These three pastries from Peggy Thomas are wonderful for December’s savory treats.
Quickly and with little effort, you can get attractive offers.
You can get a cheese tower easier and more wonderful. Cheese lovers will go crazy over this delicacy. No wonder.
The sheets of frozen puff pastry and the baguette straighten nicely. You can make delicious treats from them, such as crostini or date dumplings.
Cheese tower
White cottage cheese
Red mold cheese
Blue cheese
Smoked cheese
Goat cheese
Chili cheddar
1. Choose cheese discs of different sizes and flavors depending on the number of people eating. Assemble the cheeses into a tower according to size, so that the bottom disk is the largest and the top disk is the smallest.
2. The cheese tower should be assembled about an hour before serving, when the aromas of the cheeses come out better.
3. Decorate the tower with, for example, fresh herbs, nuts and fruits.
Orange cinnamon crostini
(for 4–8 people)
1 baguette
200 g of ricotta cheese
0.5 dl of grated parmesan
0.25 tsp of salt
0.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 sprig of fresh rosemary, chopped
0.5 dl orange marmalade
0.5 dl shelled pistachios
1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Grate the parmesan and chop the rosemary.
3. Combine the ricotta, salt and parmesan together. Mix the oil, cinnamon and rosemary.
4. Slice the bread and spoon the oil mixture over the slices. Raise the oven to the middle level and toast the bread for about five minutes.
5. Spoon the ricotta mixture and marmalade over the cooled bread. Finally, sprinkle crushed nuts on top and, if you like, rosemary.
Date cheese dumplings
(12 pcs)
500 g (6 pcs) ready-made sheets of puff pastry
200 g of soft, stoneless dates
100 g of red cheese
100 g of fresh cheese
0.5 tsp of ground black pepper
1 egg
1 tablespoon of crushed pistachios.
1. Raise the sheets of puff pastry to melt and heat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Cube the red cheese. Mix the cheese cubes and black pepper into the cream cheese.
3. Cut 12 rectangular pieces from the melted puff pastry.
4. Spoon the cheese mixture into the center of the dough and place a few dates on top.
5. Moisten the sides of the dough with water and wrap them together. Brush with egg.
6. Sprinkle crushed nuts on top and place in the oven on the middle level for about 15 minutes.
Recipes from Peggy Thomas’ book Peggy’s Little Red Christmas (Readme.fi, 2023)