Strawberry Puff Pastry Christmas Tree

This WW Puff Pastry Christmas Tree is the proper addition to your upcoming vacation occasion! It should absolutely impress all of your company with its festive and distinctive look. The puff pastry dough is formed right into a tree, with twisted strands of pastry which you can pull off. In between the pastry layers is jam or preserves, which isn’t solely scrumptious however provides the tree a pleasant pop of colour. Every serving is 6 WW factors.

The pull-apart Christmas tree is adaptable and might be served in a couple of method. As an example, you may serve it as a candy deal with after a meal. However you may as well serve it as a part of a cheese and charcuterie board! The pastry and jam pair splendidly with numerous kinds of cheese. To make it, your complete course of takes roughly an hour, which is kind of affordable given its uniqueness. It actually appears to be like prefer it takes extra effort than it truly does!

Should you’re in search of totally different snacks to serve with this puff pastry Christmas tree, you may take a look at my snack recipe collection, which has loads of concepts. From homemade Tostitos chips to a crescent roll veggie pizza, there are many incredible occasion meals which can be WW-friendly.

Why You Ought to Strive This Recipe

• It serves a crowd. This puff pastry deal with will serve 15 folks, making it ultimate for vacation gatherings.
• It’s a enjoyable baking undertaking. This recipe is so enjoyable to make! You possibly can form the tree the way you need, make a star for the highest, and even make ornaments when you’ve got any further dough.
• Only a few elements are wanted. This recipe has a brief ingredient checklist, making it simple to buy and prep for the recipe. In reality, should you preserve puff pastry and jam in your home always, you’re already one step forward.

Recipe Overview

• Serving Measurement: 44g
• Variety of Servings: 15
• Time to Cook dinner: 25-Half-hour
• WW Factors Per Recipe: 6 WW factors per serving, 87 for your complete recipe (Click here to view the recipe within the WW app. WW login is required)

Elements in Weight Watchers Puff Pastry Christmas Tree

• 2 sheets puff pastry, thawed
• 6 oz No-sugar-added strawberry preserves/jam (or most popular taste)
• 1 Crushed egg white for brushing
• Elective: powdered sugar or substitute for dusting

Directions for making Weight Watchers Puff Pastry Christmas Tree

1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Roll out each puff pastry sheets on parchment paper to suit your baking sheet (I used an 11×17 pan). Rating every sheet right into a Christmas tree form.

2. If there’s not sufficient dough within the nook, you need to use and flip the scraps to finish the tree form (consult with picture). Make two equivalent bushes with the sheets: reduce one and place it over the opposite to hint the precise dimension.

3. Fill the underside tree with jam, spreading it in a single layer, leaving area across the edges. Place the opposite tree on high. (Lower leftover dough with cookie cutters to make Christmas shapes to bake alongside the tree. You too can make a star or tree trunk like I did). Lower strips down both sides and twist the flaps to create the branches.

4. Brush the dough with crushed egg white. Bake the Christmas tree and another unfastened shapes for 25-Half-hour or till totally baked and golden brown. The branches will pull off like pull-apart bread.

Variations and Substitutions

• Puff Pastry Christmas Tree with Nutella: As an alternative of utilizing jam, you may unfold Nutella between the 2 layers of the pastry. This can give the dessert a chocolatey twist! Nonetheless, you will want to regulate the Weight Watchers factors within the recipe builder.
• Savory Puff Pastry Christmas Tree: you may as well put a layer of cream cheese or one other cheese sort within the puff pastry to make it savory as an alternative. Make a ham and cheese model by placing ham slices inside too!
• Beautify the Tree: After baking, you may adorn the tree. I solely put just a few little candies on it, however you may add sweet canes, recent basil, little berries, or no matter you want.
• Mini Christmas Timber: Create two smaller bushes by chopping every sheet in half widthwise and stacking the halves after shaping. You possibly can typically comply with the identical directions however make the bushes smaller and use numerous fillings for them.

Ideas and Tips for Making Weight Watchers Puff Pastry Christmas Tree

• It’s okay if among the jam melts out of the pastry; most of it can caramelize a bit and nonetheless follow the pastry. Simply be sure that to loosen it from the parchment when it comes out of the oven to forestall sticking.
• The precise form of the Christmas tree will differ, however a very powerful factor is that you simply use all scraps or subtract the load of any dough you don’t use in order that the WW factors are correct.
• You need to use any taste of jam that you simply like. A purple jam is most popular, however even grape or other forms will work.
• Should you make a star and put jam on it, as proven within the pictures, be sure that to shut the seam of the star so all the jam doesn’t leak out.

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