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This delightful Nutella Christmas Tree is an impressive festive treat with store-bought puff pastry and hazelnut spread.
It comes together pretty quickly and doesn’t require you to twist any strands like most puff pastry trees. This means more Nutella is left inside the pastry and not on your hands – win-win.
Recipe Tip
Use any chocolate or hazelnut spread, or swap for jam, nut butter, or custard. And if you want a savory tree instead, try pesto and Parmesan.
Serve this fun recipe as an easy dessert or snack. Dust with icing sugar and a quick piping of dark chocolate. You can even add chocolate button ‘lights.’ Yum!
Nutella Christmas Tree Ingredients
- Puff pastry sheets: You’ll need two rectangular sheets. You can find them in the fridge or freezer section.
- Nutella: Or a similar sweet hazelnut or chocolate spread.
- Dark chocolate: I use a chocolate with 55% cocoa solids.
- Egg: Beat together to brush the pastry tree. Helps achieve a golden-brown finish.
- Sugars: You’ll need both pearl sugar to add crunch and sweetness prior to baking, and powdered sugar to dust over the tree after baking. You can omit either.
How to Make Nutella Christmas Tree
- Prepare the pastry: Preheat the oven to 200°C (392°F). Spread out the rectangular pastry and top it with Nutella. Top it with another sheet.
- Prepare the tree: Cut the pastry into sections (resembling a Christmas tree shape), and fold over the corners of each section. Shape the star and the gifts. Brush with egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
- Bake the tree for about 15 minutes.
- Final touches: Dust with powdered sugar. Melt the dark chocolate and pipe the swirl details. Serve.
Possible Variations
- Puff pastry: Swap for crescent dough, phyllo, or pizza dough.
- Nutella: Sweet alternatives include strawberry jam, peanut butter, and dulce de leche for caramel flavor. Try pesto, olive tapenade, or cream cheese if you prefer savory options.
- Dark chocolate: Any chocolate will work.
- Toppings: Add chopped nuts, sprinkles, or colored chocolate buttons (to mimic Christmas lights) after baking.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.
FAQs
Yes, you can shape the tree up to 1 day in advance, but wait to bake and decorate it until an hour or two before you want to serve it.
Use regular cane sugar, white sugar, or omit.
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Nutella Christmas Tree
Ingredients
- 500 grams puff pastry, rectangular-shaped
- 8 tablespoons Nutella
- 100 grams dark chocolate
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon pearl sugar
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar, (powdered sugar)
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 200°C / 392°F.
- Roll out one puff pastry sheet on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Spread the Nutella on top of the pastry with a palette knife or the back of a spoon.
- Top with the second pastry sheet.
- Pat the two sheets together.
- Cut a symmetrical indent at the bottom to make the tree trunk (save these pieces for the presents).
- Trim two 1 cm thick strips into the dough at the top, keeping the middle intact.
- Cut a triangular shape underneath the middle of the top strips and the outer trunk indent.
- Trim five sections along the edge of the tree to each side. Leave the section above the tree trunk intact.
- Fold over the top corners of each section.
- Shape the star out of the top strips.
- Make the square presents using the trimmed-off pastry. You can cut thin pieces to make ribbons and bows (press these into the squares) or leave the presents plain.
- Arrange the gifts underneath the tree.
- Beat the egg in a small bowl. Brush the pastry with egg wash. Top with pearl sugar.
- Bake the tree in a 200°C / 392°F oven for approximately 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Dust with powdered sugar, once cool.
- Melt the dark chocolate and place it in a piping utensil or bag.
- Pipe a swirled chocolate pattern on top of the tree.
- Allow the chocolate to set.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
