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Pumpkin-shaped Comté pastries

Pumpkin-shaped Comté pastries

  • Starter
  • Halloween
  • Aperitif

Small Comté and sweet paprika pastries decorated as pumpkins for Halloween.

Active time25 min

Cooking20 min

Total45 min

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Ingredients

  • 100 g grated Comté
  • 1 egg
  • 2 g sweet paprika
  • 230 g all-butter puff pastry

Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Cut out pastry discs measuring 6 cm across and reserve the trimmings. Top half of each disc with Comté and paprika, fold over and seal the edges.

    100 g grated Comté
    2 g sweet paprika
    230 g all-butter puff pastry
    • oven
    • pastry cutter
  2. Beat the egg before brushing the pastries. Make small stalks from the trimmings. Use the back of a knife to score shallow grooves and two triangular eyes without cutting all the way through the pastry. Brush with egg.

    1 egg
    • knife
    • pastry brush
    • bowl
    • fork
  3. Bake for 20 minutes until golden. Serve the pastries warm.

    • oven
    • baking tray
    • baking paper

Allergens

  • Eggs
  • Gluten
  • Milk
Sources and credits

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Pumpkin-shaped Comté pastries