Experiment with unique sweet flavours to add some excitement to teatime. These coconut raisins chocolate puff wheels are delicate bites with a unique combination of flavours your guests will love.
Instead of preparing your own puff pastry, you can use readymade puff pastry for these bites. The basis of the filling is a creamy custard with added coconut, raisins, cinnamon and finely chopped chocolate. Indeed a match made in heaven!
You can prepare these decadent snacks in less than an hour. When they come out of the oven spreading their seductive flavour, you will not be able to wait to dig in. And after the first bite, you will wish you made a double batch.
Coconut raisins chocolate puff wheels recipe
Course: SnacksCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy
Servings
15
servings
Prep time
10
minutes
Cooking time
40
minutes
Total time
50
minutes
Ingredients
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1 ×400g roll puff pastry
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1 egg beaten
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100 ml ready-made custard
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50 ml coconut
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100 ml raisins
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10 ml brown sugar
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5 ml ground cinnamon
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100g finely chopped chocolate
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with a baking sheet.
- On a lightly floured surface roll the pastry out to 3 mm thick and trim to a 30 cm ×25 cm piece.
- Place it lengthways on a work surface and spread the custard all over, leaving a 1 cm gap along the top of the rectangle.
- Scatter the coconut. raisins, chocolate, sugar and cinnamon over the custard.
- Brush the 1 cm uncovered pastry with the egg.
- Roll the pastry up from the bottom and seal with the brushed piece of pastry. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Cut 1 cm discs with a serrated knife, being careful not to squash the roll.
- Place the discs on the baking tray and bake until golden and cooked through.