Sharing these savory Puff Pastry Surprise Cupcakes during the Christmas holidays cause it’s one of the snacks I love to prepare for New years eve, it’s fast, easy, tasty, easily prepared in advance and most important it goes great with a glass of champagne, wine or beer. I always make this threesome cause their flavors are loved by most people and if you leave out the bacon you even have vegetarian snacks. Excluding the baking time you can make this guys in less than 15 minutes and you can proudly present a self-made treat to yourself and your guests.
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy and wishing you all a better and amazing 2021!
Ingredients
1 roll pre made puff pastry
100 gr goat cheese
50 gr small bacon cubes or ham
Handful blueberries
100 gr mozzarella
2 tsp pesto
3 sundried tomatoes
100 gr ricotta
60 gr cooked spinach
Salt and pepper
Equipment
Oven
Cupcake mold 12 pieces
Cutting board
Preparation
1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 ºC.
2. For the Italian style filling, chop up the mozzarella and the sundried tomatoes, put it in a small bowl, add the pesto, some pepper and mix. Put aside.
3. For the fruity filling, soften up a bit the goat cheese and mix in the bacon or ham cubes and the blueberries. Put aside.
4. For the ricotta filling, season the spinach with salt and pepper, add the ricotta and mix. Put aside.
5. Now slice squares out of your puff pastry according to the size of your cupcake mold (I always advice to test one so you can adjust if needed before cutting the others(, normally 1 sheet puff pastry will do for 12 cupcakes.
6. Butter the mold and place all puff pastry in the mold, keeping the edges opened.
7. Fill 4 with the ricotta mix, 4 with the Italian mix and 4 with the goat cheese mix.
8. Close the puff pastry bringing all corners to the inside.
9. Bake for about 35-40 minutes, until golden.
TIP: The cheeses will tend to expand a bit, don't worry its normal and they will shrink in again when taking them out of the oven.
10. Give them 5 minutes to set and unmold.
11. Serve them hot or cold. Enjoy!
TIP: Even if you want to serve them hot later and reheat them I still advice to unmold them first after baking and put them back in the mold to reheat.
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