Nut Filled Chocolate Pastry
Chocolate bar and cashew nuts wrapped in puff pastry and baked till fluffy and golden
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 Puff Pastry Sheet
- 1 Chocolate Bar
- 8 Cashew nuts crushed, and more to top the pastry
- 1 Whole Egg
- Caster Sugar as needed
Instructions
- 1
To begin making Nut Filled Chocolate Pastry Recipe, preheat your oven at 200 C. prepare a baking sheet lined with a parchment paper.
- 2
Flatten the puff pastry sheet using a rolling pin and give it a rectangular shape.Now place the chocolate bar in the middle of the puff pastry.
- 3
Sprinkle the crushed cashew nuts on top of the chocolate bar.
- 4
Next, make cuts in the pastry sheet using a knife or kitchen scissor for braiding. Pull in alternative free ends of the pastry sheet that is cut slantly. Once the braiding is done, then carefully place the braided pastry of baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- 5
Now take egg + 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl and whisk it using a fork.Apply this egg wash on the top of the pastry using a silicon brush.You can also use milk instead of the egg if you are a vegetarian.
- 6
Bake the pastry for 20 minutes or until it turns golden in colour.
- 7
Dust some powdered sugar on the pastry and serve the warm pastry with a hot cup of tea.
- 8
Optional: Once the pastry is baked, you can stick some cashew nuts on top of it and bake it again for 5 more minutes before cooling it down to room temperature.
- 9
Serve Nut Filled Chocolate Pastry Recipe as a dessert after a dinner of Cheesy Pasta Casserole With Broccoli And Cheese Recipe or along withMaple Roasted Cinnamon Spiced Latte Recipe in the evening.