated oven at a temperature of 180-200 °C for 20-25 minutes. You should not focus on time; watch the degree of browning of the top of the layer cake.
You can check the readiness of the dish by piercing the pie with a match or a wooden stick. If nothing sticks to them, then the layer cake is ready and can be served.
If the dough sticks to a match or stick, the dish needs to be kept in the oven a little longer. To make the product soft, after removing it from the oven, it is recommended to cover it with a damp towel for 1-2 minutes. The baked goods will absorb moisture and become tender and soft.
The finished layer cake can be served hot or cooled. If you cut the dish while it is hot, the layers may stick together and the baked goods will lose their appearance. However, this will not make the layer cake any less tasty.
You can serve chocolate layer cake with tea, milk, coffee and other hot drinks.
Video about making chocolate layer cake
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Tips for the recipe for puff pastry pie with chocolate
I would like to give some tips for the “chocolate layer cake” recipe that will help you prepare it, and it will look very appetizing.
Making your own puff pastry
The dough for making chocolate puff pastry can be purchased at the store, but you can also make it yourself. This will increase the time spent making the pie. To make it you will need 450 g of flour, 400 g of high-quality butter, a glass of water three-quarters full, two eggs, 6 drops of vinegar, a third of a teaspoon of salt.
You need to sift the flour, add all the ingredients (except oil) and knead the dough. The resulting mass should stand for a maximum of 15 minutes. Then add butter to the rolled out dough, fold it into an envelope and roll it out three times, each time cooling it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
How to avoid burning the dough
To avoid burning when baking, leave a bowl of water in the oven. It makes no difference what type of dough is used for baking. It can be of any type. You can grease the bottom of the mold with salt.
Long-term storage of finished baked goods
Pies seem fresh for a long time if they are stored in clay dishes, covered with a napkin or towel. This way they retain their taste for a long time.
Chicken egg substitutes
One chicken egg in sweet pastries can be replaced with:
- one tablespoon of cornstarch, diluted with two to three tablespoons of liquid;
- one banana, blended in a blender until liquid;
- two to three tablespoons of soy flour, whisked with a small amount of water until foamy.
Calorie content of foods possible in the dish
Whatever you cook - chocolate cake, chocolate layer cake, chocolate brownie - you can calculate the calorie content of the prepared baked goods using a calorie calculator.
Conventionally, all prepared dishes are divided into simple and complex based on calorie content.
The calorie content of simple dishes corresponds to the calorie content of their ingredients, since the weight of simple dishes does not change during the cooking process. Simple dishes include, for example, salads.
As for the calorie content of complex dishes, here everything happens exactly the opposite. Some ingredients of such dishes lose moisture during the cooking process, while others, on the contrary, absorb it. At the same time, the weight of the finished dish changes compared to the mass of its ingredients.
If you enter the data of the ingredients of a layer cake with chocolate into the calculator, then if the finished dish weighs 1 kg, the calorie content of 100 g will be 163 kcal, and the total calorie content of the finished dish will be 1630 kcal.
The table below shows the number of kilocalories included in the possible ingredients of a culinary product:
| Ingredients | Weight in grams | Number of kilocalories |
| Egg white | 100 | 45 |
| Egg yolk | 100 | 352 |
| Egg powder | 100 | 542 |
| Chicken egg | 100 | 157 |
| Ostrich egg | 100 | 118 |
| Walnut oil | 100 | 925 |
| Walnuts | 100 | 650 |
| Black English walnut | 100 | 628 |
| Black Persian walnut | 100 | 651 |
| Puff pastry | 100 | 400 |
| Puff pastry, fresh | 100 | 337 |
| Bitter chocolate | 100 | 539 |
We wish you bon appetit, culinary success and look forward to new recipes on the pages of our website!
Puff pastry croissants with chocolate are a classic of the genre, the simplest products that can be baked from ready-made puff layers. But they are far from the only ones - from this type of dough you can make braids, rolls, braids, puff pastries, cookies, cakes, and pastries. The secret to the popularity of chocolate croissants made from puff pastry and other similar baked goods is their ease of preparation and excellent taste.
What is puff pastry made from at home?
Among all culinary and confectionery products, the most popular are puff pastry pastries. It has a special taste and calorie content, various fillings and additives. Puff pastry products are served as snacks and as an excellent dessert.
For baking, both ready-made puff pastry (semi-finished product) and homemade dough are used. Products made from homemade puff pastry have a wonderful taste, melt in your mouth and confirm the culinary skills of the housewife. There are many recipes for puff pastry, and you can choose the one that tastes best to you and turns out better.
To prepare the products, puff pastry is cut into layers, rectangles, squares, diamonds or shapes, and then sent to the oven. Baked goods are also prepared from this dough by first giving it a certain shape. This is how bows, bagels, envelopes and other goodies are baked.
What is puff pastry made from at home? The main components of puff pastry are flour, butter, water and salt. Organic acids (acetic, citric, tartaric) and sometimes alcohol are also added to it.
Only premium grade wheat flour is used to prepare the dough. It should be dry, freshish-sweet in taste. It is pre-sifted to enrich it with oxygen. Baking made from sifted flour is always fluffier and tastier.
The water for the test is cold, but not ice-cold. Usually it is taken in volume 2 times less than flour.
Water in puff pastry can be replaced with milk. In this case, the baked goods will be more tasty, but the dough will be less elastic. Therefore, it is better to use milk diluted with water. Egg yolks can replace milk and water in puff pastry. The dough with them will turn out more fluffy and tender.
Salt improves the taste of puff pastry and increases its elasticity. It is important to follow the recipe and add salt in the specified amount, otherwise the baked goods will turn out to be of poor quality.
Butter (or creamy margarine) is pre-cooled. You can use salted butter, then salt is added to the dough in smaller quantities. The higher the fat content in the oil, the fluffier the baked goods. The butter is prepared in a special way before being added to the dough.
Acids (citric, acetic, tartaric) or lemon juice significantly improve the elasticity and taste of puff pastry.
Creams, berries and pieces of fruit, dried fruits, and powdered sugar are used as additional components when baking puff pastry. Puff pastry allows you to prepare a huge range of baked goods.
The great advantage of puff pastry is the speed of baking. It bakes well, and if it burns a little on the bottom, it’s easy to fix. It is enough to remove the burnt layer with a knife, and no one will guess that you left the baking at high temperature for a minute or two. Therefore, baking from ready-made puff pastry is within the capabilities of even novice cooks, and there will come the experience of making such dough with your own hands. A variety of fillings will allow you to surprise your loved ones every time with new pies, puff pastries and other products and your favorite puff pastry.
Pies with chocolate from puff pastry in the oven
Closed layer cake with chocolate and cherries
Ingredients:
- 500 g puff pastry
- 250 g pitted cherries
- 200 g chocolate spread
- 50 g each of dried apricots, raisins
- 1 egg
- butter
- 3 tsp. sugar
- cinnamon
- 1 tbsp. l. water
Preparation:
Break the egg into a separate bowl and beat a little. About 1 tbsp. l. Transfer the resulting mass into a separate glass, add water and stir. Add pasta and cinnamon to the bowl with the remaining egg mixture and stir. Wash the dried apricots and raisins and pass through a meat grinder along with the cherries.
Divide the puff pastry for chocolate pie in half and roll out 2 layers, the dimensions of which correspond to the size of your baking sheet or baking dish, trim off any overhanging edges if necessary.
Grease a baking sheet with oil, place the first layer of dough on it, spread chocolate paste and cherries with dried apricots and raisins on top, cover with the second layer and carefully seal the edges. Brush the pie with a mixture of eggs and water, decorate with any design and sprinkle with sugar. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200°C for 20–30 minutes.
Layer cake with chocolate
Ingredients:
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- puff pastry – 1 pack (2 sheets)
- butter – 100 g
- condensed milk – 0.5 cans
- chocolate - 1 bar.
Cooking method:
Preparing a puff pastry pie with chocolate inside is very simple and quite quick, especially if you use store-bought dough. You can choose any brand and type of puff pastry. After all, each will make excellent flaky, fragile cakes.
To defrost the finished puff pastry, simply place it on the kitchen counter. The fact is that puff pastry is very delicate, so it is advisable to defrost it at room temperature.
1. Roll out each sheet of dough into a thin layer.
Grease a baking sheet with sunflower oil, carefully place the rolled out sheet of dough onto it and bake in a preheated oven for 7 minutes. Puff pastry is prepared at a high temperature of 220 degrees.
2. While the cakes are cooling, prepare the chocolate cream. Remember his recipe, you will need it more than once to prepare a wide variety of desserts and cakes. The fantastic taste of this chocolate cream will blow your mind and will definitely be remembered by your guests. The cream is prepared in a water bath. Therefore, prepare special dishes in advance: a larger pan in which the water will boil, and a smaller pan in which our wonderful cream will be cooked.
Break the chocolate bar into pieces. You can use it, the main thing is that the tiles are without various fillings and other additives.
Add a piece of butter to the chocolate.
3. Send the couple to a water bath. Gradually the chocolate and butter will begin to melt. Stir them, turning them into a liquid homogeneous mass.
Once you have achieved this, remove the pan from the heat and add half a can of condensed milk to the cream. Mix well. The masses are quite thick, so you need to make an effort to combine them well into one whole. As a result, you will get a beautiful, fragrant, slightly viscous chocolate cream.
4. Cooled puff pastries need to be trimmed so that the edges of the pie end up looking neat. You can divide each cake into smaller squares and then you will get several cakes. In any case, “cut” shapes of the same size from the cakes.
By the way, you need to form a puff pastry cake with chocolate, cooked in the oven, immediately on the dish on which you will serve the dessert. Pour the top layer of the pie generously with cream so that it begins to flow down the sides of your delicacy. Grind the cake scraps. They are so fragile that you can do it by hand. Sprinkle the resulting crumbs generously over the top of the pie.
Puff pastry chocolate roll recipes
Puff rolls with chocolate and cinnamon
Ingredients:
500 g puff pastry, 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 egg yolk, 4 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tbsp. l. butter, 2 tbsp. l. powdered sugar
Preparation:
Roll out the puff pastry for the chocolate roll on a floured work surface, cut into strips 20 cm wide. Beat the egg yolk with sugar, add cocoa powder and cinnamon, mix. Grease the dough with melted butter, then apply a thin layer of egg-chocolate mixture, roll and cut into pieces 2-3 cm thick. Place the rolls on a baking sheet and bake at 200 ° C until ready. Sprinkle the cooled rolls with powdered sugar.
Puff rolls with chocolate glaze and prunes
Ingredients:
- 400 g puff pastry
- For filling: 300 g prunes, 150 g dark raisins, 2-3 tbsp. l. chopped walnuts, 1 tbsp. l. powdered sugar, 1 tsp. starch
- For the glaze: 100 g dark chocolate, 4 tbsp. l. butter
Preparation:
Roll out the dough into a layer, cut into strips 25 cm wide. Rinse the prunes and raisins, add hot water, leave for 15-20 minutes, then drain the water, squeeze out the dried fruits and pass through a meat grinder. Add nuts, starch and powdered sugar to the fruit mixture and knead thoroughly. Spread the filling in an even layer over the dough, roll it up and cut into pieces 2 cm wide. Place the rolls on a floured baking sheet and bake at 200°C until done. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, add butter, stir until the mixture is homogeneous, and cool slightly. Pour warm glaze over puff pastry rolls with chocolate and let set.
Layered rolls with white chocolate, prunes and coconut flakes
Ingredients:
400 g puff pastry, 300 g pitted dates, 4 tbsp. l. coconut flakes, 100 g white chocolate, 2 tbsp. l. powdered sugar
Preparation:
Roll out the dough into a layer on a floured work surface, cut into strips 20-25 cm wide. Pass the dates through a meat grinder, mix with coconut flakes and grated white chocolate on a medium grater. Spread the mixture in an even layer on the dough, roll it up, cut into pieces 2 cm wide. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake at 200-220 °C until done. Sprinkle the cooled rolls with powdered sugar.
Puff roll with chocolate impregnation
Ingredients:
flour – 400 g, lard – 120 g, egg – 1 pc., vinegar, warm salted water; for filling: eggs – 6 pcs., apples – 1250 g, lemon – 1 pc., sugar – 350 g, rum – 100 g, chocolate – 100 g, orange – 1 pc., flour – 120 g, vanillin.
From 400 g of flour, 20 g of lard, 1 egg, vinegar, warm salted water, knead puff pastry, brush with melted lard, cover with a napkin and leave on the board. Then stretch the dough into a thin layer on a tablecloth sprinkled with flour, dry it and grease it again with melted lard.
Before preparing a chocolate roll from puff pastry, you need to knead a biscuit mass of 6 eggs, 120 g of sugar, 120 g of flour, lemon juice, divide it into 20 parts and place it on a stretched sheet in tubercles at the same distance (6–8 cm) from each other. Press half of a small, peeled, soft apple into each biscuit mound.
Carefully roll up the puff layer and place the resulting roll in a greased baking sheet. Grease the surface of the product with melted lard and bake until golden brown.
From the remaining sugar, 200 g of water, 100 g of chocolate, vanillin, make syrup, cool and add orange and lemon juices, grated orange and lemon zest, and rum. Soak the roll with the resulting solution.
Puff roll "Canada"
Ingredients:
- For the test: 1½ cups flour, 100 g butter, ½ cup water, ⅓ teaspoon salt.
- For filling: 3 tbsp. tablespoons flour, 100 g butter, 100 g chocolate, 1 cup sugar.
Preparation:
Prepare puff pastry. While the dough is in the refrigerator, prepare the filling: pour sifted flour into a frying pan, fry it, stirring constantly, until light yellow, then add butter, chocolate and fry a little more. After this, remove the pan from the heat and immediately add sugar. Mix the filling thoroughly and cool. Divide the finished dough into two parts, roll each into a round or square layer, lay the filling on it in an even layer and roll it up. According to this recipe, both puff pastry rolls with chocolate should be placed seam side down on a greased baking sheet, placed in an oven heated to 210 °C and baked until done.
Look at the photo of puff pastry rolls with chocolate, prepared at home:
Chocolate puff pastry cookie recipes
Puff pastry with chocolate
Ingredients:
500 g puff pastry, 100 g dark chocolate, 100 g white chocolate, 4 tbsp. l. butter, 3-4 tbsp. l. nuts
Preparation:
Roll out the puff pastry for cookies with chocolate into a layer 5 mm thick, cut into rectangles measuring 5 × 7 mm and bake in the oven until ready. The cookies should remain slightly warm. Melt dark chocolate in a water bath, add butter, grease one cookie and cover with another. Grate white chocolate on a medium grater and sprinkle over warm cookies. The chocolate should melt a little. Immediately sprinkle the chopped nuts on top of the cookies on top of the white chocolate.
Puff cookies with chocolate “Hearts”
Ingredients:
400 g puff pastry, 4 tbsp. l. sour cream, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 100 g dark chocolate.
Preparation:
To prepare liver from puff pastry with chocolate, you need to roll out a layer 3-5 mm thick and divide it in half. Sprinkle one layer with coarsely grated chocolate, place the second layer on it, and press a little. Use a heart-shaped notch to cut out the cookies, place them on a baking sheet and bake at 200-210 °C until done. Combine sugar with cocoa, add sour cream, mix. Place the mixture over low heat and, stirring continuously, cook until it begins to boil. Immediately remove the icing from the heat, cool slightly, brush the cooled cookies and sprinkle with grated chocolate.
Chocolate orange puff pastry
Ingredients:
600 g puff pastry, 100-150 g dark chocolate, 2 tbsp. l. butter, 200 ml orange juice, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 tsp. gelatin
Preparation:
Roll out the dough into a layer 5-7 mm thick, cut out round cakes with a diameter of 5-6 cm. Make a notch in the middle with a spoon or pestle, place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake at 200 ° C until ready. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, add butter, stir. Using a brush, apply warm glaze to the indentation to form a chocolate “bowl.” Dissolve gelatin in warm orange juice, stir, add 2 tbsp. l. sugar, stir again, cool and pour the juice with gelatin using a teaspoon into the recesses greased with chocolate. Carefully place the cookies on a plate and refrigerate until the jelly hardens.
Croissants made from ready-made puff pastry: step-by-step recipes with video
It is better to prepare croissants from puff pastry with yeast - in this case they turn out more fluffy. Here are two step-by-step recipes for puff pastry croissants that are easy to prepare at home.
Layered croissants with chocolate
Ingredients:
500 g puff pastry dough, 200 g chocolate, 3 tbsp. l. butter, 1 tsp. starch, 2 tsp. powdered sugar
Preparation:
According to the recipe, puff pastry for chocolate croissants should be rolled out on a floured work surface into a layer 3-5 mm thick and cut into triangles. Soften the chocolate in a water bath, mix with butter, starch and powdered sugar, let cool a little so that the mass is very thick, but does not harden. Place the filling on the base of the triangle and roll it up. Place the croissants on a baking sheet, leave for 10 minutes and bake in an oven heated to 220-230 °C until ready.
Layered croissants with chocolate and marzipan
Ingredients:
500 g puff pastry dough, 200-250 g almonds, 200 g sugar, 50 ml water, 100 g chocolate, 4 tbsp. l. butter
Preparation:
Prepare marzipan mass from ground almonds, sugar and water. Roll out the puff pastry into a layer 4-5 mm thick, cut into triangles, place the filling on the base of the triangle and roll it up. Place the croissants on a floured baking sheet and leave for 10 minutes. Bake in an oven heated to 220°C. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, add butter, stir until the glaze is homogeneous. Brush croissants made from ready-made puff pastry with chocolate, melted until liquid, sprinkle with chopped almonds.
Watch the video “Croissants with chocolate from puff pastry” to better understand baking technology:
Chocolate cakes made from yeast-free puff pastry
Puff pastry with chocolate and nuts
Ingredients:
500 g ready-made puff pastry, 250 g butter, 250 g chopped nuts, 100 g boiled condensed milk, 50 g grated chocolate, a few drops of rum essence
Preparation:
To prepare a chocolate cake from puff pastry, you need to roll out a layer 4-5 mm thick, cut out cakes with a diameter of 5-6 cm, 3-4 pieces each, using a sharp round notch. for one cake. Place them on a baking sheet moistened with water. Bake at 260°C until golden brown. Cool. For the cream, beat the butter with a mixer until smooth, adding condensed milk. Add grated chocolate and essence. Layer the finished cakes with cream and combine. Grease the top and sides of the cakes with cream and sprinkle with chopped roasted nuts.
Chocolate puff pastry cake
Ingredients:
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- 250 g puff pastry
- 100 g raspberries
- 200 g milk chocolate
- 3 peaches
- 1 egg
- butter
- powdered sugar
Preparation:
Roll out the yeast-free puff pastry for chocolate cakes and cut out 3 circles, the diameter of which would be slightly larger than the diameter of the peaches.
Rinse the raspberries thoroughly and sort them. Wash the peaches, halve them, remove the pits and cut into small slices. Also divide the chocolate into small pieces. Beat the egg.
Place peach and chocolate slices in a circle on the dough circles, a few raspberries in the center, brush with egg. Grease a baking sheet with oil, place the prepared cakes and place in an oven preheated to 200 °C for 10–15 minutes. Sprinkle the finished cakes with powdered sugar.
As you can see in the photo, puff pastry cakes with chocolate according to these recipes look very appetizing:
Puff pastry with chocolate
Ingredients:
- 450 g puff pastry
- 100 g melted chocolate
- 50 g granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- butter
Preparation:
Roll out the puff pastry for baking with chocolate into a layer 5–10 mm thick and place on a baking tray pre-greased with butter. Lightly beat the egg, brush the mixture onto the dough, sprinkle with sugar and leave for 10 minutes. Cut the dough prepared in this way into small cubes approximately 5 × 10 cm.
Place the baking tray with the cakes in an oven preheated to 200°C for 15–20 minutes. Remove the finished bars from the oven and pour melted chocolate over them.
Holiday cake with chocolate puff pastry
Ingredients:
- 400 g puff pastry
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 50 g of any berries
- 1 egg yolk
- butter
- sugar
- coconut flakes
Rinse the berries and sort them thoroughly. Chop the chocolate into pieces. Beat the yolk a little.
Roll out the dough into a layer 5–10 mm thick, cut into several triangles and give each one a Christmas tree look.
Grease a baking tray, lay out the dough, brush it with beaten yolk, decorate with berries and small pieces of chocolate, placing decorations at the ends of the “branches” of the Christmas tree. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200°C for 20–30 minutes. Remove the finished cakes from the oven and sprinkle with coconut flakes and powdered sugar.
Chocolate puff pastry cakes “Magic Chest”
Ingredients:
- 200 g flour, 200 g butter, 1/2 cup water, 1 g salt.
- For cream: 100 g powdered sugar, 1/4 cup milk, 100 g chocolate, 1 tsp. flour, 1 g vanillin, 4 eggs, 50 - 70 g nuts for sprinkling.
Cooking method. Pour flour onto the board in a heap, pour cold water in which salt is dissolved into the depression in the middle. Using a knife, knead the dough and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Place the finished dough on a floured board and roll it out into a layer 1 cm thick. In the middle, place a piece of butter 2 times thicker than the dough layer, and 2 times smaller in size. Cover the layer of butter with the edges of the dough in the form of an envelope and roll out with a rolling pin. Then fold the layer in half again and roll out lengthwise so that the folded edge remains on the right. Repeat this process 2 more times, placing the dough in the refrigerator for 15 minutes after each rolling. For the last time, roll out the dough into a layer 3–5 mm thick, cut into 2 parts and bake on a sheet in a low-heat oven.
Boil milk with vanilla and chocolate. Beat the yolks with sugar and flour, add hot milk. Bring this mixture to the consistency of sour cream over heat, adding whipped egg whites at the end of the procedure. While stirring, heat the entire mixture over the fire. Then brush the cooled baked dough layer with this mixture and cover with the second layer.
Also grease the top with cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts (walnuts or hazelnuts). Cut the product into even pieces measuring 6x10 or 4x7 cm.
Layered chocolate cakes with strawberries
Ingredients:
Dough: 150 g flour, 150 g sugar, 6 eggs, 50 g cocoa powder. Cream: 200 ml cream, 60 g sugar, 10 g gelatin, 150 g pureed strawberries. Decoration: cream flowers. Grease and coat molds: butter and breadcrumbs.
Preparation:
Beat the eggs with sugar, add sifted flour and cocoa powder to the resulting mixture and stir until smooth. Place the biscuit dough in a square pan, greased with a thin layer of butter and sprinkled with breadcrumbs, and place in an oven preheated to 200–220 °C for 25–35 minutes. Cool the finished biscuit.
Prepare the cream: beat eggs with cream and sugar, add gelatin previously diluted in warm water to the resulting mass and mix well. Divide the cream into two parts, add pureed strawberries to one of them and beat again.
Cut the biscuit lengthwise into two parts. Spread one of them with cream and strawberries and cover with the other half on top. Coat the entire top and side surfaces of the product with cream.
Using a sharp knife, carefully cut the prepared sponge cake into six equal rectangular pieces.
Using a special pastry bag or syringe, pipe cream leaves and rosebuds onto the surface of each cake.
Puff pastry puffs with chocolate inside
Puff pastries with poppy seeds and chocolate spread
Ingredients:
- 400 g instant puff pastry
- 100 g each of poppy seeds, peeled walnut kernels, plum jam
- 50 g each butter, chocolate spread
- 1 egg
Preparation:
Roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut into small circles using a round cutter. Sprinkle half of the circles with poppy seeds, the other half with walnuts. Then brush the pieces with a lightly beaten egg, place in a baking dish greased with butter, and bake in an oven preheated to 250 °C for 30 minutes.
Cool the finished puff pastry chocolate puffs, spread half of them with plum jam, place the remaining half of the circles on top and brush with melted chocolate paste.
Bananas in puff pastry with chocolate (2 options)
Bananas in puff pastry with chocolate
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry (ready frozen) - 500 g
- Bananas - 4 pcs (peeled)
- Sugar or powdered sugar - 2-3 tbsp
- A little oil (to grease the pan or pan)
- For impregnation: chocolate - 2 tbsp. spoons or other additives (to taste) - nuts, dried fruits, syrups, jams, creams, etc.
Preparation:
Option 1.
Defrost the dough, cut into long strips 1.5 - 2.5 cm wide. Wrap banana in strips of dough, place on a baking sheet, greased with butter, sprinkle with sugar. Bake bananas in puff pastry with chocolate in a preheated oven for 10 - 20 minutes (temperature 200-220 º C) or until the top crust is lightly browned. Baking time depends on your oven and the thickness of the dough. Watch carefully so that the dough does not burn.
Option 2.
Cut the dough into squares, the side of which is equal to the length of the banana. Sprinkle with sugar, place a banana and a piece of chocolate on one half of the square, cover the other. Sprinkle with sugar and bake as in the first option. Serve hot or cold.
As you can see in the photo, according to this recipe, bananas in puff pastry with chocolate can be topped with any sweet cream - chocolate, condensed milk, syrup, jam, or decorated with fruit:
Recipe for braided puff pastry with chocolate
Puff pastry braid with chocolate
For a chocolate puff pastry braid you will need:
- puff pastry
- chocolate bar
- 1 egg
- chopped nuts
Preparation:
Place baking paper on the work surface and puff pastry on it. Place the chocolate bar exactly in the middle of the puff layer. Make cuts in the dough approximately 2 cm wide. Start from the chocolate bar towards the edge of the dough, cutting slightly along the bias. It is most convenient to do this with a pizza knife, but a regular knife will work too. Make the same cuts on the other side. Now start folding the resulting cut parts of the dough onto the chocolate bar crosswise, braiding it. Using the remaining dough, carefully but gently close the ends of the braided chocolate puff pastry on both sides. Brush the resulting pie evenly with egg. Now sprinkle the braid with nuts if you like. When finished, place the braid in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. In 20-25 minutes, your puff pastry braid with chocolate is ready!
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