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  • Serves 12
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 7 Ingredients
November 21, 2023

44 Comment

The combination of flakey, crispy pastry and oozy Nutella is truly a joy. This adorable Nutella Christmas Tree is an easy, but impressive and super tasty festive dessert.

But there’s no need to save this for after meals – this would also make an incredibly indulgent Christmas breakfast served with berries. Imagine the kids’ faces when you serve this up!


Ingredients (serves 12)

  • 2 rolls puff pastry
  • 4 apples
  • juice of 1/2 a lemon
  • 20g butter
  • 80g caster sugar
  • 1 egg to brush
  • 180g Nutella

Method

  1. Preheat your oven to 180 ° C. Peel and cut apples into small cubes. Keep the apples in a bowl with the lemon juice.
  2. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat, then add the apples.
  3. Add sugar and cinnamon and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Let cool for 10 minutes. Crush the apples with a spoon, to obtain the consistency of a compote.
  4. Spread the applesauce on the first roll of puff pastry, leaving a 1 cm edge for soldering.
  5. Cover with the second puff pastry. Using a knife, cut the dough into a fir tree. Then cut strips of dough on both sides to get the branches. Carefully wrap each slat in order to twist them.
  6. Gently wrap each slat to twist. Using a pastry brush, brush the whole tree with the beaten egg. Bake the Christmas tree for 25 minutes.
  7. Using a piping bag, add 15g of Nutella® to each branch.

  • I love the look of this Nutella tree.

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  • A recipe only for special occasions. Looks fantastic, so very festive. I would be proud to present this on Christmas Day. I think it would be very popular but not healthy for regular treat. Clear instructions so I think it would be quite easy to do. Certainly worth having a go.

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  • Gosh this is so cute and could easily be altered to include the fams favourite fruits and toppings! So many ideas! Thanks for the inspiration. I am leaning towards a caramel banana and marshmallow version or a Bischoff and white chocolate one. Super yummy and could easily be made with the assistance of little hands

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  • This is a fantastic way to create a dish with some creativity that guest will absolutely love. It would be a dish that really stands out from the normal dishes that a person would bring. It is something you could create with different designs and make all year round depending on the occasion.

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  • Lovely combination of flavours, and it sounds so easy! Perfect festive recipe

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  • This is such a great idea with puff pastry, looks yum.

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  • How creative this is, well done!

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  • Always looking for creative ideas for events. This year we move into our new home and I am scouting for new and creative ideas which are easy to replicate and look impressive. This looks easy and delicious and will wow the guests at Christmas time – thank you for sharing this

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  • This is so amazing. Definitely taking this to the family Christmas function!

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  • With a different shape, this would be a year round dessert.


    • I agree. Why limit it to just Christmas. 😀

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  • A great easy idea, and so versatile!

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  • I’m making this tonight- with minor modifications so it’s not a Christmas tree.

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  • this looks easy to make GF LF too

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  • You had me at nutella. Yumm

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  • My kids would eat this at any time of year.

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  • So festive! Yum!

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  • So beautiful! We tried it on Chrissy and whilst it didn’t look as great as that, it tasted delicious!!

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  • Oh this is gorgeous! I’ve saved it for next Christmas or maybe Christmas in July.

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  • That looks nice and very effective.

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  • Love it. Amazing presentation. And who doesn’t like Nutella.

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