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Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards

Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards are tasty, quick and easy bites, perfect to serve as an appetizer during the Christmas holidays.
Recipe Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 10 minutes
  • Cooking 15 minutes
  • Servings for 6 people

Christmas Tree Place Cards are a tasty bite, perfect to serve as a Christmas Appetizer during the holidays or for a Christmas Aperitivo with friends and coworkers. Eye-catching and full of flavor, these Little Puff Pastry Trees are also quick and easy to make.

Made with Puff Pastry, Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino, both grated, these Cheesy Puff Pastry Christmas Trees will give your table a festive touch with very little effort. They can also be made in a sweet version, for example for an afternoon snack with friends or with the kids.

The Recipe for Christmas Tree Place Cards is one of those recipes that, once tried, will become part of your Christmas menu.

Ingredients for 6 people

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Method

  1. To make the Christmas Tree Place Cards, start by unrolling the puff pastry on the work surface. With a pastry wheel, cut the pastry into strips about 1.5 centimeters (5/8 inch) wide.
    Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards, step 1: puff pastry cut into strips with a pastry wheel
  2. Fold the strips back and forth, making each fold a little wider as you go, until you get the shape of a Christmas tree, then hold everything in place with skewers. Place the trees on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spaced well apart from one another.
    Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards, step 2: pastry strips folded into trees on skewers
  3. Sprinkle with a little Parmigiano and a little Pecorino as you like. If you really love the taste of cheese, feel free to be generous. Bake in a preheated convection oven at 180 °C (350 °F) for about 15 minutes.
    Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards, step 3: the trees sprinkled with grated Parmigiano and pecorino
  4. Meanwhile, make the Parmigiano balls. Take parchment paper and cut out 6 medium squares. On each square, spread 20 grams of Parmigiano evenly, forming a circle about 15 centimeters (6 inches) across.
    Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards, step 4: circles of grated Parmigiano on squares of parchment paper
  5. Microwave for a few seconds, until the Parmigiano starts to melt. Take everything out of the microwave and, using a teaspoon and the parchment paper, shape the cheese into balls and let them cool until they have hardened completely.
    Puff Pastry Christmas Tree Place Cards, step 5: balls shaped from the melted Parmigiano
  6. Once the balls have hardened completely, remove the parchment paper. Take the puff pastry trees out of the oven and stick the skewer into the Parmigiano balls. At this point the Christmas Tree Place Cards are ready to be set on the plates. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!

Variations and Alternatives

If you like, you can also make sweet Christmas Tree Place Cards: to do so, simply sprinkle them with brown sugar instead of the grated cheeses and set them on a candy base.

Tips

If you want to make bigger Christmas Tree Place Cards, remember that you will also need to make the Parmigiano ball at the base bigger: the ball must always weigh more than the tree, otherwise it will tip over.

Storage

It’s rare for Christmas Tree Place Cards to be left over, but if they are, you can keep them for a day in an airtight container.

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